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Theatre Building Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Cause Description:
THEATRE BUILDING CHICAGO celebrates its 29th season as an incubator for developing and nurturing new and emerging creative talent in the theatre. THEATRE BUILDING CHICAGO serves as a crossroads for Chicago’s grassroots theatre. THEATRE BUILDING CHICAGO encourages both acclaimed and emerging theatre companies and artists. We provide unique space and technical, marketing and consulting services. Over 1,000 artists in 16 theatrical presentations and 315 special events call Theatre Building Chicago home each year. Since opening its doors on March 15, 1977, Theatre Building Chicago – Chicago’s very own theatrical crossroads - has hosted more than 753 plays, 459 theatre companies, 1,037,024 audience members, 8715 events with 23,850 performances, and 28,724 actors, designers, directors and other theatre artists. THEATRE BUILDING CHICAGO is also devoted to the cultivation of musical theatre writers, lyricists and composers through a special writers workshop and developmental presentation program. This season we present 24 new musical works in a variety of styles and formats. Over the last two decades we have premiered over 120 new musicals in Chicago and seen several of them soar into other productions on Broadway and across the country. THEATRE BUILDING CHICAGO offers an intensive and comprehensive internship program that offers theatre students the opportunity to break into the field. Our interns have gone on to careers at institutions both here and abroad such as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the League of Chicago Theatres, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Teatro Sperimentale Spoleto. THEATRE BUILDING CHICAGO serves as a forum for a variety of important community and civic events – people have voted, married and memorialized every kind of life event at THEATRE BUILDING CHICAGO. THEATRE BUILDING CHICAGO is proud of its place in the Chicago performing arts community. We celebrate the vision of our founders, Ruth E. Higgins and Byron Schaffer, Jr., who brought a great idea to life. We are grateful for the generosity of all the individuals and institutions that have lent us support. We admire the vision of all the artists who have shared their talent by creating and crafting their work at the crossroads of Chicago theatre – THEATRE BUILDING CHICAGO. Mission Theatre Building Chicago maintains a steady commitment to the performing arts community and strives to promote, develop and strengthen both emerging and established artists and organizations by: • Providing subsidized space, equipment and support for performing groups, • Developing and producing new musicals, • Providing opportunities for emerging artists, administrators and performing groups.

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Website: http://theatrebuildingchicago.org/

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