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A LIVE Old Time Holiday Radio Show!

Step Back Into a 1940s Holiday Broadcast – Live!
Parker Players Theater Company invites you to be part of the studio audience for two classic holiday radio comedies brought to life on stage:
• Fibber McGee & Molly: Fibber Paints a Christmas Tree
• The Jack Benny Program: Jack Benny Buys Shoelaces for Don
With a spectacular cast, authentic live sound effects, and our theater transformed into a vintage radio studio, you’ll laugh, cheer, and experience the magic of being in the action—just like they did in the golden age of radio.

A Christmas Story, The Musical

The classic,  heartwarming tale about young Ralphie Parker’s quest for a Red Ryder BB gun. With catchy songs, humor, and holiday cheer, it captures childhood dreams, family chaos, and the magic of Christmas traditions.

Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol

Manual Cinema’s awe-inspiring, one-of-a-kind rendition of the Dickens classic returns to the Studebaker Theater this holiday season!

That’s Weird, Grandma: Holiday Party!

That’s Weird, Grandma: Holiday Party! 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 holiday-inspired stories that resonate with adults while celebrating the imaginations of young people.