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Victory Gardens Theater Will Reopen With David Mamet's HENRY JOHNSON


by Stephi Wild - March 07, 2025

The Biograph Theatre, home to the Victory Gardens Theater is set to reopen next month with the midwest premiere of David Mamet's Henry Johnson. The company has been dormant since 2022....

Past Shows

New Plays for a New Year


Victory Gardens Theater announces New Plays for a New Year, a one-night-only online reading of new ten-minute plays on February 12, 2021 from 7pm to ...

The First Deep Breath
The First Deep Breath
11/15 - 12/22/2019


Originally developed as part of Victory Gardens 2018 Ignition Festival of New Plays, The First Deep Breath tells the story of Pastor Albert Jones who ...

Tiny Beautiful Things
Tiny Beautiful Things
9/6 - 10/13/2019


Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos, Tiny Beautiful Things personifies the questions and answers that ...

Miriam for President
Miriam for President
6/7 - 7/7/2019


Miriam hates to be known as?“that girl who got kidnapped then escaped that sex trafficking ring.”?She wants to be known as Miriam, your top candidate ...

Cambodian Rock Band
Cambodian Rock Band
4/5 - 5/5/2019


Part comedy, part mystery, part rock concert, this thrilling story toggles back and forth in time, as father and daughter face the music of the ...

Pipeline
Pipeline
2/1 - 3/3/2019


Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son, Omari, opportunities her students will never ...

Rightlynd
Rightlynd
11/9 - 12/23/2018


Rightlynd is Chicago's 51st Ward. The L doesn't run here anymore and it is full of abandoned storefronts, crumbling apartment buildings, and its fair share ...

Indecent
Indecent
9/21 - 11/4/2018


Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive) tells the deeply moving story of the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Jewish playwright Sholem ...

Chicago is Burning
5/31 - 6/30/2013


Zacek-McVay Theater: - Marcus Gardley; dir: Chay Yew....

The Whale
4/5 - 5/5/2013


Zacek-McVay Theater: - Samuel D. Hunter; dir: Joanie Schultz....

Disconnect
1/25 - 2/24/2013


Zacek-McVay Theater: - Anupama Chandrasekhar; dir: Dexter Bullard....

Oedipus el Rey
6/29 - 7/29/2012

We Are Proud to Present...
3/30 - 4/29/2012


Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Jackie Sibblies Drury; dir: Michael Garces....

Ameriville
1/27 - 2/26/2012


Performed by the celebrated performance ensemble Universes, this thrilling exploration of the American experience prowls the dark corners of our contemporary landscape and asks, "If ...


At the dawn of the electrical age, a new medical device is developed to pacify "hysterical" women, but it produces a shockingly different result. This ...

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