Theatre Reunion Weekend at the Newly Renovated Getz Theater Center

News Office Staff / Oct 15, 2018

The Theatre Reunion Weekend features a special performance of the 2018-19 Mainstage season opener, 鈥淭he Penelopiad鈥 by Margaret Atwood and directed by AJ Ware 鈥09.

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The weekend begins with an opening performance of the ’s 2018-19 Mainstage season opener, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (author of The Handmaid’s Tale). The performance is designed with a student cast and all-alumni team under the direction of Theatre alum AJ Ware ’09. This will be the first production in the newly renovated Courtyard Theater mainstage at the . The Getz Theater Center underwent a two-year renovation, having the main auditorium transformed into a seated theater. The new construction has four professional-quality stages, a state-of-the-art scene shop, stocked costume shop, and dedicated makeup/prosthetics and lighting labs. A tour of the theater is scheduled for Saturday, October 20.

Along with the opening performance and building tour, there will be comments by special guests Mark Kelly HDR ’17, Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and Jim Jacobs HDR ’14, co-creator of the hit musical Grease and benefactor of the Jim Jacobs Musical Theatre Scholarship.

For a full schedule of weekend activities, visit the .

 



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