"Calamity West is one of the best playwrights in Chicago. Or maybe the country. Or the universe." - Chicago Reader
Carol just got fired.
Her husband Michael has already paid for the company’s $12,000 holiday dinner. Instead of cancelLing, they decide to go through with it - to host the meal no one asked for and prove they still belong at the table. But when no guests arrive, the night spirals into a brutal showdown over money, marriage, and the cost of holding on, where the only thing left to swallow is the truth.
FEAST! is a darkly comic pressure cooker
about privilege and power.
HOW FEAST! WAS COOKED
FEAST! was originally developed as part of
the Dorothy Strelsin
New American Writers Group at
Primary Stages in New York.
DEVELOPMENTS
THE GOODMAN THEATRE
DIRECTED BY: SUSAN V. BOOTH
January 2026
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE
Alcove At The Lortel
Dramaturg: Elly Green
May 2023 - December 2023
PRIMARY STAGES
Dorothy Strelsin
New American Writers Group
Moderator: Erin Daley
October 2022 - March 2023
READING HISTORY
THE GOODMAN THEATRE
NEW STAGES FESTIVAL
DIRECTED BY: SUSAN V. BOOTH
January 2026
LUCILLE LORTEL THEATRE
Directed by Elly Green
October 15th - October 31st, 2024
PRIMARY STAGES
Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt
April 2023
