Date of issuance: April 17, 2008008

Summary: Hubris Productions announces its third season
(08/09), opening with Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy at the Greenhouse Theater at Victory Gardens, followed by Red Noses by Peter Barnes and Bent by Martin Sherman.

Hubris Productions announces their 2008-09 season, opening with Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award-winning Torch Song Trilogy at the Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater. Guest Artist Andrew Hobgood, assisted by Gary Tiedemann, directs Ben Osbun, Evan Linder, Mary Hollis Inboden, Quinn White, Ryan Jarosch, and Susan Adler in this touching story of love, loss and hope. In Winter/Spring 2009, company member Patricia Savieo directs Red Noses by Peter Barnes. Originally written about the Black Plague, Red Noses has been pulled out of the Fourteenth Century and riddled with a generic pandemic to reflect more modern concerns—and the reality that we are not so far removed from such a fate as we like to think. This comedy follows the very optimistic Father Flote and his company of "Christ’s Clowns" as they spread joy in a time of disaster. Closing the season will be the annual Pride show (Summer 2009), Martin Sherman’s Bent, a sobering reminder of what was endured in the Nazi concentration camps. Location and dates will be announced later in the season.

In keeping with its tradition of making charitable contributions from each show to other progressive non-profits, three organizations have been selected to receive donations in the upcoming season. For Torch Song Trilogy, Hubris Productions will make a donation to PFLAG Chicago. For Red Noses, a contribution will be made to The University of Chicago Cancer Research Center; and for Bent, a donation will be made to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The company makes a donation directly from the proceeds of each production, but also invites audiences to join in and contribute as well.

From humble beginnings in the summer of 2005, Hubris Productions has demonstrated remarkable and consistent growth. The company has expanded from just three members to a core of ten, all of whom contribute their unique talents to the company's shared vision of tolerance, creative exploration and responsibility to the community where we live.