Lookingglass Theatre Company
Lookingglass Theatre Company is a non-profit, ensemble-based theater company located in Chicago, Illinois. Their pieces tend to focus on the spectacular and the physical.
As of June 2011, Lookingglass has won 42 Joseph Jefferson Awards.
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History
Lookingglass was founded in 1988 by David Catlin, David Schwimmer, Lawrence DiStasi, David Kersnar, Eva Barr, Joy Gregory, Andy White, and Thom Cox. Their first production Through the Lookingglass was directed by David Kersnar and took place at the Great Room in Jones Residential College on the Northwestern University campus in the fall of 1988.
They have since performed more than fifty world-premiere original works (their most recent being Sara Gmitter's In the Garden: A Darwinian Love Story in 2014).
Lookingglass was the recipient of the 2011 Regional Theatre Tony Award.[1]
Facilities
An itinerant theater company for years, Lookingglass finally moved into a permanent home on June 14, 2003—a brand-new theater in the newly renovated Water Tower Water Works on Chicago's Magnificent Mile.
Its first production in the new space was an adaptation of Studs Terkel's Race, adapted and directed by ensemble member David Schwimmer.
Morris Architects Planners designed the new space in the black-box style, meaning that the seating area may be completely rearranged for each production. The maximum capacity is 270 persons, counting those in the removable balcony. There is also a studio space located in the second floor of the facility for smaller events and productions.[2]
Production history
2015-2016 season
- Moby Dick (add-on)
- Treasure Island
- Blood Wedding
- Thaddeus and Slocum: A Vaudeville Adventure
2014-2015 season
- Death Tax
- Lookingglass Alice
- Title and Deed
2013-2014 season
- The North China Lover
- The Little Prince
- In the Garden
Past seasons
- 2012-2013
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- Metamorphoses
- Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
- Still Alice
- Big Lake Big City
- 2011-2012
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- The Great Fire
- "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting" by Edward Schmidt
- Rick Bayless in Cascabel
- Eastland: An Original Musical
- 2010–2011
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- Peter Pan: A Play
- Ethan Frome
- The Last Act of Lilka Kadison
- 2009–2010
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- Fedra: Queen of Haiti
- Icarus
- Trust
- Hephaestus
- Lookingglass Alice
- 2008–2009
- 2007–2008
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- No Child...
- Hephaestus
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Nelson Algren: For Keeps and A Single Day
- Lookingglass Alice
- 2006–2007
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- Clay
- Argonautika
- The Wooden Breeks
- Black Diamond
- Lookingglass Alice
- 2005–2006
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- Hephaestus
- Manuscript Found in Saragossa
- Sita Ram
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Wants and Needs
- 2004–2005
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- 1984
- Lookingglass Alice
- Hillbilly Antigone
- 2003–2004
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- The Secret in the Wings
- Great Men of Science Nos. 21 and 22
- The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World
- 2002–2003
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- Hard Times
- Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession
- 2001–2002
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- They All Fall Down: The Richard Nickel Story
- La Luna Muda
- Summertime
- 2000–2001
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- Metamorphosis
- Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day
- Hard Times
- 1999–2000
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- Her Name Was Danger
- Eleven Rooms of Proust
- Lookingglass Hamlet
- 1998-99
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- Metamorphoses
- The Great Fire
- The Baron in the Trees
- 1997-98
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- The Arabian Nights
- George
- The Idiot
- 1996-97
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- The Vanishing Twin
- Eye Plus One: In the Eye of the Beholder Plus Lookingglass Works in Progress
- 28: Pictures of Life in a High-Tech World
- 1995-96
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- The Naked King
- S/M
- 1994-95
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- Dreaming Lucia
- HereAfter
- 1993-94
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- The Master and Margarita
- Up Against It
- 1992-93
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- The Arabian Nights
- The Scarlet Letter
- In the Eye of the Beholder
- 1991-92
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- Eurydice
- All Soul's Day
- Lookingglass Lab: Slap My Bald Head and The Third Voyage
- 1990-91
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- The Jungle
- The Secret in the Wings
- West
- 1989-90
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- Of One Blood
- Treatment
- The Odyssey
- 1988
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- Through the Looking Glass
