Past Productions

A Passage of India

APRIL 8TH - MAY 18TH | 2008 | THE THEATRE BUILDING, CHICAGO, IL

Postcard Picture of A Passage to India

BY E. M. Forster
ADAPTED BY Martin Sherman
DIRECTED BY Elizabeth Carlin-Metz

“Sumptuous artistry, starting with the set and costume designs, and—in one simple but glorious moment worthy of Julie Taymor—a thrilling evocation of an elephant ride.”
-- Chicago Free Press

Mother Courage and Her Children

SEPTEMBER 11TH - NOVEMBER 5TH | 2006 | THE THEATRE BUILDING, CHICAGO, IL

Postcard Picture of Mother Courage and Her Children

BY Bertholt Brecht
ADAPTED BY David Hare
DIRECTED BY Elizabeth Carlin-Metz

“…a combustible mix… eclectic, stylized, and riveting… Seldom have eight actors created a world so full. Highly Recommended.” - Larry Bommer, Chicago Reader


Anna Karenina

SEPTEMBER 12TH - OCTOBER 20TH | 2005 | THE THEATRE BUILDING, CHICAGO, IL

Postcard Picture of Anna Karenina

BY Tolstoy
ADAPTED BY Helen Edmunson
DIRECTED BY Elizabeth Carlin-Metz

"A play this good should be written in the sky—the greatest production of Anna Karenina I've ever seen." - Yevgeny Yevtushenko



King Lear

SEPTEMBER 8TH - OCTOBER 24TH | 2004 | THE THEATRE BUILDING, CHICAGO, IL

Postcard Picture of King Lear

BY William Shakespeare
DIRECTED BY Elizabeth Carlin-Metz

Top Ten 2004 Chicago Plays “Then there are the shows that seem re-felt from start to finish, offered up as if there was no precedent for their discoveries. Such revelations are even more wonderful when the source is as deceptively familiar as King Lear, happily not so familiar when the Vitalist Theatre reinvent[s] the ultimate dysfunctional clan” - Performink

THE THREE LIVES OF LUCIE CABROL

JANUARY 24TH - MARCH 3RD | 2003 | THE THEATRE BUILDING, CHICAGO, IL

Postcard Picture of The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol

BY John Berger
ADAPTED BY Simon McBurney & Mark Wheatly
DEVISED BY the Theatre de Complicite
DIRECTED BY Elizabeth Carlin-Metz

"Highly Recommended. The Vitalist ensemble works beautifully together. Like Lucie Cabrol herself, this production is marked by great emotional and physical vitality. Vitalist has crafted a work of great loveliness, power, and depth." - Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times

FLOATING RHODA AND THE GLUE MAN

OCTOBER 17TH - NOVEMBER 22ND | 1998 | THE BLUE RIDER THEATRE, CHICAGO, IL

BY Eve Ensler
DIRECTED BY Elizabeth Carlin-Metz

Mill on the Floss

NOVEMBER 21ST - DECEMBER 21ST| 1997 | THE BLUE RIDER THEATRE, CHICAGO, IL

BY George Eliot
DIRECTED BY Elizabeth Carlin-Metz

 

Second Wave Productions

Emerging Artists Series

365 Days / 365 Plays

JUNE 4TH -8TH| 2007 | THE CHICAGO VIETNAM VETERANS' MEMORIAL PARK, CHICAGO, IL

BY Suzan-Lori Parks
DIRECTED BY Jaclynn Jutting

The Bay at Nice

JUNE 13TH - FEB 10TH| 2008 | GORILLA TANGO THEATRE, CHICAGO, IL

BY David Hare
DIRECTED BY Jaclynn Jutting

 

Moon over ocean waves
The Night Season
Now playing through
October 17, 2009
Thu - Sat at 7:30 p.m.,
Sun at 2:00 p.m.
at Theatre Building Chicago
1225 W Belmont, Chicago

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Rebecca Lenkiewicz
A playwright, poet and actress. Her first play Soho: A Tale of Table Dancers won a Fringe First at the Edinburgh Festival, while her second play The Night Season won the 2004 Critics Circle Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright. Lenkiewicz’s other plays include Shoreditch Madonna, Blue Moon Over Poplar and Her Naked Skin, which premiered in 2008 on the Olivier stage at the National Theatre, making her the first living female playwright to have an original play produced on the Olivier stage.

Read more about Rebecca Lenkiewicz at our Playwright page.