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FORTS: Build Your Own Adventure at Writers Theatre

Wed Mar 26, 2025 - Sun Apr 6, 2025
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Repeating every week — Sundays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through April 6, 2025.
Various times
Age: 2-102
Price: $10-$15
Chicago’s Filament Theatre returns with its hit immersive play experience for families FORTS: Build Your Own Adventure, in which Writers Theatre transforms into a play space for children and parents to build new worlds using cardboard boxes, sheets, clotheslines and more.
FORTS: Build Your Own Adventure, conceived by Filament Theatre founder Julie Ritchey welcomes families to build, imagine and play together in an interactive playspace. With theatrical design elements of sound and lights working together to support creative play, families are swept away in the adventure.
** Activity dates/times are subject to change. Please click through to the activity website to verify.