Janus Theatre Company

08/31/2026

It's Tech Week, y'all! 💖

Is the show Dolly-coded? Nah, not specifically, but it's almost as iconic, and we think she would have approved.

Join us!

AN ILIAD
Written by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare
Directed by Sean Hargadon
September 3-20
Elgin Art Showcase
🎟: homer.eventbrite.com

08/31/2026

Tech Week again, eh? Alright, let's do this. 💪🧩

AN ILIAD by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare - Presented by Janus Theatre Company opens this weekend.

September 3-20 with Thursday seating options, including a special understudy performance on Thursday, September 17th.

The NEW Elgin Art Showcase
220 Dupage Street in downtown Elgin

Seating is limited, so get your 🎟 now at homer.eventbrite.com

🔗 in bio.

08/27/2026

Thank you Daily Herald for featuring AN ILIAD by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare - Presented by Janus Theatre Company coming to Elgin Art Showcase September 3-20.

Janus remounts modern 'Iliad' Ten years after Janus Theatre first staged “An Iliad,” the Elgin theater company remounts Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s 2012 adaptation of Homer’s epic ...

08/27/2026

"Oh please...O Muses...Don't make me do this alone."
- The Poet

AN ILIAD by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare - Presented by Janus Theatre Company
Directed by Sean Hargadon
September 3-20 (special understudy performance on Thursday, September 17)
The NEW Elgin Art Showcase
220 Dupage Street in downtown Elgin

🎟: homer.eventbrite.com
🔗 in bio

📸: Rachel E. Maley

08/24/2026

"I don't want to tell you about what happens next..."

- The Poet

So, let us show you.

AN ILIAD
Written by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare
Directed by Sean Hargadon
September 3-20
*Special understudy performance on Thursday, September 17th*
Elgin Art Showcase

🎟: homer.eventbrite.com
🔗 in bio

08/22/2026

"That's an awful moment, isn't it? It starts with a bad feeling or an intuition or why did the phone ring at 3 o'clock in the morning? Or I didn't get a phone call, or, he didn't come home or it's late, it's really late, he should have been home by now, I should have heard by now, the plane should have landed by now, he should have called..."

- The Poet

AN ILIAD by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare - Presented by Janus Theatre Company
Directed by Sean Hargadon
September 3-20
Special understudy performance on Thursday, September 17th
At the NEW Elgin Art Showcase

🎟: homer.eventbrite.com

08/20/2026

"Yes. That's how it happens. We think of ourselves: not me, I'm not like that, I'm a peaceful--
but it happens anyway, some trick in our blood and--
--rage.
Do you see?"
-The Poet

AN ILIAD by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare - Presented by Janus Theatre Company
Directed by Sean Hargadon
September 3-20
Elgin Art Showcase

🎟: homer.eventbrite.com
🔗 in bio

08/18/2026

Even Epic Poets gotta party sometimes.
💃🏿💃🏼💃💃🏻💃🏽💃🏾

AN ILIAD
Written by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare
Directed by Sean Hargadon
September 3-20
Elgin Art Showcase

🎟: homer.eventbrite.com
🔗 in bio

08/15/2026

"You know that feeling when, for whatever reason, you coudl k!ll somebody? Right then and there. You could k!ll them. You could rend them limb from limb. You could tear their f*cking head off."
- The Poet

AN ILIAD by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare - Presented by Janus Theatre Company
Directed by Sean Hargadon
September 3-20 (special understudy performance on Thursday, September 17)
The NEW Elgin Art Showcase
220 Dupage Street in downtown Elgin

🎟: homer.eventbrite.com
🔗 in bio

📸: Rachel E. Maley

08/13/2026

Your Poet has arrived, in living color, and have they got a story to tell...🔥

AN ILIAD by Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare - Presented by Janus Theatre Company
Directed by Sean Hargadon
September 3-20
The NEW Elgin Art Showcase

🎟: homer.eventbrite.com
🔗 in bio