The PlayOffs:

Batter up! Constellation’s biggest and most fun fundraiser of the year is here! 9 Playwrights, 9 Directors, and 27 Actors have only 24 hours to write, direct, and produce a full production based on a surprise theme, prop, and line of dialogue. Each team films their performance within a 24hr period (Oct. 22-23), and a live Screening Event will take place on Nov. 5 at 6:00pm (allowing time for the footage to be professionally edited). Audience members can vote for their favorite plays and one lucky team will come home with the World Series Trophy.

The 2022 PlayOffs raised over $58,573! Stay tuned for details about our 2023 PlayOffs.

Watch the 2022 line-up of 24hr plays here!

About IKE & JULIE ARNOVE (in the words of their son & our sponsor, Bob Arnove):  My mother Julie Arnove was a free spirit who loved to dance around the house barefoot to music she listened to on the radio. She was interested in art and fashion design and was forever the diplomat,learning greetings and farewells in the languages of many countries she visited with my dad. Isadore (“Ike”) Arnove was the pragmatist who always supported the underdog, standing up to bullies and fight-ing for just social causes. Although nearly deaf in one ear, he, like Julie ,learned greetings and witty phrases in Greek, Japanese, and Spanish- to name but a few of the foreign languages he studied. His “Park-way” Drugstore on the SW corner of Fullerton and Clark in Chicago was akin to the famed Schwab’s Drugstore in Hollywood, where the famous came to sit at the pharmacy’s lunch counter – among them, Jim Thorpe, filmmaker Haskel Wexler, Sargeant Shriver, and Bobby Kennedy. Ike and Julie Arnove embodied many of the qualities of the adventerous spirit of The PlayOffs.