BWW Q&A: Director Katie Spelman on WAITRESS at Paramount Theatre
by Joshua Wright - January 30, 2025
What is more American than apple pie? A small-town
waitress with a dream and the ingredients for success! Sugar, butter, flour. These aren’t the only ingredients Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker, uses to make her famous pies. Stuck in a small town and a loveless
marriage, Jenna unexpectedly ...
ONCE to be Presented at Writers Theatre in February
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 30, 2023
Writers Theatre will continue its 2022/23 Season with the Tony Award-winning musical Once, based on the 2007 film written and directed by John Carney. ...
Past Shows
Las Meninas
3/24 - 5/21/2017
Pulitzer Prize-nominated Nottage's irreverent, incisive, majestic, and moving reconsideration of the historical scandal that rocks Louis XIV's court when his queen is presented with a ...
The House of Martin Guerre
2/18 - 4/2/2017
book: Leslie Arden, Anna Theresa Cascio; lyrics: Leslie Arden; music: Leslie Arden; dir: Geoff Button....
Wit
1/20 - 3/12/2017
Wit, a one-act play written by Margaret Edson, is a powerful and poignant exploration of mortality and the human spirit in the face of terminal ...
Cinderella at the Theater of Potatoes
11/12 - 1/8/2017
Andra Velis Simon; dir: Sean Graney. World Premiere...
Cinderella at the Theater of Potatoes
11/12 - 1/8/2017
Andra Velis Simon; dir: Sean Graney. World Premiere...
You On the Moors Now
9/9 - 10/30/2016
Jaclyn Backhaus; dir: Devon De Mayo....
You On the Moors Now
9/9 - 10/30/2016
Jaclyn Backhaus; dir: Devon De Mayo....
Adding Machine: A Musical
3/18 - 5/14/2016
book: Jason Loewith, Joshua Schmidt; lyrics: Jason Loewith, Joshua Schmidt; music: Joshua Schmidt; dir: Geoff Button....
The Glass Menagerie
1/22 - 3/5/2016
Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and ...
Burning Bluebeard
11/19 - 1/10/2016
Jay Torrence; dir: Halena Kays....
The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide
10/30 - 11/8/2015
Sean Graney; dir: Joel Ewing, Mechelle Moe....
American Idiot
8/28 - 10/24/2015
American Idiot is a sung-through rock musical based on the concept album of the same name by rock band Green Day. After a run at ...
All Our Tragic
6/20 - 8/16/2015
Sean Graney; dir: Sean Graney....
Ivywild
5/1 - 6/16/2013
Chopin Theatre: - Jay Torrence; dir: Halena Kays....
Coriolanus
3/19 - 5/4/2013
Chopin Theatre: - William Shakespeare; dir: Geoff Button....
Romeo and Juliet
5/17 - 6/24/2012
6 Characters in Search of an Author
1/26 - 3/11/2012
Pirates of Penzance (remount)
11/22 - 1/22/2012
Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses
9/6 - 10/23/2011
Videos
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Waitress
PARAMOUNT THEATRE (2/12 - 3/30) | |
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Ghosts: A Slow Theatre Ritual for Mental Health & Collective Healing
The Little Studio at the Fine Arts Building (3/19 - 3/20) | |
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I and You
Citadel Theatre (2/21 - 3/23)
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Fool for Love
Steppenwolf Theatre Company (1/30 - 3/16) | |
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& Juliet (Chicago)
The Auditorium (7/22 - 8/2) | |
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iLUMINATE
McAninch Arts Center (5/3 - 5/3) | |
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Dog Sees God
Governors State University (4/3 - 4/6) | |
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Operetta Around the World
Great Lakes Operetta (3/15 - 3/16) | |
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Beetlejuice
Cadillac Palace Theatre (3/11 - 3/16) | |
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