Dates: 10/18/2024 - 12/1/2024
📍 Theatre: City Lit Theater Company
URBAN BROADWAY THEATRE GROUP
1020 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue
Chicago, IL 60660
Phone: 8723624407
Tickets: $35.00
The Chicago non-Equity premiere of this searing August Wilson drama about six friends in the Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1948 mourning the death of their friend Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, a rising blues star trapped by his circumstances and cut down in his prime. One of Wilson’s “Pittsburgh Cycle” of ten plays depicting the African American experience in each of the 20th Century’s decades.
City Lit Theater has revealed programming for the 2026–27 season. The four-play season will include one world premiere adaptation, two world premieres of new plays, and a new staging of August Wilson’s King Hedley II.
City Lit’s 45th season will continue in October with the world premiere of Timothy Griffin’s STRANGE CARGO: THE DOOM OF THE DEMETER. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
Open Space Arts will present a three-weekend extension of its production of SCANDALOUS BOY, by David Atfield. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.
The cast and creative team have been announced for Open Space Arts’ season-closing production of SCANDALOUS BOY, by David Atfield. This will be the “International Premiere” of the play, which had its 2014 world premiere in Atfield’s native Australia.
The Joseph Jefferson Awards has announced the recipients for theater excellence among Non-Equity theater during the 2024 season. Check out the full list of winners here!
Celebrating its 51st anniversary awarding recognition for Non-Equity theater, the Joseph Jefferson Awards revealed its nominations for theater excellence among Non-Equity theater during the 2024 season. Learn more about the nominations.
City Lit Theater will follow its critical and popular hit THE HOUSE OF IDEAS with August Wilson’s SEVEN GUITARS, directed by veteran Chicago director and actor Manny Buckley.
City Lit Theater has announced its programming for the 2024-25 season, the company’s 44th. Learn more about the full season lineup here!
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Next Fall St. Bonaventure, 1625 W. Diversey, Chicago (2/05-2/28) |
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