COVID19 Response

Happy Autumn 2021! As you know, the coronavirus crisis continues, caution and optimism seesaw as news of surges and vaccinations succeed each other. As a community organization, we want to be mindful of making the best possible decisions in relation to the safety and security of our audiences, performers, and production people. We are following the lead of our city, state, and federal elected officials as we implement strategies recommended by public health authorities and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) for our organization.

If you’d like to join us in encouraging the vaccine-hesitant to get over that hurdle, feel free to send a pic, your fully vaccinated date and any words to be added to our VacciNation wall of honor.

This has been a hard time for theater, especially professional theaters. Chicago’s theaters, large and small, have had to cancel performances, and, sadly, some have been forced to close their doors for good.  As a community theater, we are blessed with little overhead, so we’re still here and our future survival seems unproblematic. As always, we are grateful for any financial support you may wish to offer.

With our August Staged Reading, we have begun a transition to in-person theater with our reading of Christopher Fry’s A Phoenix Too Frequent. Current conditions decided us to take some common sense precautions: asking for all to mask except performers, spacing chairs and so forth.  This August and September, we took advantage of the safer outdoor spaces with our Pop-Up Shakespeare scenes in Nichols Park.