The Comedy of Errors
September 16 – October 17
SEAN GRANEY + 6 ACTORS + 20 CHARACTERS
= ONE INCREDIBLE EVENT!
Innovative director Sean Graney (The Hypocrites) re-imagines Shakespeare’s funniest farce about mistaken identity, mental illness, and xenophobia. The story of two sets of twins separated at birth, The Comedy of Errors will be a theatrical event full of energetic slapstick and lyrical comedy, performed by six virtuoso actors. This season opener represents the next step in Graney’s exploration of classic farce at Court Theatre, following What the Butler Saw and The Mystery of Irma Vep.
Next Up
Home
November 11 – December 12
Originally produced by the legendary Negro Ensemble Company in 1981, Home is a poetic story of the resiliency of the human spirit told against the backdrop of the political and social upheavals of the 1960s and 70s. In 2008, Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson directed an Audelco Award-winning production of Home at Signature Theatre Company in New York, which the New York Times called “a portrait of the black experience…that finds a homey beauty not in suffering but in carrying on.”
2010 Jeff Awards
Court Theatre was honored by an incredible 18 Jeff nominations for the 2009/10 Season including nods for The Comedy of Errors director Sean Graney and his production of The Mystery of Irma Vep last fall at Court.
Mary Beth Fisher is Chicago’s Leading Lady
Mary Beth Fisher receives Chicago’s Leading Lady Award from the Sarah Siddons Society for her performance in The Year of Magical Thinking.
Court Welcomes New Executive Director
We are pleased to welcome Stephen J. Albert as Court Theatre’s new Executive Director.
The 2010/11 Season
William Shakespeare’s THE COMEDY OF ERRORS * Samm-Art Williams’s HOME * Edward Albee’s THREE TALL WOMEN * Virgina Woolf’s ORLANDO * The Gershwins’ PORGY AND BESS
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