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Rogue Theater to Bring Rascal’s Children’s Theater to The Side Project for Second Season

4-show season will expand Rogers Park’s family-friendly programming to Jarvis Square

CHICAGO – After a successful first season in Andersonville, Rascal Children’s Theater moves north to Rogers Park for its second season, where it will be the resident children’s theater at The Side Project Theater. “It is a perfect fit,” says Rascal Artistic Director Dan Foss. “The Side Project is an intimate space, which works perfectly with our audience-interactive approach to children’s theater.”

Adam Webster, the side project Artistic Director, agrees. “We are excited to have contracted with Rascal Children's Theater to bring theatre for young audiences to the burgeoning area of Jarvis Square, and to expand Rogers Park's family offerings,” Webster said. “We think the intimate confines of the space and the aesthetic of the neighborhood is a great fit for presenting a unique theatregoing experience.”

About the season
Rascal will open their second season with a world premiere audience-interactive mystery. In Guess Who, Gum Shoe? two 10-year-old amateur sleuths, with the audience’s help, assist a neighbor in tracking a thief who has stolen a dangerous alien artifact. Directed by Lucinda Z. Alipio and written by Alipio and Antonio P. Dowd, Guess Who, Gum Shoe? will run October 13 through November 3. 
 
Rascal will then remount audience favorite Cinderella Goes Disco, in which Cinderella is reluctant to go to Prince Charming’s disco party because she won’t fit in. Her Fairy Godmother recounts other fairy tale happy endings (using kids from the audience in pivotal roles) to prove that Cinderella should put on 
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her party dress and take a chance. Artistic Director Dan Foss will again direct Cinderella Goes Disco, which runs November 17 through December 15.

2008 brings two more world premieres. The first, The Red Hood, follows a run-down traveling theatre troupe as they stumble through a production of “Little Red Riding Hood” with a new young leading lady. Written and directed by Jamie DesRocher, the Artistic Director of Point of Contention Theatre Company, The Red Hood will premiere February 9 through March 1, 2008. 

Rounding out Rascal’s second season is a new adaptation of the Scottish folk tale, Tam Lin. Adapted and directed by Megan Faye Schutt, Tam Lin, the story of a girl who must save her true love from the clutches of an evil Fairy Queen, will play March 15 through April 5.

All four productions will play on Saturdays at 1pm at The Side Project, 1439 W. Jarvis Avenue. Tickets are $6 for kids; $11 for adults. Four-show season tickets can be purchased for $20 for children and $30 for adults. For more information or to contact Rascal Children’s Theater, visit www.rascaltheater.com. 

About Rascal Children’s Theater
Rascal Children’s Theater was founded in May of 2006 by Artistic Director Dan Foss as a branch of Rogue Theater.  Rascal’s first season included productions of Ugly Duckling, Cinderella Goes Disco, A Rough Night at the North Pole, and The Princess Who Would Not Marry in addition to two world premieres by Chicago playwrights: a new adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Jessica Hutchinson and Barbara Lhota’s original comedy The Nerdy Girl and the Intergalactic Dog.

About Jarvis Square
The Side Project Theatre marks one of six relatively new food and entertainment entries into the corner of Greenview and Jarvis, dubbed Jarvis Square. The Side Project Theatre – along with Poitin Stil (an Irish bar in the former Charmer’s bar locale), Charmer’s Café (a coffeeshop furnished in the aforementioned bar’s former art deco panelling and columns), Dagel and Beli (steamed sandwiches and deli meats and cheeses) and Gruppo di Amici (a wood-burning pizza kitchen) – will be joined by a fine wine shop, A Taste of Things to Come, this fall.
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