Our stages, dark for the past 16 months, are illuminated once again! Spend summer's longer, lighter days with us—on screen, at Chicago parks and back in your seats at 170 N. Dearborn.

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Meet the Playwright

“I Hate It Here” playwright Ike Holter shares how he wrote a play about the world falling apart—while the world was falling apart.

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Six Words on Survival

We challenged past and present Education programming participants to submit their stories of life during COVID-19 using only six words each. Bittersweet, sorrowful and uplifting—see what they have to say.

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“When I Have a Bad Day”

In this clip, members of the Strike!: The Youth Political Theatre Project, react to the Atlanta Spa Shootings this past March that claimed the lives of eight people, including six Asian women.

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Worth a Thousand Words

Describing a play using words is one thing, but an image can go even further towards giving audiences a sense of what to expect. See how artist Mary Williamson, a longtime Ike Holter collaborator, translated “I Hate It Here” into a fitting visual.

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