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The Playwright's Theatre Club was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953 by Paul Sills, David Shepherd and Eugene Troobnick. The theatre was noted for its original treatment and productions of classic plays as well as premiering original works, and was credited for the creation of The Compass Players and The Second City .
In the summer of 1976, Steppenwolf took up residence in a vacant basement space of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church [18] in Highland Park, Illinois and produced its first full season of plays. [19] [15] [20] In 1980, the theatre company moved into a 134-seat theatre at the Jane Addams Hull House Center on Broadway Avenue in Chicago ...
American Theater Company [69] Body Politic Theater [70] Baliwick Theatre Company; BoHo Theatre [71] Boxer Rebellion Theatre Company; Caffeine Theatre [72] Chicago Center for the Performing Arts [73] Compass Players; Defiant Theatre; The Ethiopian Art Theatre/Players; Famous Door Theatre [74] First Folio Theatre (Oak Brook) Goat Island; Happy ...
Eugene Field Park, home of Albany Park Theater Project.. Albany Park Theater Project was cofounded in April 1997 by David Feiner and the late Laura Wiley. Moving about the North Side in the vicinity of Lawrence Avenue, APTP would move from Horner Park, to a church basement, to Jensen Park, before finally settling in 2001 in its current home is at Eugene Field Park, where APTP is a Chicago Park ...
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance (also known as the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, the Harris & Harris Theater or, most commonly, the Harris Theater) is a 1,499-seat theater for the performing arts located along the northern edge of Millennium Park on Randolph Street in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, US.
Victory Gardens Theater is a theater company in Chicago, Illinois dedicated to the development and production of new plays and playwrights. The theater company was founded in 1974 when eight Chicago artists, Cecil O'Neal, Warren Casey, Stuart Gordon, Cordis Heard, Roberta Maguire, Mac McGuinnes, June Pyskaček, and David Rasche each fronted $1,000 to start a company outside the Chicago Loop ...
Active from 1906 to 1965 and based in Chicago, the office designed over 400 theatres, including the Chicago Theatre (1921), Bismarck Hotel and Theatre (1926) and Oriental Theater (1926) in Chicago, the Five Flags Center (1910) in Dubuque, Iowa and the Paramount Theatres in New York City (1926) and Aurora, Illinois (1931).
The Annoyance opened a new theatre and bar in July 2006 in the Uptown area of Chicago. That location opened with a production of President Bush is a Great Man, directed by Mick Napier. In October 2006, the theatre revived their very first show, Splatter Theatre, first performed in 1987. This has become a Halloween tradition at the theater.