Trap Door Theatre

Upcoming Events

A Devil Comes to Town – Presented with the Trap Open Series
Spooky Season
Runs Nov 06Nov 22, 2025

Trap Door Theatre’s Trap Open Series Presents

A Devil Comes to Town
Based on the Novel by Paolo Maurensig

Adapted and Directed by Jeremy Ohringer

Running November 6th-22nd, 2025

In a town obsessed …

1655 W. Cortland
Chicago IL 60622
773-384-0494
“No other theater can consistently suspend reality to create overwhelming and oftentimes-otherworldly atmosphere, usually before the action or dialogue even begins, like Trap Door Theatre. To say that they are the foremost purveyors avant-garde theater in Chicago is to understate this portal to alternate realms. Hidden down a narrow walkway, next to a bar, behind a restaurant, on a side street in Bucktown is a black trap door that opens into the extremes of theatrical imagination. You could drive by it and easily miss this purgatorial paradise of the sublime surreal,” Venus Zarris, Chicago Stage Review