JUNE TOUR OVER!: Our newest show, "The Daughter of the Father of Time Motion Study" enjoyed an amazing tour this June. It was great! We'll be bringing that play back on the road in January. Until then, we're off enjoying the summer, and will be hitting the road again in early October, with a not-even-made-yet play, "Clam Lump."

In other news, WE NEED A NEW TOURING VAN. Last year, our beloved van lost its transmission to the California desert. Tons of people donated in order to get us back on the road. It was amazing. Since then, other things have happened, and we're now in need of an entirely new van. We've been saving up, and are now just looking for the right thing. If you or someone you know is looking to unload a nice big van for a good price to a not-for-profit organization, please e-mail us! We're on the hunt! Of course, you can also feel free to donate funds at any time, to help us afford something with, say, air-conditioning.

May/June 2010: TOUR SCHEDULE: Screw MySpace! Here's our tour dates posted on our very own actual website! Who thought we'd live to see the day? Not all of the dates are filled in yet. The tour goes from May 30-June 25th. Things will be added as we know them. All shows are suggested donation $5 unless something weird happens. See below!


May 29—CRABBFEST
Southeast Ohio!
A fun time!

June 1—Columbus, OH
Monster House
9pm

June 2—Pittsburgh, PA
“The Shop”
8pm

June 3—Baltimore, MD
The Annex Theater
8pm

June 4—Philadelphia, PA
Calvary Church (part of Puppet Uprising)
8pm

June 5—Philadelphia, PA
Cha Cha Razzi (part of Puppet Uprising)
8pm

June 6—Washington, DC
St. Stephen's Church
6pm EARLY SHOW!

June 7—Nothing!

June 8—Asheville, NC
The Firestorm Café (w/ members of the Runaway Circus)
8pm

June 9—Chattanooga, TN
Sluggo's
11pm(late show!)

June 10—Athens, GA
Secret Squirrel
“8pm”?

June 11-13—Atlanta, GA
Eyedrum Gallery (w/ Twinhead Theatre, who’ll be doing their own version of “The Wonders of the World: Recite!”)
8pm

June 14—New Orleans, LA
The Mudlark Theatre
8pm

June 15—Huntsville, AL
Flying Monkey Arts Center
8pm

June 16—Knoxville, TN
The Birdhouse
8pm

June 17—Charlottesville, VA
The Bridge PAI

June 18—New York City (Brooklyn?)
The Silent Barn
8pm?

June 19—Providence, RI <
Building 16
9 PM

June 20-- Worcester, MA
The Firehouse
8pm

June 21—Albany, NY
Albany Free School
8pm

June 22nd
Montpelier, VT
Landgon St. Café
8:30 PM

June 23—Connecticut
UCONN
8pm

June 24 – Turners Falls, MA
Venue TBA

June 26 – Northampton, MA APE Gallery, 9 PM

March 2010: Hurray! Our giant 5-company production of Julius Caesar was a success by any standard! Sell-out crowds (we were literally double capacity closing night), great acts, lots of spontaneous collaboration, and tons of hard work all around. We can't wait until Henry V next year! Until then, check out this amazing article about the production by Wendy Rosenfield from the Philadelphia Inquirer: Read it here! And of course we'll be touring a new show in June, so if you'd like us to come toy our town, get in touch!

February/March 2010: Our third gigantic, secret, and utterly extravagant (think cupcakes, hot-toddies, and a trapeze) Philadelphia Shakespeare production is in the works and tickets are now available for purchase! Click here for all the relevant details (like how to find it) and to BUY TICKETS! The run is from March 11-15 in Philadelphia! Don't miss it!

On Tour in March 2009!:
The Missoula Oblongata will tour our play, The Moon, The Raccoon, The Hot Air Balloon, to colleges and living rooms. Though we can perform this show in traditional theatrical venues, it was conceived as House Theater, and is meant to be performed for small gatherings. We assemble a six by six foot stage, and transform any living room, attic, or classroom space into an intimate, fantastically lit, visually rich theater space. The show, which features the lofty escape plans of an obese raccoon and a Panamanian magician, relies heavily on image, palindromes, shadow play, movement, and music. Keep checking our myspace and facebook pages for updated tour dates.

If you yourself want to book The Moon, The Raccoon, The Hot Air Balloon please email Becky Renfrow at becky@futurenowproductions.com.

November 2009: We've got our last shows of the year this month, before we all take our winter hiatuses. Check the MySpace for details. Also, we're teaching a FREE community workshop in West Philadelphia this month, as a way of saying "thanks" to the totally awesome and supportive community of artists, friends, and audience there. It's funded by the Leeway Foundation and will culminate with a free public performance by the students! Come see what people make when we stick them in a room full of junk, power tools, and Grotowski exercises for a week! This will be happening at The Rotunda at 8pm on November 18th! Everyone is welcome!

Also, we had a great time teaching a week-long workshop at Goucher College this month. Other college stops this fall have been Bennington, Purchase, UMass, Hampshire and Kenyon! Whoo! Please note: WE LOVE TEACHING AND PERFORMING AT COLLEGES! It's fun and inspiring for us, and also helps us stay afloat financially! If you attend or teach at a college and are excited about our work, please do not hesitate to make contact with us! We've got this awesome booking agent, Becky Renfrow who will do al l the dirty work while sending you warm and reassuring e-mails. What could be better?

November 19 2009: Our year of working and touring has come to a close! It was a great finish with an amazing free community workshop in Philadelphia, which culminated in three very different and very inspiring performances created by the participants. Thanks to everyone who took the workshop, and also to the tons of folks who showed up for the performance! We'll all be going into hibernation/individual projects/recovery mode for the next couple of months, but will start back up with a full season of new work, tours, and side projects beginning in March. It all begins with a huge 5-company production of Julius Caesar on the actual Ides of March! Until then, stay in touch! Even though we're hibernating, our booking agent never sleeps.

This Summer!:
As part of our annual summer tour, we have been invited to present a two week run of our new full length play (which is in the works) at the Ontological Theater in New York. We will be double-billing with our friend, the fantastic young light Ric Royer. This is very exciting news for us, and we will be posting more details as they arise.

October 2009: Come see us in The Suitcase Festival. It's an international performance festival in Seattle. We're on a bill with The Nonsense Company, our top dogs. October 8,9,10.

As always, check the MySpace account for actual tour dates.

September 2009: City Paper's annual "Best of Baltimore" issue is out and named "DIY Theatre" the "Best Trend" — citing us as one of the key players in the scene/movement. While it is a nice mention and we don't want to bite a gift horse in the mouth that feeds us, this award does come in the middle of an ongoing battle that the Baltimore DIY theatre is having with the local media to be treated like "real" theatre/art/underground performance, and not simply as a novelty or, as the City Paper put it, a trend. But maybe this is their way of trying. Who knows? Here's the write-up.

Summer tour 2009 of The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen (The "What A Woman!" Tour) was a big success!: Biggest audiences, great response, and a huge well-spring of financial support when our transmission blew out in the California desert. Hurrah!

Here are some media-related highlights:

A cover story on us in the Cascadia Weekly

And a great review in The Seattlest

Also, check out this super cool time-lapse video of us setting up in Oakland, made by Dalton Blanco.