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Robert Falls to Depart Goodman Theatre in 2022

Falls, who has led the company for 35 years, will plan the 2022-23 season before departing Chicago’s oldest nonprofit theatre.

After more than a year of uncertainty and some hopeful planning, some theatres’ aspirations for a fall return are crashing into a fresh COVID surge.

Part of the Goodman Theatre’s LIVE series, the new staging combines the best of theatre and live television for a unique theatrical outing.

The pandemic forced a conversation about filmed performance and audience access. Let’s not drop the ball.

The theatre will return to in-person performances in July with a new play about activist Fannie Lou Hamer.

Working with Emmy-winning television producer Christina Tye, the company will present ‘The Sound Inside,’ ‘Ohio State Murders,’ and ‘I Hate It Here.’

The pandemic has given the Chicago playwright a chance to step back and rethink his approach—and he hopes theatres are doing the same.

Recent stagings of ‘Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It!’ showed the possibility—and stringent protocols—of pandemic-era live theatre.

At Long Wharf Theatre’s recent ‘Artistic Congress’ convening, two leading playwright/activists shared their dreams and demands for the theatre field.

Seven plays about gun violence will premiere on Broadway on Demand on the anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre.