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Over the decades that the Goodman Theatre has run its annual production of “A Christmas Carol” in downtown Chicago, the Charles Dickens story at the heart of the production has slowly become ...
The Goodman was founded in 1925 as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, who died in the Great Influenza Pandemic in 1918. The theater was funded by Goodman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William O. Goodman, who donated $250,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a professional repertory company and a school of drama at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [2]
Hoogenakker's first professional role was in 1999 as Scarus in the Shakespeare play Antony and Cleopatra at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. [2] In 2000, he played Chris Smith in the Tracy Letts play Killer Joe when it was at The Theatre at 2851 N. Halsted Street; [5] [6] and the title character in the play Robyn Hood of Barnsdale Wood at the Equity Library Theatre. [7]
A Christmas Carol is a play by Jack Thorne based on the 1843 novella of the same name by Charles Dickens. The adaptation was written for The Old Vic in London where it premiered for the 2017 festive season and has returned every year since due to popular demand. It has also performed on Broadway (where it won 5 Tony Awards), on a US tour and in ...
However, much of his work has been in Chicago. At the Goodman Theatre alone Godinez has directed Cloud Tectonics (1995) in co-production with Teatro Vista; six of the annual productions of A Christmas Carol (1996 - 2001); Straight as a Line (1998); Millennium Mambo (2000); Zoot Suit (2000); Electricidad (2004); Mariela in the Desert (2005); The ...
Northlight Theatre (Evanston, IL) Talking to Myself by Studs Terkel [18] Stud Terkel [19] October 1989 Northlight Theatre The Butter and Egg Man by George S. Kaufman "a Big Apple newcomer" [20] Chicago Sun Times review [21] November 1989 Goodman Theatre (Chicago) A Christmas Carol [22] September 1990 Victory Gardens Theater: T Bone N Weasel by ...
CAPA and Short North Stage’s “A Christmas Carol” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday in the Ohio Theatre, 39 E. State St. Tickets start at $26. For more ...
"A Christmas Carol" was published 180 years ago this year, on Dec. 19, 1843, and sold all 6,000 copies of its initial printing in five days, Palmer says. ... as Ebenezer Scrooge and Curt Denham as ...