This third annual showcase of one-person performances, featuring more than 30 pieces, runs through 10/10 at the Athenaeum Theatre, third-floor studio, 2936 N. Southport. Tickets are $15 per show; “all access” passes cost $90. Tickets can be purchased through Ticketmaster by calling 312-902-1500 or logging on to www.ticketmaster.com; single-show tickets are also available at the door. For more infor-mation call 312-371-4476 or see www.singlefilechicago.com. Following is the schedule through 9/26; a complete schedule is available online at www.chicagoreader.com.
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Holly Bass uses “comedy, monologues, lip-synching, and musical dance sequences” to explore her move from a conservative suburban Baptist background to New York’s gay nightclub scene in Diary of a Baby Diva. Slam poet Al Letson’s Essential Personnel is a “journey through the dark side of the American landscape” told through the lives of eight characters. 7:30 PM
FRIDAY 17
Seth Weitberg’s The John Doe Project invites the audience to “revel in the world of quirks and insecurities that we all have.” Local improviser Andy Eninger’s The Last Castrato is a new scripted solo work. 7:30 PM
Laurel Coppock ponders desire in Grasp, and Ali Davis’s True Porn Clerk Stories continues the theme. 2 PM
THURSDAY 23
Jamie Black’s Living Inside Myself recounts his experiences as a female-to-male transsexual. Black is brave to expose his experience onstage, but the show flounders. It seems he wants to cover his whole life, and that means skating on the surface of emotion rather than delving deeply into four or five stories. (JV) Elizabeth Whitney’s Pop Culture Princess is a “campy journey through our collective popular culture unconscious.” See listing for Thu 9/23 for information on Debutante Balls. 7:30 PM
