Chicago Children's Theatre Reveals 20th Anniversary Season
by Stephi Wild - Jun 10, 2025
Chicago Children’s Theatre turns 20 next season. To celebrate, the company has planned a 2025-26 season that’s a fond look back at some of its favorite live theater experiences for families over the past 20 years.
Review: SORRY WE DIDN'T DIE AT SEA, Park Theatre
by Cindy Marcolina - Sep 15, 2023
At its core, Sorry We Didn’t Die at Sea is a tad too simplistic to make a proper splash. It has a Beckettian aura to it, but this is, sadly, left unexploited. Absurdist black humour shape-shifts continuously into smart thriller and back in engaging flourishes that explode in often magnetic moments.
SORRY WE DIDN'T DIE AT SEA Comes to the Park Theatre in September
by Stephi Wild - Jul 24, 2023
A first translation of Italian playwright Emanuele Aldrovandi’s satirical, absurdist play darkly refracts Europe’s migration crisis. In a not-too-distant future, the continent's economies have collapsed, and three travellers find that the tables have turned as they are forced to flee the very countries which had once closed their borders to migrants.
Chicago Children's Theatre Reveals 2023-24 Season
by Stephi Wild - May 25, 2023
Chicago Children’s Theatre, Chicago’s largest professional theater devoted to children and young families, announced its 19th season today, launching in the fall with a world premiere play about Ben Franklin, filled with history and science, followed by two CCT “forever family favorites.”
HOUSE OF THE EXQUISITE CORPSE Announced At Chopin Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 5, 2022
This October, dare to enter the HOUSE OF THE EXQUISITE CORPSE, a horror peep-show puppet-theater anthology. Peer through keyholes, cracks, and hidden doors to discover surreal worlds that will terrify and amaze.
Chicago Children's Theatre Announces 2021-22 Season Of Resilience; In-Person Performances Return in November
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 12, 2021
Chicago Children's Theatre, Chicago's largest professional theater company devoted exclusively to children and young families, will launch its 2021-2022 “Season of Resilience” this fall not with public performances, but in-school ROAR Residencies (Residencies of Arts and Resilience), developed with the Lurie Center for Childhood Resilience, to support kindergartners and first graders returning to school after a year of COVID.
Chicago Children's Theatre & The CSO To Debut MAYBE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 19, 2021
What good can a splash of color do in a community of gray? A neighborhood radically transformed for the better is the answer in Maybe Something Beautiful, a new virtual short film for kids, families and schools from Chicago Children's Theatre and the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO).