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Writers Theatre is proud to celebrate 33rd Annual Banned Books Week and encourages you to do the same. Our 2015/16 season includes a world premiere entitled Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia ... Read More ›

Jordan Harrison

Literary Manager Bobby Kennedy and Playwright Jordan Harrison discuss the various inspirations behind Marjorie Prime.

Rev. David J. Wood, Glencoe Union Church

I love the fact that Writers Theatre is performing a play in our church building. The intrinsic connection between spirituality and the arts has a ... Read More ›

When asked by an interviewer about why he set Doubt in 1964, John Patrick Shanley responded that it “was a pivotal time of going from complete faith in establishments and hierarchies, to questioning those establishments and hierarchies — ... Read More ›

William Brown

[Director William Brown discusses the site-specific nature of Doubt: A Parable and the scenic designs by Kevin Depinet.]

Whenever I tell people I’m going to be directing Doubt: A Parable in a church, they say “wow!” in ... Read More ›

Photo by Monique Carboni

John Patrick Shanley doesn’t write traditional bios for his playbills. Instead, he writes about being kicked out of multiple Catholic schools, put on academic probation in college, and then joining the Marines. “When you see Doubt, I think it’s ... Read More ›

Anne Frank has been called “a symbol for the lost promise of the children who died in the Holocaust.”

Out of the many artists who have died too soon, the Jewish teen is ... Read More ›

Who’s Who in The MLK Project? The play takes place in the present time in various Chicago neighborhoods. As we meet each character, they flash back to events that happened in the past – ... Read More ›

Our audience and cast alike have enjoyed inhabiting the space between fact and fiction during Isaac’s Eye; trying to keep the facts written on the chalkboard in mind while also exploring the what-could-have-been fiction of ... Read More ›

GENIUSES AT ODDS

As of the mid-fifteenth century, human understanding of the universe and its workings on a scientific level had progressed little since the Ancient Greeks.

Conceptualized portrait of Robert Hooke by Rita Greer, ... Read More ›