Court Theatre’s Learning Guides and Content Collections focus on the historical context, themes, and artistic processes that transform a literary text into a piece of theatre.
Though each guide is specifically tailored to the educational opportunities presented by each production, typical Learning Guides include contextual background, character analyses, glossaries, classroom activities, and multimedia explorations of a production’s development.
Content Collections cover long-term projects that are Court hallmarks, like our staging of our Oedipus Trilogy or our completion of August Wilson’s Century Cycle. Content Collections cover these multi-production projects holistically, while also connecting the individual, show-specific Learning Guides therein.
Court provides this content free of charge to enhance our education initiatives. Please contact us before adapting the material for a different use. We ask that you credit Court Theatre in any classroom use.
2025/26 Season Learning Guides
Big White Fog
The Taming of the Shrew
Content Collections
Reading Lists and Resources
THICK: a crumbling freak show Bibliography
Big White Fog Library Guide (Courtesy of the University of Chicago Libraries)
Big White Fog Reading List
A Raisin in the Sun Reading List
Revolutionary Syllabus
Archived Learning Guides
The Adventures of Augie March
All My Sons
Antigone
Berlin
Blues for an Alabama Sky
The Belle of Amherst
Caroline, or Change
The Chairs
The Comedy of Errors
East Texas Hot Links
Falsettos
Fen
Fences
Flyin’ West
Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein
Gem of the Ocean
The Glass Menagerie
The Gospel at Colonus
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Hamlet
The Hard Problem
Hay Fever
Home
An Iliad
The Illusion
The Island
Invisible Man
Iphigenia in Aulis
Jitney
King Hedley II
The Lion in Winter
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Man of la Mancha
Mary Stuart
The Mountaintop
The Mystery of Irma Vep
Native Son
Oedipus Rex
The Originalist
Phèdre
The Piano Lesson
Porgy and Bess
Proof
Raisin
A Raisin in the Sun
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Skylight
Spunk
Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution
Three Tall Women
Twelfth Night
Oedipus Rex
Orlando
Wait Until Dark
Water by the Spoonful
What the Butler Saw
The Year of Magical Thinking
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