COVID19 Response

What will this New Year bring? 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.

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.

We have, of course, decided it’s best to suspend in-person theater until the situation clarifies. 

The Players are becoming resourceful in providing ways to participate on either side of the metaphorical footlights through the opportunities that technology offers us.  Our First Friday Staged Reading Series is once again active through the medium of Zoom; and our fall success, the 2020 Evening of Horror & Suspense in the New-fangled Physically-distanced Tradition, streamed live on our Youtube channel for Halloween, was our most ambitious offering to date.