Out Here

Life happens outside of your comfort zone. Out Here is an exciting new musical, developed through a dynamic collaboration between Court Theatre and the University of Chicago. Audiences will have the rare opportunity to be the first to experience this fresh and intimate look at a family reconfiguring itself and rediscovering joy.

Dawn has a house, a husband, and a family, but she wants more. She wants her ex-girlfriend, Robin. She wants nothing to change and she wants everything to change, and she wants it all on her own terms. As she’s caught between what’s been and what’s next, Dawn must learn to abandon expectations, harmonize with loved ones, and trust the process. If she can do all that, she might just learn a new song. Strikingly original and unabashedly queer, Out Here explores the freedom of relinquishing control, and how, sometimes, you have to break something apart to create something better.

Led by acclaimed director Chay Yew, making his Court debut, Out Here arrives as a bold, innovative work that invites Chicago audiences to be among the very first to witness its evolution—bringing the 2025/26 season to a jubilant conclusion.

Accessible Performances:

• Touch Tour: Saturday, May 2 at 12:30pm
• Audio Description and ASL Interpretation: Saturday, May 2 at 2:00pm
• Open Captioning: Sunday, May 3 at 2:00pm

This production was developed in partnership with the Arts Labs research project at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

Supported by The Charles Newell Production Fund