🎭 NEW! Chicago Theatre Newsletter
Created by the YRT ensemble, this fast-paced theatrical journey transforms one iconic location across time, guiding audiences through a century of secrets, scandals, and side-splitting chaos.
🎭 NEW! Chicago Theatre Newsletter
Club Shush! Speak Easy, Laugh Hard is a decade-hopping comedy set entirely inside one unforgettable back room. As WYRT radio tunes into the club’s hidden history, the audience is dropped into different eras filled with outsiders, dreamers, troublemakers, and chosen families who helped shape the space into what it is today. But the past is not set in stone. At key moments, the audience gets to decide what happens next, and each choice ripples forward, changing what we discover when we return to the present day.
A comedy about community, authenticity, and the power of choices, Club Shush! is a laugh-filled journey through the lives, secrets, and stories that linger inside one remarkable room.
The bar remembers. The radio knows. The audience decides.
The cast includes: Sean Frett, Christopher Ratliff, Sophia Vitello, Amy Hunt, Teri Talo and Schnaude Dorizan. With Michael Bolaños, Emma Vaughn and Jacqui Jaurena as Swings.
The Artistic Team includes Sean Frett: Co-Producer and Writer – Shush! and Shush! Reprise, Kelly Levander: Co-Producer, Head Director, Props, Katherine Wettermann: Scene Director, Casting Director, Joe Bushell: Scene Director and Writer – The Chicago Spore, Claire Thomson: Scene Director, Taylor Blum: Stage Manager, Maeve Carroll: Assistant Stage Manager, Annie Smith: Scenic Designer, Nathan Keiller: Lighting Designer
Sophia Vitello: Costume Designer, Dramaturg, Casting Director, Sophie Davidson: Assistant Costume Designer, Jay Donley: Fight Choreographer and Intimacy Coordinator, Devin Sugerik: Writer – My Lord, Madeline Diego: Writer – The Neighborhood House, Judy Wolf: Writer – After Oz, JD Hartner: Writer – Violette’s and Anna Joy Yee: Front of House and Writer – Benny’s Last Dance.
Performances runs June 12th through June 28th at The Bramble Arts Loft, located at 5545 N Clark, Chicago. Tickets can be purchased at the Yellow Rose Theatre’s website. Tickets are $55, a limited number of $20 tickets will be offered for each performance to support accessibility for students, fellow artists and community members. The show runs 2 hours including a 15 minute intermission.
2026 Theater Fans’ Choice Awards – Live Stats
Best Featured Performer in a Musical – Top 3
1.
Ali Louis Bourzgui – The Lost Boys, A New Musical
27% of votes
2.
Ben Levi Ross – Ragtime
6.7% of votes
3.
McKenzie Kurtz – Schmigadoon!
5.8% of votes