"William Gibson has revitalized science fiction as no other single force in a generation."
-- Rolling Stone

David Silvis as "the Finn"

"'Chrome' shines... 'The Maltese Falcon' meets 'Blade Runner'" Chicago Tribune "Recommended...Shrewdly adapted" Chicago Sun-Times "Sensational...Brilliant...What live theatre can accomplish at the height of its creative potential" Evanston Review "Brilliantly hip...a 90-minute thrill ride" Daily Northwestern "Brilliant adaptation sets the house on fire" Daily Herald "****4 out of 4 stars...A triumph of ensemble spectacle, both artistic and technical" On Stage Magazine  TWO "AFTER DARK" AWARDS Best Original Adaption Best Overall Technical Design   NOMINATED FOR THREE "JEFF" AWARDS New Adaptation Lighting Design Sound Design Here are the current links for reviews: The Chicago Sun-Times (Hedy Weiss) The Chicago Tribune (Richard Christiansen) The Daily Northwestern

The futuristic roman noir, BURNING CHROME, chronicles two small-time data thieves, Bobby Quine and Automatic Jack, as they engineer a suicidal heist against the deadly crime boss known as Chrome. Published by OMNI magazine in 1982, BURNING CHROME was the story which introduced the term "cyberspace" to the world vocabulary.

Ted Koch as "Automatic Jack" and Guy Massey as "Miles", the Gentleman Loser's bartender.

Drawing inspiration from a vast landscape of popular culture, and the works of such authors as Dashiell Hammett, George Orwell and William Burroughs, New York Times bestselling author William Gibson's science fiction thrillers have sold millions of copies worldwide. But, more intriguingly, his concepts of the future have been used as direct inspirational blueprints for the technological visionaries of today. "When I came up with the term (cyberspace) in BURNING CHROME, I used it to define a kind of navigable, iconic, three-dimensional representation of data. There are also six other definitions that have subsequently been attached to it by people working in computer modeling. So now, it has technical definitions which are, in some cases, beyond my understanding." - William Gibson WILLIAM GIBSON'S BURNING CHROME marks the fourth collaboration of Next Artistic Director Steve Pickering and Charley Sherman, whose ongoing work with novelist/filmmaker, Clive Barker, include critically acclaimed adaptations of the short stories, IN THE FLESH and SON OF CELLULOID, and the American Premiere of Mr. Barker's play, THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL or Scenes from a Pretended Life.