Tiffany Keane Schaefer Archives

Tales From the Wandering Wyvern Inn offers a magical experience

by Kayla Pulley December 16, 2022January 9, 2023

Otherworld Theatre, known for its sci-fi and fantasy works, takes us into the winter solstice with Tales From the Wandering Wyvern Inn: A One-Shot Immersive LARP. If you are a fan of escape rooms, mystery, and/or theater, this show is a LARP dream and a wonderful introduction to the world of live-action role-playing. LARPING is […]

Four actors in a row onstage. Two are seated center in purple jumpsuits and cat ears. They are bookended by two characters in brown furry bodysuits, holding firearms.

Theater Review

Galaxy cats

by Emily McClanathan August 10, 2022August 17, 2022

Nerds of many stripes will feel at home entering the magical portal that is Otherworld Theatre, a Wrigleyville-based theater company that specializes in science fiction and fantasy. Fancy a butterbeer before the show? A cozy reading nook inside the TARDIS? Eclectic lobby decor ranging from classic sci-fi book covers to modern fantasy artists? This theater […]

A man in a dark coat and hat sits at a cabaret table in dim light next to a woman in black gloves and hat, who is smoking a cigarette.

Theater Review

Space mystery

by Katie Powers March 31, 2022March 31, 2022

In Otherworld Theatre Company’s Murder on Horizon: An Immersive Sci-Fi Noir, the cast and crew have devised an immaculate hyperspace straight out of a video game. The story begins when audiences step inside the theater, and the ensemble welcomes them into a new world. They’ve been transported onto the space station Horizon, situated in a […]

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Winter in the Wildwood is an earnest low-stakes fairy tale

by Irene Hsiao December 14, 2021December 14, 2021

Beyond a curiosity shop in a forest of Christmas trees, the lights of Wildwood have grown dim. The Winter Queen (Diane Berrios) is locked in a cursed sleep, and it’s up to intrepid quest adventurers new to this land (you!), led by intern/faun Juniper (Tiffany Keane Schaefer)—who also tends the apothecary/bar managed by Wilhelm the […]