Get free tickets (or up to $8.50) for the weekend performances of Outward Bound on October 26, 27 and 28 at the Jedlicka Performing Arts Center.  Theater is on the Morton College campus, on Central Avenue, just off I-55.

Twice adapted to film, Outward Bound is a tale of seven passengers who meet in the lounge of an ocean liner at sea and realize they have no idea why they’re there, or where they’re headed. Each of them eventually discovers that they’re dead, and they’re heading toward Judgment Day. Written in 1923, no producers wanted to stage the production, fearing its unusual combination of fantasy and drama. Writer Sutton Vane rose to the occasion and produced it himself — and it became the hit of the 1923 London season. Later, the play garnered success in New York, and it’s lived on in film and countless stage productions.