Theatre-on-the-Hill is pleased to announce its Fall production of Stephen Adly Guirgis' "Den of Thieves!" A fantastically hilarious tale of a heist gone bad, "Den of Thieves" has Guirgis' trademark lightning bolt dialogue and truly unique characters. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Director Craig J. Engel seeks an adult cast consisting of five men and two women. All parts are open. Auditions will be at 7 pm on August 15 & 16 at Bolingbrook's Performing Arts stage, 375 W. Briarcliff. The show opens October 28; closes November 20.

Theatre-on-the-Hill was hailed by Money magazine as one of the main reasons Bolingbrook was rated as the one of the country's best places to live. Recent artistic and commercial successes at Theatre-on-the-Hill include: Amadeus, End Days, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The Elephant Man, Misery, The Laramie Project, A Flea in her Ear!, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Escanaba in da Moonlight, and the Illinois/Chicago premiere of Jeff Daniels' Escanaba in Love.

THE STORY: Maggie is a self-hating, newly single, junk-food-binging shoplifter looking to change her life. Paul is her passionate, formerly four-hundred-pound compulsive-overeating sponsor in a twelve-step program for recovering thieves. Maggie's jealous ex-boyfriend is a wannabe Puerto Rican small-time thief of named Flaco who spins a yarn about $750,000.00 in unprotected money sitting in a safe in a downtown disco guarded by an easily distracted crackhead. This dubious criminal crew is rounded out by the fabulous Boochie—a malaprop-slinging stripper who refuses to let her third-grade reading level stand in the way of fame, fortune and fur. When things don't go according to plan, this quartet of hapless thieves finds themselves at the mercy of Louie "The Little Tuna" Pescatore, a reluctant, donut-ingesting heir to the criminal empire run by his father—"The Big Tuna"—who has left him in charge for the weekend. The penalty for stealing from the Tuna is death—but Louie offers them a break: "I need one body and three thumbs, you can choose the who, whys and wherefores among yourselves." Tied to chairs, they must now fight for their lives by out-arguing each other as to who deserves to live. Verbal gymnastics and the struggle for self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-love produce a high-octane battle for survival that's not resolved until the last donut falls.