This gift certificate entitles the holder to four tickets to any of the remaining shows in the Victory Gardens Theater's 2009-2010 Season:

The Lost Boys of Sudan (March 19-April 25)

Jacob and Jack (May 14-June 20)

A Guide for the Perplexed (July 9-August 15)

The Lost Boys of Sudan.  Three boys meet in the worst way: fleeing the horrors of war. And as they team up on a perilous journey to a refugee camp, they exchange heroic survival stories, song and even laughter. Thus begins an extraordinary passage that eventually takes three boys of the Dinka tribe to, of all places - Fargo, North Dakota - where encountering drought, crocodiles and guerrillas are replaced with malls, video games, and Skittles. From the author of recent VGT hits The Romance of Magno Rubio and Wheatley.

Jacob and Jack.  Jack Shore, a well-known television personality, is appearing for one night only in a tribute to his grandfather, Jacob Shemerinsky, great star of the Yiddish Theatre. Backstage, in his dressing room, Jack confronts his challenges as an actor and as a husband to his co-starring wife. Simultaneously, 75 years in the past, Jacob has problems of his own. Actors play their past and present roles in a dizzying display of life in the theatre in this time-traveling comedic farce, echoing past James Sherman smash comedies like Beau Jest, Jest a Second and Affluenza!

A Guide for the Perplexed.  Kevin Anderson returns for a rare Chicago appearance in A Guide for the Perplexed, the newest play by Ensemble member Joel Drake Johnson, author of Victory Gardens' 2007 smash hit Four Places.
Anderson plays Doug, a newly released petty criminal, forced to take reluctant residence with his sister's husband, their teenage son, and a tank of tropical fish.
The rehabilitation process, both absurdly funny and heartbreakingly sad, is by no means limited to the ex-con. When Doug's female pen pal arrives in hot pursuit bearing strange gifts, the play cuts deep into the characters' mutual feelings of pain, guilt, and fear. Yet hints of a tenuous recovery make Johnson's newest play both hopeful and very real.
Star of stage and screen, Kevin Anderson is a Chicago theater original, perhaps most fondly remembered for his performances in Orphans both at Steppenwolf and on film. In A Guide for the Perplexed, Anderson stars opposite fellow Steppenwolf ensemble member Francis Guinan.