Gabrielle Randle-Bent didn’t start off as a theater kid. The Texas native took AP science classes and grew up playing volleyball and basketball. But bad asthma kept her off the court and brought her to the stage.
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Learn more about Court Theatre’s production of The Gospel at Colonus, its next installment in the Oedipus Trilogy, opening May 2023.
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For Court Theatre executive director Angel Ysaguirre, the magic of the stage exists in the actors’ ability to connect with the audience—to see their smiles and their tears, and to hear their laughter, gasps and applause.
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We sat down with Ron O.J. Parson and Aaron Mays to hear more about the Spotlight Reading Series at Court Theatre, a citywide program that connects the Court’s theatrical resources with community partners to present classic plays by writers of color.
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UChicago Classics Professor Sarah Nooter explores questions of agency, truth, and fate in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex.
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Last month, as part of a new partnership between Court Theatre and the Office of Civic Engagement (OCE), 22 of Chicago’s established and emerging civic actors explored what it was like to become literal actors.
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Like many of his novels, Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March plays out across Chicago. Read about five significant city locations for both Bellow and March, and plan your own literary pilgrimage.
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Behind-the-scenes with Manual Cinema’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
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In 1947, Arthur Miller called All My Sons his tragedy for “the common man”: Miller hoped his effort to re-imagine and re-purpose the Greek tragic form would speak directly to the lives and psyches of modern Americans.
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