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CONTEXT: The Price of Fame
By Teresa Rende, Education and Community Engagement AssociateOn July 24th, 2011, the morning after singer Amy Winehouse died, I and my colleagues were having a discussion about young artists and their...
View ArticleBlack and White: A Brief Overture to Dartmoor Prison
By Andrew E.T. Kron, Marketing Intern This Thursday our much-anticipated New Stages Amplified series begins with Carlyle Brown’s Dartmoor Prison. For more information on the series check out this post...
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Fame Games
By Liz Rice, Education and Community Engagement Intern The Goodman and season opener Red met by way of Hollywood Monday night, as the theater was swarmed by Collaboraction paparazzi (left) for the...
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Dartmoor Prison and America’s Promise of Freedom
By Charlie O'Malley, Literary Management and Dramaturgy Intern“Freedom? We’re in prison, man. There isn’t any damn freedom for us. We are just the mules that pulls freedom’s plow.”-Governor, Dartmoor...
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The Stars Out Front
By Jenny Seidelman, Campaign ManagerIf you’ve ever come to the Goodman's North Dearborn Street home, you may have noticed a group of glittering stars that line the sidewalk directly under the marquee....
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Nurturing New Work
By Andrew Knight, Assistant to the Associate Producer With News Stages Amplifiedofficially up and running—Dartmoor Prison had its first performance last Thursday and both Chicago Boys and Ask Aunt...
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News and Notes
New Stages Amplified is in full swing, with our limited-run production of Dartmoor Prison already coming to a close this Sunday. On Saturday, the night before its last performance, we’ll be hosting an...
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Seeing Red: Rothko in Pop Culture
By Teresa Rende, Education and Community Engagement Associate In Red, playwright John Logan paints Mark Rothko as the anti-cool, anti-pop, anti-name-brand-recognition man. As I watched the play and...
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Night of Two Openings
Tonight the second of our New Stages Amplified plays begins performances in the Owen, as Kathleen Tolan’s Chicago Boys takes the stage. This will be the second turn in the Owen for Chicago Boys—an...
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The Real Chicago Boys: Understanding an Economic Revolution
By Nazihah Adil, Institutional Giving AssistantChicago Boys, the second play in our New Stages Amplifiedseries, explores the economic policies that shaped the 1973 Chilean coup d’état. Named after a...
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Broadway via Chicago
By Jenny Seidelman, Campaign ManagerRegular blog readers may recall that after our summer show Chinglish closed, most of the cast headed to New York to take on Broadway. If you’ve been keeping up with...
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Goings On at the Goodman
The next few days at the Goodman promise much excitement, with the closing performances of our limited-run production of Kathleen Tolan’s Chicago Boys this weekend, plus a FREE public reading of Laura...
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Aunt Susan and the Age of the Internet
By Charlie O’Malley, Literary Management and Dramaturgy InternEach year, the Goodman’s literary department commissions four Chicago-based playwrights to create new works under the auspices of the...
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Coming Soon...
Christmas is slowly taking over downtown Chicago. For weeks now, workers have been busy constructing the Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza—a block from the Goodman—and since late October the sounds of...
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Revisiting the Past, Reanimating the Present
By Lesley Gibson, Publications Coordinator The Goodman’s 34th annual production of A Christmas Carol opens this Friday, November 18. This year marks the return of director Steve Scott to the holiday...
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Closing, Opening
New Stages Amplified closes this weekend, with the final few performances of Seth Bockley’s Ask Aunt Susan in the Owen. If you haven’t had a chance to see this irreverent new play—which was inspired by...
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Behind the Scenes of A Christmas Carol
Our annual production of A Christmas Carol has opened, officially, and is up and running in the Albert Theatre. Even though we’ve been working from the same script for several years (Tom Creamer’s...
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My First Christmas Carol
By Shanequa Beal, Fan and Belinda Cratchit in A Christmas CarolToday we get a look inside the process of creating A Christmas Carol from one of its youngest cast members, Shanequa Beal.This is my first...
View ArticleChristmas in the Owen
By Liz Rice, Education and Community Engagement Intern With Christmas just a few weeks away, the sights, sounds, and spirits (both literal and theoretical) of the holiday have taken over the Goodman. A...
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A First Meeting With A Christmas Carol
By Ilene Sørbøe, Artistic Intern and Assistant to the Director of A Christmas CarolI was born and raised in Norway. This August, I moved to Chicago to be an artistic intern at Goodman Theatre for the...
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Race Starts Next Week!
Now that the festive Christmas Carol season is behind us we're looking forward to our next play, David Mamet's Race. Race, a swift 90-minute drama, chronicles what happens when a pair of lawyers—one...
View ArticleDiscovering Mamet's Race
By Charlie O'Malley, Literary Intern “When a white person asks a black person a question such as, ‘What is it like to be black?’ the black person knows that it is not a question as a means of inquiry...
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Mission: Homefront
By Willa J. Taylor, Director of Education and Community EngagementThe transition from war zone to home front can often be difficult for the troops returning, their families and their communities. In...
View ArticleConversations on Race
By Nazihah Adil, Institutional Giving Assistant On January 18, Goodman Theatre hosted an Artist Encounter featuring Race. Through intimate conversations about the process of creating theater, the...
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Coming Soon in the Owen
In just two and a half weeks, Danai Gurira’s sharp new historical drama, The Convert, will open in the Owen. This world premiere by Ms. Gurira, who Goodman audiences may remember as the author and star...
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