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Pictured: Eric Gerard, Jennifer Latimore, Kayla Raelle Holder, DiMonte Henning and Ayanna Bria Bakari. Photo by Frank Ishman.

I first saw Stick Fly in 2015 at the Windy City Playhouse in a ... Read More ›

Pictured: Sandra Delgado. Photo by Joe Mazza–Brave Lux.

Bobby ... Read More ›

Pictured: Cher Álvarez. Photo by Frank Ishamn.

Henrik Ibsen’s original version of A Doll’s House ... Read More ›

Pictured: Lavina Jadhwani. Photo by Joe Mazza—Brave Lux.

Bobby Kennedy: ... Read More ›

Thank you so much for joining us for the first production of our 2019/20 season.

Back in the dark ages, before the internet and iPods and digital downloads, I used to scour the ... Read More ›

If someone had sat you down eight or so years ago and told you that they were developing a hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton, you would have laughed and not believed them. This in ... Read More ›

There are so many reasons to be excited about this production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom it’s hard to know where to begin. As a theatre in which the word is the primary source ... Read More ›

Twelfth Night is considered to be Shakespeare’s greatest comedy. I think the play earns this accolade because although it is filled with the usual stretches of imagination that come with twins, mistaken identities and cross-dressing, ... Read More ›

Pictured: Larry Yando and Shannon Cochran. Photo by Michael Brosilow.

My initial attraction to any play to be produced at Writers Theatre is the passion of the director. That is particularly true ... Read More ›