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In 1837, the first resident theater company, the short-lived Chicago Theater, opened in the Sauganash Hotel. One of the players was then a boy named Joseph Jefferson, who grew to become a very successful comedic actor. Chicago's main theater prize, the Joseph Jefferson award, is named after this pioneer.
The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz (B&K) group of theaters run by A. J. Balaban, his brother Barney Balaban and partner Sam Katz. [5]
This category is for articles about theatre venues. For theatre companies see Category:Theatre companies in Chicago . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Theaters in Chicago .
The name Steppenwolf Theatre Company was first used [6] in 1974 at a Unitarian church [7] [8] on Half Day Road in Deerfield. [1] The company presented And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little by Paul Zindel, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, [9] with Rick Argosh directing, [10] [11] and Grease by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, [12] with ...
The Merle Reskin Theatre is a performing arts venue located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.Originally named the Blackstone Theatre it was built in 1910. . Renamed the Merle Reskin Theatre in 1992, it is now part of DePaul University, and is also used for events and performances of other
DeSantis opened the Martinique Restaurant in Evergreen Park and began producing plays in 1949 in a tent adjacent to the restaurant to attract customers. [2] The enterprise was successful, prompting him to build his first theatre. Drury Lane Evergreen Park was DeSantis's first theatre in the Chicago area. It opened in 1958 and was a local ...
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]