James Beard Award-winning Chef Rick Bayless and Windy Metropolis Playhouse Inventive Director Amy Rubenstein immediately introduced that their hit immersive manufacturing, “A Recipe For Catastrophe,” should shut Sunday, April 24 on the Membership Stage at Petterino’s (150 N Dearborn). “A Recipe For Catastrophe” is written by Bayless, Rubenstein and Windy Metropolis Playhouse Affiliate Inventive Director Carl Menninger and directed by Jeff Award Winner David H. Bell.
The absolutely immersive occasion offers audiences the chance to pattern meals designed by Bayless, with cocktails and wine pairings by Lanie Bayless because the hilarity unfolds. Primarily based on Bayless’ real-life experiences, the story is about throughout influencer night time at The Contumacious Pig, one of many metropolis’s hottest eating places, when every thing that would probably go unsuitable happens. From a sick head chef and surprising well being inspector to a spy from a competing restaurant and the bus boy hiding a wild pig, the night is nothing in need of hilariously chaotic.
Along with Bayless as Jude and Rubenstein as Shelley for choose performances, the common forged of a “A Recipe for Catastrophe” consists of Emma Jo Boyden as Shelley, Scott Duff as Clyde, Sam Linda as Iggy, Ian Maryfield as Boris, Ben Web page as Jude, Desiree Staples as Loreen, Darian Tene as Kiki and Daniel Trinidad as Felix. The inventive crew for the present consists of director David H. Bell who acquired a Jeff Award for his route of Windy Metropolis Playhouse’s smash hit “Southern Gothic,” set designer William Boles, who acquired a Jeff Award for his design of Windy Metropolis Playhouse’s “The Boys within the Band” and costume designer Uriel Gomez who was nominated for a Jeff Award for his work on the identical manufacturing. Rounding out the inventive crew is lighting designer Jared Gooding, sound designer Willow James and properties designer Caitlin McCarthy.
For a full listing of the ultimate efficiency dates, please click on here. Restricted to 80 company per efficiency, tickets to “A Recipe for Catastrophe,” which embody six bite-size tastings and three cocktail and wine samplings are on sale now, with common and VIP choices out there. The VIP expertise features a pre-show charcuterie board and cocktail, premium seating and a present bag together with dessert, a celebration favor and a signed photograph of Chef Rick Bayless and the forged.
“A Recipe for Catastrophe” is now open via April 24 on the Membership Stage at Petterino’s, situated at 150 N Dearborn. For tickets and extra data, please go to www.windycityplayhouse.com.
Most individuals know Rick Bayless from profitable the title of Bravo’s “High Chef Masters.” His extremely rated public tv collection, “Mexico: One Plate at a Time,” is broadcast coast to coast and his 9 cookbooks have earned a number of high-profile accolades.
Situated in Chicago, Rick’s Frontera Grill and Topolobampo have every acquired the “Excellent Restaurant of the Yr” designation from the James Beard Basis – an unprecedented feat for side-by-side eating places. His wildly in style fast-casual Xoco debuted in 2009 and Tortas Frontera at Chicago’s O’Hare airport has modified the face of airport eating. In 2016, he opened Frontera Cocina in Disney Springs. In 2018, Rick expanded his Clark Avenue eating places by opening Bar Sótano, a Oaxacan-inspired mezcal bar with trendy Mexican bar meals. Tortazo, Rick’s new fast-casual idea, debuted in 2020 in Chicago’s iconic Willis Tower, with plans to open an outpost in New York Metropolis in fall 2021.
In 2012 and once more in 2014, Rick joined forces with Lookingglass Theatre Firm to create “Cascabel,” the story of meals’s capability to alter lives. The viewers for “Cascabel” shared a meal with the forged of actors, musicians, singers and circus performers as the story of unrequited love resolved into magical magnificence.
All the time a philanthropist, Rick and his workers established the Frontera Farmer Basis in 2003 to assist small Midwestern farms. To this point, the Basis has awarded almost 200 grants totaling almost $3 million. He additionally launched the Frontera Scholarship, a culinary faculty scholarship for Mexican-American college students in Chicago. In 2019, Rick based Affect Culinary Coaching, a restaurant job readiness program on the town’s west aspect. And in 2017 he established the Bayless Household Basis to assist the town’s vibrant theater scene with grants to Chicago theater corporations totaling $1.5 million thus far.
The Authorities of Mexico has bestowed on Rick the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle-the highest ornament bestowed on foreigners whose work has benefitted Mexico and its individuals.
Windy Metropolis Playhouse is an expert theater and 501(c)(3) nonprofit group, situated on Chicago’s northwest aspect. Premiering in March of 2015 with a mission to current modern, related, and method artwork, the Playhouse has shortly grow to be a mainstay of the Chicago theater scene. In 2018, its runaway hit, the immersive “Southern Gothic” solidified the Playhouse as the primary alternative in Chicago theater for one-of-a-kind viewers expertise. “Expertise pushed. Viewers first.”
For extra data, go to WindyCityPlayhouse.com.
