Shows At The Whitefire Theatre

***2 Time WINNER*** "BEST OF FEST" How do you explain the unexplainable? Would it concern you or consume you? An award-winning dramady about love & strength, fear & magic, angels, spirits, embracing life and living boldly!

When a viral video of a baby girl being separated from her mother at the southern border moves her, Zoe is inspired to find out how exactly it was that her own brown family was able to immigrate to America. Zoe re-visits events in her own, and her parents life at the intersection of race, identity,

When a young Black college student is killed by police at Peoria University, it is all anyone is talking about, but is anything productive being done? Fit with talk show talking heads and YouTubers with strong opinions, Kevin morphs solo theatre into a a 60/40 live and studio mixed media experience.

177 Lovers and Counting: My Life as a Sex Researcher chronicles the personal and professional sexual explorations of American Anthropologist, Dr. Leanna Wolfe. She reflects on coming of age in the thick of the Feminist and Sexual Revolutions and ultimately studying sexual practices worldwide.

Your favorite Fools present Shakespeare's classic A Midsummer Night's Dream! Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master play a trick on the fa

Join Ester, an omniscient shoe whisperer, as she walks us through a day in her life on Skid Row. In this socially conscious poetic dramedy, Kathryn portrays 19 characters inspired by research and personal interviews with members of the homeless community as well as those who advocate for them.

While eulogizing his father, a son is haunted by defining events in their relationship. He struggles to take on the high-stake question, are we destined to become our fathers or can we transcend the relationship and become our own man? “We are hunting our fate even while being pursued by it.”

Anna, a struggling mother, starts a virtual diary to document her life. Throughout the course of a year, we follow her story of love, heartbreak, and healing. An history of a mother's devotion to her son and herself, "Anna" seeks to answer the question, "How can we move on? And how should we?"

Written and performed by transgender artist Rebecca McGlynn, “Asexuality!” is an autobiographical musical comedy about Rebecca’s pre-transition life. It won Top of the Fringe (Best Overall), Fringe First (Best World Premiere), and the Encore Producers’ Award at the 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

With timeless hits like “I’ll Be Seeing You,” “Embraceable You” and the devastating “Strange Fruit,” delivered with one of the most distinctive voices in the history of music, Billie Holiday has had an incalculable influence on popular music.