Main Stage
Art by Yasmina Reza; translated by Christopher Hampton; directed by Annie Slivinski 1998 Tony Award winner for Best Play; 1996 Olivier Award for Best Comedy
Reza’s brilliant comedy asks the question: Are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you are? Serge has bought a modern painting for a huge sum of money. Marc hates it and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides. This stylish sophisticated work explores the bonds of friendship.
Hatch Auditorium1000 N. Ridgeland
Oak Park
Preview: Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 8pm
Performances: Friday/Saturday/Sunday October 27 – November 18, 2007
Crowns by Regina Taylor; adapted from the book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry Directed by McKinley Johnson
Produced in partnership with the Illinois Institute of Technology
Brought back by popular demand, Open Door will remount this moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for an exploration of black history and identity as seen through the eyes of a young black woman who has come down South to stay with her grandmother after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. There is a hat for every occasion from flirting to churchgoing, from funerals to baptisms. A foot-stomping inspirational experience!
Illinois Institute of Technology
Hermann Hall
3300 S. Federal
Chicago
Performances: Friday, February 22, 2008 at 7:30pm (Benefit Performance for the Collens Scholarship Fund)
Saturday February 23, 2008 at 3pm and 8pm
Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 5pm
The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel; directed by Brett Kashanitz
As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market and aching joints. The New York Times says this play “Captures Ms Vogel’s most essential gift as a playwright: an ability to find transfixing warmth and vitality in subjects often employed to titillate or repel. . .this venturesome dramatist provides a transforming experience that keeps. . . theatergoers hooked.”
Hatch Auditorium
1000 N. Ridgeland
Oak Park
Preview: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Performances: Friday/Saturday/Sunday April 26 – May 18, 2008
Main Stage
Art by Yasmina Reza; translated by Christopher Hampton; directed by Annie Slivinski 1998 Tony Award winner for Best Play; 1996 Olivier Award for Best Comedy
Reza’s brilliant comedy asks the question: Are you who you think you are or are you who your friends think you are? Serge has bought a modern painting for a huge sum of money. Marc hates it and cannot believe that a friend of his could possibly want such a work. Yvan attempts, unsuccessfully, to placate both sides. This stylish sophisticated work explores the bonds of friendship.
Hatch Auditorium1000 N. Ridgeland
Oak Park
Preview: Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 8pm
Performances: Friday/Saturday/Sunday October 27 – November 18, 2007
Crowns by Regina Taylor; adapted from the book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry Directed by McKinley Johnson
Produced in partnership with the Illinois Institute of Technology
Brought back by popular demand, Open Door will remount this moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for an exploration of black history and identity as seen through the eyes of a young black woman who has come down South to stay with her grandmother after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. There is a hat for every occasion from flirting to churchgoing, from funerals to baptisms. A foot-stomping inspirational experience!
Illinois Institute of Technology
Hermann Hall
3300 S. Federal
Chicago
Performances: Friday, February 22, 2008 at 7:30pm (Benefit Performance for the Collens Scholarship Fund)
Saturday February 23, 2008 at 3pm and 8pm
Sunday, February 24, 2008 at 5pm
The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel; directed by Brett Kashanitz
As Ronald Reagan enters the White House, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition for their niche market and aching joints. The New York Times says this play “Captures Ms Vogel’s most essential gift as a playwright: an ability to find transfixing warmth and vitality in subjects often employed to titillate or repel. . .this venturesome dramatist provides a transforming experience that keeps. . . theatergoers hooked.”
Hatch Auditorium
1000 N. Ridgeland
Oak Park
Preview: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Performances: Friday/Saturday/Sunday April 26 – May 18, 2008