Love and Information at Trap Door Theatre

Chicago Theatres Celebrate Women's History Month In March With A Wide Selection Of Productions

February 29, 2024

Celebrate Women's History Month with Chicago Theatres featuring a variety of productions honoring the vital role of women in American history.

Cast Announced for World Premiere of VILLETTE at Lookingglass Theatre Company

January 12, 2023

Lookingglass Theatre Company has announced the cast for the World Premiere of Villette by Sara Gmitter, adapted from the Charlotte Brontë novel.

Cast Announced for SCIENCE FICTION / DOUBLE FEATURE: A ROCKY HORROR PICTURE PARTY at Haven

October 24, 2022

Haven has announced the cast of players for Science Fiction / Double Feature: A Rocky Horror Picture Party, an immersive Rocky Horror-themed Halloween Party on Saturday, October 29 & Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 9 pm at Haven’s resident home, The Den Theatre.

Samantha Williams, Paul Alexander Nolan & More to Star in LIFE AFTER at Goodman Theatre

April 27, 2022

Goodman Theatre announced casting for Life After by rising star writer/lyricist/composer Britta Johnson, directed by Annie Tippe. Leading the cast of nine is Samantha Williams as teenaged Alice—a young woman who, in search of facts, uncovers a more complicated truth as she pieces together events of the fateful night that changed her family forever.

Trap Door Theatre Presents QUEEN C

September 29, 2021

Laura Ruohonen creates her own special world in her plays, whether depicting a seventeenth-century court or a modern apartment block. Ruohonen's texts are both poetic and down-to-earth, combining humour and tragedy into an organic whole.

Tickets Are on Sale Now for Trap Door Theatre's DECOMPOSED THEATRE

November 16, 2020

This winter, Trap Door Theatre will collaborate with eight directors to create a series of episodes adapted from Matei Visniec's Decomposed Theatre Or The Human Trashcan. From Dec. 3, 2020, to Feb.4, 2021, a unique adaptation from Visniec's 'dialogic spectacle of monologues' will be performed live on Zoom between the resident Chicago ensemble and an international group of guest performers and directors.

Trap Door Theatre Extends ALAS

September 02, 2020

Trap Door Theatre will extend the run of ALAS, a fragment of Matei Visniec's Cabaret of Words that was translated by Daniela Șilindean. After a positive critical reception and remarkable turnout, the show will close on September 24.

Trap Door Theatre Presents Digital Production, ALAS

July 09, 2020

Trap Door Theatre will present ALAS, a fragment of Matei Visniec's Cabaret of Words that was translated by Daniela Șilindean. Chicago's ensemble has invited members of its sister company, Trap Door International in Barcelona, to join the digital production, which opens July 31. ALAS will be performed in a combination of Afrikaans, Catalan, Italian, Spanish, and English. 

REALITY THEATRE is Next Up for Trap Open, a Trap Door Theatre Program

January 28, 2020

Written by Julia Lederer and directed by Emily Lotspeich, 'Reality Theatre' is a fast-moving collection that explores our anxieties about change, the acceleration of technology, and maintaining human relationships in a world quickly becoming less and less human.

Trap Door Theatre Presents LOVE AND INFORMATION

August 20, 2019

The Trap Door Theatre presents Love and Information.

46th Annual Non–Equity Jeff Awards Nominations Announced

April 22, 2019

The Jeff Awards announced today via a special video, a total of 132 nominations in 22 categories for the 46th Annual Non-Equity Jeff Awards.