Chicagoans love dive bars. Now there's a new play in one.
<p>“Dive” is a new play set in a Chicago dive bar. And not in a storefront theater flipped to mimic a bar, but it's actually staged in Fritzy’s Tavern in Edgewater.</p><p>“We literally wandered in October,” said Michaela Petro, co-founder of The Dark Room District, the new theater company producing the immersive show.</p><p>“We were scouting location scouting, i.e., ‘bar hopping,’ and we walked in,” Petro continued.
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<p>“Dive” is a new play set in a Chicago dive bar. And not in a storefront theater flipped to mimic a bar, but it's actually staged in Fritzy’s Tavern in Edgewater.</p><p>“We literally wandered in October,” said Michaela Petro, co-founder of The Dark Room District, the new theater company producing the immersive show.</p><p>“We were scouting location scouting, i.e., ‘bar hopping,’ and we walked in,” Petro continued. “There was a ball game on, and there was nobody in the bar. The owner, who was bar tending, walked up and said, ‘We give out hot dogs on game day.’ So we just hung out for hot dogs and a drink.”</p><p>Petro, along with fellow co-founder John Henry Roberts, are former ensemble members of Strawdog Theatre Company.
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- <p>“Dive” is a new play set in a Chicago dive bar. And not in a storefront theater flipped to mimic a bar, but it's actually staged in Fritzy’s Tavern in Edgewater.</p><p>“We literally wandered in October,” said Michaela Petro, co-founder of The Dark Room District, the new theater company producing the immersive show.</p><p>“We were scouting location scouting, i.e., ‘bar hopping,’ and we walked in,” Petro continued.
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