Refuge Theatre Project—a company that, among other things, staged High Fidelity: The Musical twice in makeshift record stores and Bare: A Pop Opera in a church sanctuary—will open The Spitfire Grill on Sunday, March 25, at Windy City Cafe, 1062 W. Chicago Ave., according to BroadwayWorld.com.
Christopher Pazdernik, a 2017 Jeff Award winner for his direction of High Fidelity, will helm and choreograph The Spitfire Grill.
The story (based on the 1996 film of the same name that starred Ellen Burstyn and Marcia Gay Harden) concerns Percy, a parolee recently released from prison who relocates to the fictional small town of Gilead, Wisconsin, after seeing pictures of it in an old travel book.
An openly HIV-positive artist, Pazdernik was also a 2016 Windy City Times 30 Under 30 honoree for his contributions to Chicago’s LGBTQ community, and currently serves on the Ambassador Committee for the AIDS Run/Walk Chicago.
See RefugeTheatre.com.