THEATER EVENT. Open Space Arts presents the Chicago premiere of A THIRD WAY, the award-winning new play by Lee Osorio that reimagines what love, marriage, and family can look like in the 21st century. Winner of the 2023 Del Shores Foundation Playwriting Award, this sharply funny and deeply compassionate comedy-drama arrives in Chicago following its acclaimed world premiere in Atlanta. ABOUT THE PLAY Nico and Matt are renovating a house — and discovering that rebuilding a life together is far more complicated. As familiar figures from the past and unexpected new connections enter their world, long-standing assumptions are quietly — and sometimes explosively — challenged. With humor, warmth, and razor-sharp insight, A THIRD WAY explores the fragile balance between desire and responsibility, freedom and commitment. Rather than offering easy answers, the play invites audiences to sit inside uncertainty — asking what it truly means to choose love when there are no clear rules. Intimate in scale but expansive in implication, this production is perfectly suited to Open Space Arts’ 25-seat theater in Uptown.