New Stages for New Plays in Chicago
The Goodman Theatre’s festival of new works brings plays to their feet and makes sure that the work leaves with legs.
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The Goodman Theatre’s festival of new works brings plays to their feet and makes sure that the work leaves with legs.
In the Goodman’s production of August Wilson’s classic, the creative team wrapped a coal-dusted city around a struggling diner.
In the struggle to make work on tiny budgets, small theatres in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles may have more in common than not.
Obviously theatres should give priority to disabled actors in roles defined as disabled. The next step: to consider them for all roles.
The author of ‘Luna Gale’ and ‘Boy Gets Girl’ will mentor four emerging playwrights in anticipation of the theatre’s New Works Festival in May 2016.
The sixth installation of the program will include four writers.
Straight realism, magic realism, even ‘sausage’ realism were on offer at the latest new-play event staged by the Latino/a Theatre Commons.
The author’s new play about the advance of technology offers tweet seats, an interactive hallway entrance and a microsite.
Since joining the theatre’s staff four decades ago, he’s helped guide the Chicago theatre to national flagship status. It wasn’t an easy or inevitable climb.
New plays by Jose Rivera, Thomas Bradshaw, Charise Castro Smith and Seth Bockley highlight the Chicago theatre’s next season.