We’re Back! And this time we got a summer extravaganza coming your way!

PlayMakers Laboratory’s is pleased to welcome back its original sketch show That’s Weird, Grandma: Summer Vacation! This family-friendly comedy extravaganza returns for six matinee performances on Saturdays & Sundays July  26 – August 10, 2025 at the Neo-Futurist Theater, 5153 N. Ashland Ave. in Chicago.

Directed by Program Director Brandon Cloyd, That’s Weird, Grandma features adaptations of stories written during PML’s creative writing residencies in Chicago elementary schools. PML’s ensemble of professional actors, comedians and musicians bring the young authors’ stories to life as raucous sketches, songs and movement pieces, performing first for students in their schools and then for the public. These stories – from hilarious dialogues between unlikely characters to poignant pleas for social change, along with some perfect summertime stories – that resonate with adults while celebrating the imaginations of young people.