Prime: Dramatic License Show

We're living in the age of the mashup. Musicians, filmmakers and artists combine influences and styles to create something new out of two (or more) older genres, resulting in art that feels both new and familiar. Prime, the local theater company that specializes in writing, rehearsing and producing short plays in just 24 hours, adopts the mashup for its new show, Dramatic License. Six new short plays will debut at 8 p.m. tonight at the Gaslight Theater (358 North Boyle Avenue; www.primetheatre.org), each of them a combo platter of styles. While the actual mashups won't be known until the night of the show, Prime has a few planned: "fairytale documentary" and "slasher chick flick" are both possibilities. Tickets for Dramatic License are $15.