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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 ›

Director Kimberly Senior discussed with Literary Manager Bobby Kennedy her experience with the original diary and the unique features of this production of the play.

Bobby Kennedy: When Artistic Director Michael Halberstam first ... Read More ›

Last fall, the National Endowment for the Arts launched a new online resource for its Our Town creative placemaking grant program called “Exploring Our Town” – featuring Writers Theatre new theater center ... Read More ›

Today we kick off the 9th annual tour of the The MLK Project: The Fight for Civil Rights with a free performance for all at the Chicago History Museum! For an inside perspective, here’s ... Read More ›

What a year! We’re thrilled that we’re making an appearance on several publications’ “best of theatre” lists for 2014. Here’s a roundup of these mentions. We hope at least one Writers Theatre ... Read More ›

Early in our design process, as the site plan and building layout began to take shape, Studio Gang suggested that they’d like to re-use as many of the trees removed from the ... 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 ›

We’re thrilled that this holiday season, Writers Theatre has been selected to partner with Neiman Marcus Northbrook as part of its 2014 giving campaign, the HeART of Neiman Marcus.

As part of this ... Read More ›

On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, Writers Theatre took a major step forward in the journey towards a permanent home with the Ceremonial Groundbreaking on its new theatre center. This important and exciting ... 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 ›