Silent Auction at the Clockwork Nightmare Benefit

Seriously...this stuff is amazing.  If you guys don't show up and bid on this stuff...I will be buying ALL OF IT myself.

Here are a few of the wonderful items or vendors who have been so generous!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/54784310/patient-spider-cutout-dark-matter

http://www.etsy.com/shop/poppyandfern

http://www.wildeimagination.com/default.aspx?skinid=5

http://www.etsy.com/shop/isette

http://www.etsy.com/shop/AbbotsHollowStudios

WildClaw Fall Preview: Steampunk Benefit, Life of Death, Deathscribe 2012

So this thing is happening...and we are jazzed.  Tickets have gone live.  There is lots of chatter and excitement. Beer sponsored by the boys over at DryHop Chicago!  KBH Media is making the Fear Box even more fearier.  Have you started picking out your outfit yet?  Do you have no idea what Dark Steampunk is?  Well fear not...soon you will be bombarded with posts and information.  Get your goggles on kids...it is going to be a swell fall for the fiends and friends of WildClaw!

Invite everyone you know.

Ms. Michaela (that is Ms. Lulu Boilermaker to you) and I checked out the most recent event thrown by the fine fellows and ladies over at Steampunk Chicago.  Great fun was had by all.  We played lawn tennis America....or maybe it was croquet?  Something with mallets.  Of course we both noticed what fine bludgeoning weapons they would make...le sigh.  I highly recommend attending their upcoming events.  You will find many like-minded souls as we did.  Their Clockwork Vaudeville evening is happening on September 14th...it seems a splendid steampunk double-feature weekend to me?

Rehearsals and design meetings are well underway for The Life of Death opening in early October.  Get your tickets now.  It is going to be crazy good. 

Then the greatest gift of all comes in December....the Fifth Annual Deathscribe Festival of Horror Radio Plays at the Mayne Stage on December 3rd.  We are reading your creepy weird submissions right now and once again, we thank you from the bottoms of our filthy hearts for sharing your creative weirdness with us.

We Bleed for You...Donate Today!

So if you are like me, your inbox and mailbox has been flooded with last minute requests to donate the pathetic remains of your fatigued post-holiday life-savings.  I caved last night and sent a sad little amount to the Anti-Cruelty Society of Chicago and the Chicago Greater Food Bank.  Worthy causes indeed.  But I also looked back and made sure I gave a little money over the year to the theaters in town whose art makes my life worth living.  It can be easy to overlook how important your charitable contribution to theater can be...we don't have heart-breaking photos of abandoned animals with the sad eyes...we are not saving starving people.  We are a horror theatre company...which seems silly when compared with the big world issues.

But what WildClaw brings to the table does make a difference.  Entertainment.  Imagination.  Creation.  Metamorphosis.  All wrapped up in a spooky, possibly oozing package.

We bring you a thrill that you cannot get in a movie theatre.  We bring you talented artists joining together in a crazed zombie Voltron to deliver something unique:  Horror on the Stage.

Now here's the ask....we desperately need you to make that happen.  Donate a little or a lot today.  It is easy.  I promise...an in return, WildClaw will bleed for you.  How many charities can make that promise?

In 2012, we will be doing monstrous things:  Kill Me opening February and a Spring Benefit Party. We plan to do some damage at C2E2 as well. Our Masque of the Red Death event will be back followed by  an epic world premiere in the Fall.  Then we start off the holidays with our Fifth Annual Deathscribe Event on the first monday of December.  Bigger. Badder.  Bloodier.  Bring it on.

So give a little or a lot.  $10 buys makeup for one actor.  $75 pays for some postcards.  $150 buys five gallons of stage blood.  $600 pays for a designer.  $1000 covers our rehearsal space for a month.  Every bit helps.

So shake your penny jar and check the couch cushions for your missing pocket change.  We will take it.  And thanks for making our 2011 an amazing year for Wildclaw.  

WildClaw Theatre.  Storytelling is in our Blood.

-Aly Amidei
Artistic Director...  

Frankenstein Necklaces from Von Erickson's Lab! Get em at our Benefit!

Von Erickson's Lab has sent along several awesome necklaces for our Red Death Benefit!  These babies are so fun.  Check them out at his etsy store and give the gift of horror while supporting fantastic independent crafters!  I love the drippy bloody one myself!

Red Death Silent Auction Haul Continues!- Tonner Vampire Diaries!

The goodies for our  Masque of the Red Death silent auction have become EPIC.  I got a huge box from Tonner Doll Company with three shiny new character figures from their Vampire Diaries line!  So come to our benefit and take home your very own Damon, Stefan, and Elena. 

So buy your tickets to this killer party, kick your Halloween off in style, and feed your horror collectible urges.

Sazon Chicago bringing you good spooky Red Death Benefit food...

Our Red Death Benefit is fast approaching (get your tickets!!!!). Sazon Chicago is doing the food...and let me tell you it's going to be tasty....and some of it even tentacle-y. No fooling! They are also rocking out our silent auction with a gift certificate to their Sazon Light meal plan!

What to wear to our Benefit, hmm? Groupon for Chicago Costume Today!

Wondering what to wear to our Masque of the Red Death benefit...how about a mask? I know, a shocking leap of logic...

$15 for $30 Worth of Costumes and Accessories from Chicago Costume http://www.groupon.com/deals/chicago-costume-1?utm_campaign=VisitorReferral&utm_medium=email&utm_source=anonymous

Awesome horror posters to replace all those crappy Klimt prints from college...Artwork by Vlad!.

You know you had (have) them up...and Van Gogh's starry night.  Or that one with the two people kissing in the rain...shudder.

Artwork by Vlad has donated a super sexy Poe Poster for our upcoming Masque of the Red Death Benefit Gala.  You should check both Vlad's Etsy store and our Gala out!

Steampunktopus!

Etsy crafter extraordinaire Donna the Dead has made us some awesome swag for the upcoming Masque of the Red Death Benefit.  You will want you tickets now...buy them.  Also, check out Donna's amazing items for sale on her etsy page.  I am very fond of the Steampunk Octopus...give the gift of hand-crafted  horror this year!