Tickets go on sale Dec. 22 at noon. Tickets also go on sale for Fresh Squeezed works by Tim Miller, Holly Hughes, Rohina, The New Colony and Neo-Futurists.

For tickets and information, call the Victory Gardens box office, (773) 871-3000, or purchase tickets online at victorygardens.org.

Now in its second season, Victory Gardens Fresh Squeezed "is a series of special events and off-beat, off-night performances aimed to attract new, more diverse audiences while celebrating alternative voices and approaches to creating new work."

In How Theater Failed America, Daisey "sinks his razor-sharp wit into a subject he knows well: the American theatre, from the sublimely crass to the genuinely ugly," according to the Tony Award-winning VGT. "From gorgeous new theatres standing empty as cathedrals, to 'successful' working actors traveling like migrant farmhands, to an arts culture unwilling to speak or listen to its own nation, Daisey takes stock of the dystopian state of theatre in America: a shrinking world with smaller audiences every year. Fearlessly implicating himself and the system he works within, Daisey seeks answers to essential and dangerous questions about the art we're making, the legacy we leave the future, and who it is we believe we're speaking to."

In The Last Cargo Cult, his latest work, "Daisey divulges the true-life story of his time on a remote South Pacific island whose inhabitants worship America at the base of a constantly erupting volcano. Their religion is explored alongside our own to form a sharp and searing examination of the international financial crisis. Daisey wrestles with the largest questions of what the collapse means, and what it says about our deepest values. Part adventure story and part memoir, he uses each culture to illuminate the other to find, between the seemingly primitive and the achingly modern, a human answer."

Fresh Squeezed 2010 also includes:

The New Colony's Walk of Shame – Queer Feb. 27 at 10 PM
"The New Colonists bring their shame back to the Biograph — this time with a queer twist! Remember when you woke up in a bathtub wearing your friend's mom's brassiere? No? Well, The New Colony will jog your memory at Walk of Shame – Queer. This evening of honest-to-God tales, created by The New Colony ensemble and invited artists from across the LGBTQ community, will make your own worst moment shy in comparison."

Tim Miller's Lay of the Land March 15-21, 2010
"Tim Miller defines himself from the beginning as the gay little sperm that could. With fierce wit and candor, Miller eloquently drives through narratives with more stamina than an honor roll student on Adderall. Lay of the Land is Miller's saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Queer Union during a time of trial! Careening from his sexy misadventures performing in 45 States, to Marriage Equality street protests, to the electoral assaults on gay folks all over the country, to his life as a grade-school flag monitor, to choking on cheap meat caught in his 10-year-old gay boy's throat, Lay of the Land friskily gets at that feeling of queer people being perpetually on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu! Don't miss this heralded new work as well as the opportunity to train with Miller when he teaches a week-long workshop with the Victory Gardens Training Center."

Holly Hughes' The Dog and Pony Show March 18-21, 2010
"Hold on tight when lesbian performer Holly Hughes unleashes her post-racial poodle with the Chicago premiere of her newest work, The Dog and Pony Show, a meditation on midlife set in the eye of a canine. Former member of the feminist collective WOW Café, Hughes has made a name for herself for plucky solo works that fearlessly dig for tangible identity in the wire-crossed world of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and socio-political cultures."

Unveiled, written and performed by Rohina, directed by Ann Filmer, presented by 16th Street Theater in association with Victory Gardens Fresh Squeezed, March 24-April 4, 2010.
"Come take a rare and intimate glimpse at Muslim life when Victory Gardens Fresh Squeezed hosts last year's hit from Berwyn's 16th Street Theater, Unveiled. Written and performed by Chicago-based playwright, actress and solo artist Rohina, in Unveiled, five Muslim women in a post-9/11 world serve tea and uncover what lies beneath the veil. Rohina was raised in London and draws heavily from her Indo-Pakistani heritage as inspiration for her writing. Originally developed for Live Bait's Fillet of Solo, Rohina continued to workshop Unveiled through Rivendell Theater Ensemble, with director Ann Filmer at 16th Street Theater, and most recently, with both Filmer and Victory Gardens associate artistic director Sandy Shinner in preparation for the show’s Fresh Squeezed debut."

The Neo-Futurists' Too Much LADY Makes the Baby Go Blind April 19, 2010, at 8 PM
"Who says women don't have balls? In April, Fresh Squeezed partners with the stalwarts of late-night Chicago theater, The Neo-Futurists, on a brazen date with some of the most prolific female writers this side of the Kennedy Expressway. For the first time in the company's 20-year history, the broads are going stag on the Biograph mainstage in this all-female presentation of Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind curated by ensemble members Kristie Vuocolo and Megan Mercier. Fellow Neo-Futurists Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda Will host a post-show round table, 'Ladies In Your Face.' So come early, grab a drink at the Biograph bar, and help pick the brains of some of Chicago's most talented female performers from the last two decades."