Prop Thtr Group is bringing two legendary female performance art figures back to Chicago to open and close Estrogen Fest 2003.
Karen Finley performing Shut Up and Love Me! Friday, April 4 & 11 at 10:30 p.m. and Saturday, April 5 & 12 at 11:30 p.m. at the Apollo Theatre, 2540 N. Lincoln. All tickets $29.50, student rush tickets available. Call (773) 935-6100.
Shut Up and Love Me! is 'hypnotic, funny, irritating and finally cathartic, turning embarrassment into a form of joy,' said The New York Times.
Annie Sprinkle will be in town to celebrate Estrogen Fest on Friday, May 9 & Saturday May 10. Show, venue and times TBA.
Call Prop Thtr for more information. 773-348-PROP (7767).
Also: Special meet and greet, Q & A with Karen Finley, discussing her life in art, at the Prop Thtr, 4225 N. Lincoln Ave. (entrance on Hutchinson). Sunday, April 6 at 7 p.m., Tickets $25, call 773-348-PROP (7767) for reservations.
The Storefront Theater located in the Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, 66 E. Randolph St., presents the third annual Estrogen Fest 2003 (in conjunction with Prop Thtr): Female Identity—It's Not Just About The Hair, a festival that includes dozens of local artists and theater companies in three diverse and unprecedented programs of live music, theater, dance, visual art, poetry and performance art, all about female identity.
See www.estrogenfest-chicago.com or www.storefronttheater.org .