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The School for Scandal


  • Idle Muse Theatre Company 2025 W. Chase Avenue Chicago, IL 60660 United States (map)

Tickets available at the Idle Muse Box Office or by phone at 773.340.9438

Previews March 13 & 14, Opening March 15, Runs Through April 12
THU / FRI / SAT 8PM, SUN 3PM
Special performance WED, 4/9 at 8pm
The Edge Off-Broadway - 1133 W. Catalpa Ave.
Tickets $20-$30, Group Sales Available Upon Request

People Will Talk…

Meet the School for Scandal, a cadre of social elite who invented influencer culture, catfishing and parasocial relationships 300 years before the rise of social media! Idle Muse sends up celebrity society and the idle rich in this fresh cut of Sheridan’s boundary-smashing comedy of manners, which first premiered in 1777. At the School for Scandal, it doesn’t matter what’s being said — as long as you’re the one saying it…


CAST: Elise Soeder (Lady Sneerwell), Boomer Lusink (Morgan/Snake), Eric Duhon (Joseph Surface), Cat Evans (Maria), Mara Kovacevic (Mrs. Candour), Cameron Austin Brown (Sir Benjamin Backbite/Sir Harry Bumper), Elizabeth MacDougald (Mrs. Crabtree), Erik Schnitger (Sir Peter), Andrew Bosworth (Rowley), Caty Gordon (Lady Teazle), Ross Compton (Sir Oliver), Brian Healy (Charles Surface) and Brooks Whitlock (Careless/Servants); with understudies Makenna Van Raalte (U/S Lady Teazle and Maria), Jennifer Mickelson (U/S Mrs. Candour and Mrs. Crabtree), Rick Smith (U/S Sir Oliver), Jacque Bischoff (U/S Lady Sneerwell), Emily Pfriem (U/S Careless and Servants) and Sam Neel (U/S Morgan and Snake).

CREATIVE: Evan Jackson (director and Idle Muse artistic director), Libby Beyreis (assistant director), Lindsey Chidester (stage manager), Beth Bruins (assistant stage manager), Kati Lechner (music director, health and safety officer), Jennifer Mohr (style coach), Mario Mazzetti (dialect coach), Erin Alys (intimacy director), Emma Rund (dramaturg), Jeremiah Barr (master carpenter), Laura Wiley (lighting & projection designer), L.J. Luthringer (sound designer and composer), Tristan Brandon (property designer, health and safety officer), Victoria Jablonski (costume designer), Katie Fletcher (assistant costume designer), Jacque Bischoff (makeup designer), Breezy Snyder (scenic painter) and Michael Dalberg (Idle Muse literary director).

Earlier Event: September 19
The Tempest