Who: The Free Associates  

What: BS - The Free Associates Theatre Company announces the return of BS creator and original director Mark Gagné to direct the eighth year of its long-running hit BS. BS is the affectionately abridged appellation for Benevolent Saints Hospital, and is an unscripted parody of the NBC medical drama 'ER.' As NBC has slowly killed off Dr. Mark Green (actor Anthony Edwards), so will BS spend the month of July offing his doppelganger, Dr. Matt Breen, in a 'very special disease of the week'-style format. Dr. Breen will have encounters with people from his past who affected him, including his ex-wife Judy (Jenn on 'ER'), his daughter Becky (Rachel on 'ER'), and Nurse Laurel Carroway (Nurse Hathaway on 'ER'), as he faces mortality of his terminal canker sore.

Improvanov: Anton Chekhov Unscripted. Having taken on American playwrights from Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill to David Mamet and English writers such as Shakespeare and the Brontë sisters, TFATC turn their attention eastward to Russia, circa 1890, to send-up Chekhov, a writer whose work influenced Williams and countless others. The fading aristocracy, unrequited love, boredom and isolation of country life and the desire to work, work, work are perfect fodder for parody in the fine tradition of "Cast on a Hot Tin Roof", "Chancing at Lunacy" and "Blithering Heights."

When: B. S. - Fridays at 7:30pm, Saturdays at 7:30 and 9:30 pm

Improvanov - Fridays at 9:30pm, Sundays at 3 pm thru 12/1

Where: The Royal George Theatre Center, 1641 N. Halsted St., Chicago

Price: $20

Reservations & Info: 773.296.0541

Website: www.thefreeassociates.com