This morning's NPR Weekend Edition featured a story about the House Theatre of Chicago. Sadly, I don't have time to write up my thoughts, other than to say that it is definitely worth 9 minutes and 15 seconds of your time.

Newer on the block: The House Theatre of Chicago, started by a group of Southern Methodist University grads who came to Chicago six years ago. They had been offered funding in Denver, but they chose to come empty-pocketed to Chicago, simply because of the intensely competitive and supportive theater community.

The troupe's first show was at Halloween 2001: In a borrowed storefront space across from a cemetery, they premiered Death and Harry Houdini — an underground hit, a sold-out run. The Terrible Tragedy of Peter Pan came next, and the House was off and running, always with big shows in small places, with music and dance and battle scenes and actors flying overhead.