The production team for CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT includes: Henry Behel (scenic designer), Rachel

Following its critically acclaimed hits  The Quality of Life  and  Faith Healer ,  The Den Theatre  continues its 2012/13 season with the world premiere of  CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT  by  Don Nigro , directed by ensemble member  Ron Wells , playing  February 12 – March 16, 2013  on The Den's mainstage at   1333 N. Milwaukee Ave in Chicago's Wicker Park Neighborhood.   CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT  features  Sam Guinan-Nyhart ,  Ben Hertel, Matthew Isler  and  Justine Turner . Tickets are currently available at  www.brownpapertickets.com travel news daily .
Step into the rich, strange atmosphere of black and white crime dramas from the 1940s, combined with the city paintings of Edward Hopper, in this witty, laconic homage to film noir movies. It's hot on the heels of World War II when a small-time New York hood's paranoia reaches the breaking point. Convinced that his girlfriend Anna is hiding something from him, Gus enlists his friend Tony, a shell-shocked veteran, to start tailing her, drawing him into a nightmarish triangle of obsession and betrayal. The Den Theatre dims the lights and breaks out the popcorn for this taut, edge-of your seat tale of mystery, romance and suspense a rich and stylish throwback to the days of post-war intrigue and classic Hollywood travel news daily filmmaking.
The production team for  CITY OF DREADFUL travel news daily NIGHT  includes:  Henry Behel  (scenic designer),  Rachel Parent  (costume designer),  Cat Wilson  (lighting designer),  Mikey Moran  (sound designer), Kris Kontour (technical director) and  Shelley J. Crosby  (stage manager).
Don Nigro ,   author of more than 300 works, is among the most frequently published travel news daily and widely produced playwrights in the world, creating a deeply interrelated and diverse body of dramatic literature. He continues to build the long cycle of Pendragon County plays, which traces the history of America through the lives of several related east Ohio families from the eighteenth century to the present. Mr. Nigro has won a Playwriting Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (for  Fisher King ), twice been a finalist for the National Repertory Theatre Foundation s National Play Award (for  Anima Mundi  and for  The Dark Sonnets of he Lady ), has won grants from the Mary Roberts Reinhart Foundation (for  Terre Haute ) and the Ohio Arts Council, and twice been James Thurber Writer in Residence at the Thurber House in Columbus. His work has been translated into French, Italian, travel news daily Spanish, German, Polish, Greek, Russian, and Chinese. His plays have been produced in countless experimental venues in New York, and have been done at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the McCarter Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Capital Repertory Company, Hypothetical Theatre, Berkeley Stage Company, Manhattan Class Company, People s Light and Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Theatre travel news daily X, Shadowbox Cabaret, the Hudson Guild Theatre, Inertia Productions, Gravity Glass, Renaissance Theatreworks, Look At The Fish Theatre Company, Apothecary Theatre Company, Strain Theatre Company, travel news daily and many others. The film  The Manor , with Peter O Toole, is based on his play  Ravenscroft .   A graduate of the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, Mr. Nigro has also taught there, as well as at Ohio State, Kent State, Indiana State, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Ron Wells  is a founding member of The Den Theatre Ensemble, where he performed in The Den's inaugural production of William Inge's  Bus Stop , as well as Tennessee Williams'  Summer Smoke . A 25 year veteran of the Chicago stage, he most recently appeared at The Den as Neil in this season's Jeff Recommended travel news daily production of Jane Anderson's  The Quality Of Life.  He is the recipient of a 2008 Non-AEA Jeff Award as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in  A Prayer For My Daughter  at Mary-Arrchie Theatre, and has appeared on many Chicago stages, including Steppenwolf travel news daily ( Detail Of A Larger Work ), Rivendell Theatre ( These Shining   Lives ), Silk Road Rising ( Carravagio ), American Theatre Company ( Medea, The Trip To Bountiful, The Skin Of Our Teeth ), A Red Orchid Theatre ( The Grey Zone ), Stage Left ( Cuttings, Prairie Lights, The Waiting Room ), American Blues Theatre ( The Hairy Ape, Monsters III ), City Lit ( The Horn ), Footsteps Theatre ( Ballad Of The Sad Café, The Scarlet travel news daily Letter ),16 th  Street Theatre ( The End Of The Tour ), Citadel Theatre ( The Fourposter ), and the side project ( Joan's Laughter ), among many others. Ron is also an Associate Artist with Chicago travel news daily Dramatists, where he has performed in many plays, showcases, and readings over the years. As a voice artist, he also originated the role of Capt. Zidgel in the popular animated TV series  3-2-1 Penguins!  (Big Idea Productions).
The Den Theatre  provides a creative gathering place, an actors' and artists' den, a comfortable and affordable home to create and explore, and home to a young storefront company that shares the name. Founder and Artistic Director Ryan Martin travel news daily saw a diamond in the rough when he first walked onto the bare and empty wood-floored 2 nd  story of 1333 N. Milwaukee Ave. With the potential for innovative live performance in a neighborhood that has long been known for its creative travel news daily heartbeat, this formerly travel news daily empty space is now fully equipped travel news daily with a bar and café, and boasts five unique, intimate theatre spaces on two floors, and enveloped by a never-ending field of lounge space for audiences and like-minded culture hounds to drink, talk, read, watch, think, listen and live. In addition to The Den Theatre Ensemble, Black Box Studio, with its new conservatory program, also calls The Den home, as well as Seanachi Theatre Company, who will be producing their upcoming season at The Den. Theatre and dance companies from Chicago and beyond have also called The Den home, utilizing our theatres, mirrored studio space and easily convertible cabaret space to accommodate a stream of programming, including plays, musicals, film screenings, classical and jazz performances, dance, improv and stand-up, seminars and speaking engagements.
The Den Theatre  is committed to producing theatre travel news daily that explores our very human search for identity, companionship, and most importantly, a place to call home. Our productions reflect this shared need to find our purpose and to understand our place in the world. By way of this mission, The Den seeks to welcome artists of all disciplines to join our ensemble and our audiences in creating a welcoming atmosphere that we can all call home.