American Theater Company
American Theater Company
1909 W. Byron Chicago IL 60613- Phone:
- 773-409-4125
- Website:
- http://www.atcweb.org
- Capacity:
- 107
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Current Events on Goldstar
Note: Some events offered through Goldstar at this venue are only available via email. Please refer to your past emails to view these events.
Disgraced: World-Premiere Play From Ayad Akhtar (The War Within)
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $35.00
- Our Price:
- SOLD OUT
American Theater Company presents the world-premiere of Disgraced, a drama penned by actor-playwright Ayad Akhtar (who co-wrote and starred in the award-winning 2005 film The War Within). This play, directed... Learn More.
Past Events on Goldstar
It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, a Christmas Classic
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $20.00
American Theater Company continues a Chicago holiday tradition with the 10th anniversary performance of their version of It's a Wonderful Life. ATC transforms into a 1940s radio studio to tell Capra's... Learn More.
The Amish Project: A Community Forgives Following a School Shooting
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
Five years ago, a 30-year-old man walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse and opened fire, killing five girls and himself. In a decision that shocked the world, the Amish community later that same day... Learn More.
Original R-Rated Version of Musical Grease at American Theater Company
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $40.00 - $50.00
- Our Price:
- $20.00 - $25.00
Original author Jim Jacobs teams up with director PJ Paparelli and choreographer Jim Corti to bring the original 1971 version of the musical Grease to the American Theater Company. The musical, with book,... Learn More.
Elton John and Tim Rice's Musical Aida at American Theater Company
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50 - $15.00
Bailiwick Chicago presents Elton John and Tim Rice's pop-rock musical, Aida, featuring modern dance choreography by Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, a six-piece band, and a cast of 20 actors, singers and dancers... Learn More.
Urban Musical Welcome to Arroyo's Premieres at American Theater Company
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
Set in New York City, two DJ narrators spin a heartwarming and hilarious tale of two siblings' desire to transform their family-run bar into the city's new cultural sensation. Combining the adolescent humor... Learn More.
Distracted: A Lively, Witty Look at Dealing With a Child's ADHD
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
When Mom and Dad's problems with Junior escalate, the advice from the world around them is to medicate. Does their son have ADHD or is he just a kid growing up in a hyperactive world? From the writer of the... Learn More.
It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play - A Holiday Show for the Whole Family
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
A Chicago holiday tradition continues when American Theater Company presents their version of It's a Wonderful Life. ATC transforms into a 1940's radio studio to tell Capra's classic story of one man's... Learn More.
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life), a New Musical from the Creators of Urinetown
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
The world's first family, a colony of salt-eating yeasts, float in the brine of the primordial soup under the rule of a tyrannical baritone. When resources deplete and fear pervades, the faith of a single-... Learn More.
Rock Musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch at American Theater Company
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $35.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50 - $20.00
American Theater Company transforms its theatrical warehouse into an underground nightclub for an imaginative new production of John Cameron Mitchell's hit rock musical. Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the... Learn More.
Topdog/Underdog: Pulitzer-Prize Winning Comic Drama of Two Brothers
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $35.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50 - $20.00
Suzan-Lori Parks' Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece explores two brothers: Lincoln, ex-"3-card" player, now legitimate entertainer, and Booth, a petty thief who wants to learn his brother's game, struggle... Learn More.
Sam Shepard's True West, a Clash Between Brothers
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $35.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50 - $20.00
Sam Shepard's most produced play tells the story of two brothers: Austin, an ambitious Hollywood screenwriter working on a potential million-dollar deal and Lee, a vagabond thief with a compulsion for six-... Learn More.
Sizzling Political Drama Celebrity Row from American Theater Company
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $35.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50 - $20.00
When a young lawyer defends the civil liberties of one of the country's most notorious criminals, her idealism stands face to face with a criminal genius who, along with his neighbors, has a plan of his own... Learn More.
Jonestown Tragedy The People's Temple by The Laramie Project Creators
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $35.00 - $40.00
- Our Price:
- $17.50 - $20.00
Jonestown, Guyana, 1978: An interracial religious group, led by their charismatic leader Jim Jones, have fled America to the remote jungles of South America to build a utopian community. From the creators of... Learn More.
Speech and Debate - The Fiercely Funny Off-Broadway Hit
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $17.50
This quick-witted and timely comedy tells the story of three misfits who team up to expose their teacher's online secrets while forming their high school's first Speech and Debate club. Speech and Debate is... Learn More.
Augusta, SNL's Nora Dunn Directs Chicago Premiere of Darkly Comic Look at Corporate America
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $17.50
American Theater Company presents the Chicago premiere of Richard Dresser's Augusta, directed by Saturday Night Live alum Nora Dunn. This searing dark comedy puts the clash between working people and... Learn More.
Half of Plenty: Hilarious and Touching Satire
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $17.50
American Theater Company presents Half of Plenty, a hilarious up-to-the-minute satire on the anxieties of modern living. A young woman tries to balance working at home with caring for her increasingly senile... Learn More.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, the Unforgettable Musical Classic
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The greatest American musical as you've never seen it before: bristling, sexy, dark and human. Ranchers and farmers clash as they try to carve out a piece of the American dream, forming the backdrop for a... Learn More.
William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs at American Theater Company
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $30.00 - $35.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00 - $17.50
This classic drama from William Inge (Bus Stop, Picnic), the master of repressed passions and simmering tension, is set in the Southwest during the oil boom of the 1920s. After an explosive fight with her... Learn More.
Electronic Baby - A '60s Rock Musical about Love and Cars
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $18.00 - $22.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00 - $11.00
Electronic Baby, a '60s Rock Musical takes the stage at the American Theater Company. This fun-filled production tells the story of a teenage girl who discovers love through her obsession with cars. And she... Learn More.
Powerful Drama Heritage from American Theater Company
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $15.00
From the team that brought you the celebrated American Dead comes this powerful drama of race and class relations. A combustible group of African-American and white prisoners are assigned to refurbish a... Learn More.
St. Scarlet, an Offbeat Irish-American Comedy
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $15.00
American Theater Company presents the Chicago premiere of Julia Jordan's St. Scarlet. Set on St. Patrick's Day, the play tells the story of an Irish-American family contending with simmering tensions and hot... Learn More.
Holiday Family Tradition It's A Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Picked by the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times as the "best holiday show around," the family classic returns to ATC in its inventive "radio play" form. The story you know and love supported by... Learn More.
Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $15.00
An overlooked masterpiece by Tenessee Williams, esteemed playwright of A Streetcar Named Desire, Orpheus Descending is sensual, lyrical and haunting. It's the story of a shopkeeper trapped in a deadly... Learn More.
Wonder Years-Style Family Comedy Leaving Iowa
American Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $25.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $15.00
In the tradition of TV's The Wonder Years, comes this nostalgic, feel good comedy hit about family vacations. Leaving Iowa is an old-fashioned family comedy that will tickle your funny bone, while tugging at... Learn More.
Map and Directions
American Theater Company is located at 1909 W. Byron, at Lincoln Avenue, two blocks south of Irving Park.
Handicap Information
Handicap seating is regularly available.
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