For those of you who live in the Chicago area or are visiting soon, you will want to check out Max McLean’s performance of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters.  Below is a promotional article from the Chicago Sun Times discussing a special performance and panel celebrating the 110th anniversary of C.S. Lewis’ birth.  The article can be found by clicking here.

C.S. Lewis’ 110th sparks party, discussion at ‘Screwtape’

November 19, 2008

Celebrate the 110th birthday of author C.S. Lewis at the Dec. 4 performance of the critically acclaimed “The Screwtape Letters,” now playing at the Mercury Theater. A panel of Lewis experts, as well as birthday cake and other refreshments, will be on hand for the 8 p.m. performance.

The panel will include the show’s co-creator and star Max McLean; co-creator and director Jeffrey Fiske; Sandy Rios, host of “The Sandy Rios Show” on Chicago’s Christian Talk Radio, WYLL-AM (1160); Dr. Jerry Root, Lewis scholar, editor of The Quotable Lewis and author of C.S. Lewis and a Problem of Evil; Marjorie Mead, associate director of the Wade Center at Wheaton College, and others.

The Wade Center houses the largest collection in the world of Lewis’ papers and archives (including his writing desk and the wardrobe that inspired the The Chronicles of Narnia).

In addition to the Dec. 4 celebration, the theater is offering special $35 tickets for the first 110 callers who purchase tickets for Thanksgiving weekend performances.

Tickets, $29-$48.50, are available at the theater box office, 3745 N. Southport (773-325-1700), or at Ticketmaster, (312) 902-1500 or Ticketmaster.com.