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In 2007, Lifeline was honored by the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee with a Special Citation for its 25-year contribution to Chicago theater. [3] Honoring Lifeline’s children's programming, New City named Lifeline the Best Children's Theatre Company in Chicago in 2000, and Chicago Magazine named Lifeline Best Kids' Company in 2002 ...
A theater company formed in 1912, the Chicago Little Theatre spearheaded and lent its name [1] to a historic, popular wave in American Theater, the Little Theatre Movement. Founded in its namesake city by Ellen Van Volkenburg and Maurice Browne , the company was an art theater formed in opposition to the commercial values which held sway at the ...
The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois is a respected Chicago area regional theatre. Attached to the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort, the theatre produces an average of five musicals each year, presented in the round, as well as productions aimed at younger audiences. [1] A small, live orchestra provides accompaniment.
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]
Pyewacket Theatre Company; The House Theatre of Chicago [78] The Practical Theatre Company; Remains Theatre [79] Redmoon Theater; Wayward Productions (formerly Chicago Fusion Theatre) Windy City Performs [80] Venues. Academy of Music; Drury Lane Theatres; Garrick Theater; Iroquois Theatre; Theatre Building Chicago (Purchased by Stage 773 ...
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Alice Gerstenberg, an original member of the Chicago Little Theatre, expanded the movement to include children, founding the Chicago Junior League Theatre for Children in 1921. Gerstenberg was also producer and president of The Playwrights' Theatre of Chicago, 1922–1945.
A number of theatre companies, such as Seattle Children’s Theatre, Imagination Stage, and the Minneapolis Children’s Theatre Company, have been working to create and produce plays and musicals for young audiences that are more intelligent and diverse. [5] Recent work has explored themes that include parental abuse (e.g.