A new version of Jules Vernes' Around the World in 80 Days will be the only all-new production in the Lookingglass Theatre Company's 2007-8 season. Adapted by Laura Eason, the show will run in April 2008, as part of the company's four-show season.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the Lookingglass season will start in October with
No Child, a one-woman show from actress
Nilaja Sun. Already having played for almost a year off Broadway, the show features Sun inhabiting a slew of characters inside the New York public school system. Completing the season are two reprises of previous Lookingglass shows, including a January remount of
Hephaestus, which previously had a short, sold out run in 2005, and the season's conclusion next summer,
Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day. The latter show, which previously ran in 2000, will see the return of Thomas J. Cox in his role as Algren.
All shows will run at the Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave. Visit
www.lookingglasstheatre.org for more information.
