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Keen Company Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein today announced Hear/Now: LIVE!, the second season of audio drama, a cross between the old and new - commissioned world premieres presented using the traditional tools of radio broadcasts featuring live foley sound effects and live original music.  

Keen Company will conclude the 2020-’21 Season with an all-star benefit broadcast of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar: The Clever Chemist Matter by Jack Johnstone, starring Tony, Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning actor Santino Fontana.

Dark and wintry days, cold nights: February is the perfect time to cuddle up with some so-called chiller theater. Here are some recommendations for theater productions you can watch from

Theater to Stream: Shakespeare Villains and Hot-Tub Dreams Patrick Page looks at bad guys, Steven Carl McCasland gives us literary women, and Jill Sobule mines her own history, including the dreaded seventh grade. A still from “The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral,” from The Neo-Futurists, a Chicago performing-arts group. Credit...via The Neo-Futurists Feb. 3, 2021 Dark and wintry days, cold nights: February is the perfect time to cuddle up with some so-called chiller theater. Image Toxic square...

(handout image) Sorry, Wrong Number, taking place Monday, February 15 at 7pm ET. Directed by Jonathan Silverstein and featuring live foley effects by Nick Abeel, the production will be led by Marsha Mason, Heidi Armbruster, Chuck Cooper, Jasminn Johnson, and Matt Saldivar. The evening will also include a "surprise pre-show" and a talkback following the performance. First presented in 1943 with Agnes Moorehead as the lead, Sorry, Wrong Number tells the story of a woman who accidentally overhea...