"The Sweetest Season: A Gathering of Indigenous Creativity"
Back for a second year, "The Sweetest Season" expands to include two performances of a spoken word and song showcase, staged readings, workshops, a Native-curated gathering and more. Presented in partnership with The Mitchell Museum of the...
"Layalina"
A surprising new play about how families fall apart—and find each other again—amidst turbulent global and social change. In 2003, newly-wed Layal and her family prepare to immigrate from Baghdad, Iraq, to a Chicago suburb. Seventeen years later,...
"the ripple, the wave that carried me home"
A family responds to injustice and a daughter reckons with her political inheritance in this new play by “a poet, a playwright to pay attention to” ("Variety"). Janice’s parents are prominent activists fighting for the integration of public...
"Where We Belong"
An Indigenous theatre-maker journeys across geographic borders, personal history, and cultural legacies; in search of a place to belong. In 2015, Mohegan theatre-maker Madeline Sayet travels to England to pursue a PhD in Shakespeare. Madeline...
"The Cherry Orchard"
A family verges on bankruptcy while their country stands on the brink of revolution. Endings and beginnings. Bittersweet departures. The comedy of life. When Madame Ranevskaya returns to her heavily-mortgaged estate on the eve of its auction, the...
"graveyard shift"
“Our new life starts tomorrow." - Kane, Scene VI. Janelle, poised to reap the fruits of her labor, relocates from Illinois to Texas in order to give love a chance. Meanwhile, a small-town police officer wrestles with the harsh realities of change....
David Cale's Musical Memoir of Family Tragedy
Growing up in an industrial English town, writer-performer David Cale escaped his parents' fraught marriage by singing in his bedroom and tending to birds in the animal hospital he built in a garden shed ... until a tragedy changed everything....
Stacy Keach as Hemingway in "Pamplona"
Stacy Keach triumphantly returns to Chicago's Goodman Theatre in a tour-de-force performance as legendary author Ernest Hemingway. After the prize comes the pressure. Five years after receiving career-defining awards, Ernest Hemingway faces a...
"Support Group for Men"
Every Thursday in Wrigleyville is "Guys' Night" for a crew of longtime pals who gather to vent about middle-aged maladies ... and there's a "No Ladies" policy strictly enforced. "Support Group for Men" shows what happens one night when an...
An Epic Journey in "Father Comes Home From the Wars"
The Greeks may have set the template for epics, but American history has epics of its own. "Father Comes Home From the Wars", like the Greek tragedies that inspired it, is the story of a warrior setting out for battle and then making the long...
Sisters' Amazing True Story: "Having Our Say"
Before their story became the basis for a massively selling memoir, a Tony-nominated play and a movie, the Delaney sisters weren't widely known. That suddenly changed when at the respective ages of 103 and 101, Sadie and Bessie sat down with a...
1-Woman "Until the Flood" Looks at Social Unrest
Pulitzer Prize finalist and "one of the country's top talents for solo performance" (TimeOut Chicago) playwright Dael Orlandersmith explores the social unrest in Ferguson, Missouri following the shooting of teenager Michael Brown. Drawing from her...
"Swing State"
It's hard to know who your friends are in a world that's more divided than ever. Recently widowed, Peg tends to the native plants in her 40-acre rural Wisconsin prairie backyard, her solitary days interrupted only by visits from a family friend...
