Chopin Theatre Studio
Chopin Theatre Studio
1543 W. Division Ave. Chicago IL 60622- Phone:
- 773-278-1500
- Website:
- http://www.chopintheatre.com/
- Capacity:
- 100
Arrive early and enjoy what the Chicago Tribune calls the Most Charming Espresso Bar: "It makes you wish all theatres had one like it." - Chicago Tribune 12/5/03
For questions about a purchase, please contact Goldstar.
Current Events on Goldstar
New Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet From Sean Graney and The Hypocrites
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $36.00
- Our Price:
- $18.00
For his world premiere adaptation of the classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, writer/director Sean Graney - the founding artistic director of The Hypocrites - turned not only to William Shakespeare's play but... Learn More.
Past Events on Goldstar
Trust Nobody! New Play Girl You Know It's True Takes on The Quest for Fame
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $30.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $15.00
A fortysomething playwright who can't get his work produced conjures up an alter ego: an African American lesbian woman in a wheelchair who instantly becomes famous. But if people find out the truth about "... Learn More.
6 Characters in Search of an Author: The Hypocrites in World Premiere Adaptation
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $28.00 - $36.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $18.00
Chicago's The Hypocrites present the world premiere of a new English-language adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's classic 1921 Italian play 6 Characters in Search of an Author. Adapted by Steve Moulds for the... Learn More.
The Magic Parlour: Chicago's Only Weekly Late Night Magic Show
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
The House Theatre of Chicago presents The Magic Parlour, an intimate evening of classic magic with award-winning entertainer Dennis Watkins. This hour-long show features mind-reading, daring escapes,... Learn More.
Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance from The Hypocrites
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $28.00 - $60.00
- Our Price:
- $14.00 - $30.00
The Hypocrites perform Gilbert and Sullivan's hilarious farce Pirates of Penzance. Featuring well-known songs including "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" and "Poor Wand'ring One," the operetta... Learn More.
Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses: Greek Tragedy Dinner Theater
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $36.00
- Our Price:
- $21.60
This bold undertaking by The Hypocrites presents all seven surviving plays of Sophocles and pairs them with dinner. The classic theatrical cycle is funny, sad and most definitely epic with stories of incest... Learn More.
Trogg! A Musical: World Premiere of Hell in a Handbag's Campy New Comedy-Musical
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $28.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $14.00
Loosely based on actress Joan Crawford's final film, Trogg! A Musical is a campy comedy romp making its world premiere. Hell in a Handbag's first new musical in four years, Trogg! was written by HIAH Co-... Learn More.
Star Witness: Waitress at the Heart of Small-Town Mystery at Chopin Theatre
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $12.50
The latest collaboration between director Sean Graney and Chicago novelist Joe Meno is Star Witness, a play about a small-town waitress seeking excitement. Stuck in sleepy Somerset, IL, 19-year-old Shelley... Learn More.
The Hypocrites Present K. Based on Franz Kafka's Classic, The Trial
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $28.00
- Our Price:
- $12.00 - $14.00
Joseph K. wakes up one morning to find himself mysteriously arrested even though he hasn't done anything wrong. So begins K., the award-winning adaptation of Kafka's The Trial written and directed by Greg... Learn More.
1001, a Modern Retelling of Arabian Nights from Jason Grote and Collaboraction
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $10.00
Based on the classic folk tales The Arabian Nights, Jason Grote's 1001 is a mash-up of young love and Middle East politics. Six actors play a variety of roles -- some familiar and some surprising --... Learn More.
Pulitzer Prize-Winner Edward Albee's The Play About the Baby
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $10.00
In an abstract version of Eden, a blissful young married couple are deeply in love. Their passion is only made deeper by the arrival of a baby. Soon, however, their playful exploits are interrupted by a... Learn More.
Love Affair Drama Orange Flower Water from BackStage Theatre Company
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
After years of maintaining a close, platonic friendship, David and Beth begin a love affair with heartbreaking consequences. Through a series of theatrical, voyeuristic scenes which all take place on or... Learn More.
Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon from BackStage Theatre Company
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $10.00
BackStage Theatre Company presents a dark and disturbing play by writer and actor Wallace Shawn (My Dinner with Andre). In Aunt Dan and Lemon, a reclusive young woman named Lemon recounts her seemingly... Learn More.
Edward Albee's Drama The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $10.00
Signal Ensemble Theatre presents Edward Albee's 1963 drama, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. Based on a novella by Carson McCullers, the play is set during the Depression in a small Georgia town, where the... Learn More.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Live on Stage from Signal Ensemble Theatre
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $10.00
Jean Brodie is in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all of her pupils are the crème de la crème. The Brodie Set, as her students at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls are famously... Learn More.
Lanford Wilson's Play The Sand Castle
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $18.00
- Our Price:
- $9.00
American playwright Lanford Wilson's rarely-performed drama is brought to the Chicago stage in a new production from Theatre Seven. A widow and her two college-age children face momentous decisions about... Learn More.
Nobel Prize-Winning Playwright Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $10.00
Stanley Webber, a retired pianist, is leading a quiet life in a seaside boarding house until two strangers roll into town. What is supposed to be a birthday celebration for Stanley quickly turns into a dark... Learn More.
Our Town: The Hypocrites Present Thornton Wilder's Classic Portrait of Small-Town America
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The Hypocrites, led by Guest Director David Cromer, take on Thornton Wilder's classic Our Town, arguably the most produced play in America. Stripping the stage of modern sets and props, Wilder's tale of... Learn More.
Miss Julie: The Hypocrites' Version of Strindberg's Classic
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The Hypocrites present an adapted version of Strindberg's classic Miss Julie. In this stinging analysis of the sexuality latent in class society, the pretense of psychological differences is stripped away to... Learn More.
Musical Drama Old Wicked Songs from Signal Ensemble Theatre
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $10.00
A finalist for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Old Wicked Songs depicts a clash of cultures and attitudes as a brash American piano prodigy travels to Vienna to combat an artistic block that threatens his... Learn More.
Eugene O'Neill's Classic Drama Desire under the Elms
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The Hypocrites kick off their 11th Season with Eugene O'Neill's 1924 classic, Desire under the Elms. Mixing Greek classics like Oedipus Rex with New England farm-life, O'Neill created an American tragedy.... Learn More.
Love and Abandonment in the American West in Sam Shepard's Fool for Love
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $5.00 - $10.00
Set in a motel room in the Mojave Desert, Fool for Love is the story of troubled lovers Eddie and May. Caught in a vicious cycle of yearning and abandonment, they long to be together but find no real solace... Learn More.
A Dream Play, An Adaptation of Strindberg's Masterpiece
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00
The Mill presents an energetic reimagining of August Strindberg's classic work, A Dream Play. The play follows the journey of an ethereal woman, sent by the gods, to uncover the mysterious nature of human... Learn More.
Orange Lemon Egg Canary -- A Quirky, Modern Love Story
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $10.00
Great, a renegade magician with a mysterious legacy, finds more than meets the eye in his sexy new assistant, who pursues him for the truth of his past and the truth behind his tricks. This funny, quirky... Learn More.
Haunting, Funny The Weir Spins Ghost Stories of Ireland
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Set in a pub in rural Ireland, The Weir focuses on the bar's regulars as they swap ghost stories and tall tales. But when a young woman from Dublin, new to the area, chimes in with her own chilling tale,... Learn More.
Tony Award-Winning Irish Tale Faith Healer
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50 - $10.00
Brian Friel's Tony Award-winning play follows an Irish faith healer, his longtime lover and his devoted manager as they tour from town to town until their fateful return to Ireland. A riveting look at the... Learn More.
Four Lives Intertwine in Powerful, Award-Winning Closer
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Closer, a brutal, honest, and often funny examination of modern romance and betrayal, was made into a 2004 film with Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. Over four and a half years, four... Learn More.
Dark Comedy Devours Politics in The Last Supper
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $20.00 - $25.00
- Our Price:
- $10.00 - $12.50
In this dark comedy, a group of liberal grad students--Peter, Paul, Mark, Luke and Jude--invite a guest to exchange views on various topics each Sunday. When a heated discussion leads to the death of a right... Learn More.
Two One-Acts: The Dumb Waiter and The Zoo Story at Chopin Theatre
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Signal Ensemble Theatre presents a pair of relentlessly suspenseful one-acts exploring the flipsides of killing time: The Dumb Waiter and The Zoo Story. Echoes of Waiting for Godot reverberate through Harold... Learn More.
Sketchbook 2006: 16 World-Premiere Plays, Art, and Music
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $30.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
Collaboraction presents "Sketchbook 2006," a celebration of staged theatrical works, music, and art in a series of 15 single-night events. This sixth annual festival of world-premiere short plays, visual art... Learn More.
The Bride of Acacias from Chopin Theatre
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $12.50
The Bride of Acacias is a biographical play about emancipated Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad. The play is initially set in Iran during the 1950s, an era which saw the overthrow of Iran's... Learn More.
Tragicomedy The Violet Hour at Chopin Theatre Studio
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
Uma Productions presents The Violet Hour, a funny and fascinating play where fate, ambition and loyalty among friends collide. In 1919, a fledgling New York City book publisher tries to pick the first... Learn More.
Casanova: The Story of History's Greatest Lover
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $25.00
- Our Price:
- $15.00
Casanova details the sensual and spiritual escapades of an internationally renowned art collector accumulating relics for the final exhibition of his illustrious career: an account of his life as the world's... Learn More.
Touching Comedy Recent Tragic Events from UMA Productions
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00
- Our Price:
- $7.50
In this Chicago premiere, a shy bookstore clerk and a neurotic ad exec meet for a blind date and embark upon an absurdly funny and disorienting evening of pizza and drinking games. Recent Tragic Events was... Learn More.
Minimalist Shakespeare from The Velvet Willies: All's Well That Ends Well
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.00
The Velvet Willies perform First Folio productions of Shakespeare with minimal design elements. When Helena cures the King of France's chronic maladies, she is granted the hand of any lord in court. She... Learn More.
Minimalist Shakespeare from The Velvet Willies: Hamlet
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $10.00 - $15.00
- Our Price:
- FREE - $7.00
The Velvet Willies perform First Folio productions of Shakespeare with minimal design elements. Following the death of his father, Hamlet, prince of Denmark, returns home to find his uncle now occupies the... Learn More.
A Comic Story of Arranged Marriage: Charles Mee's Big Love
Chopin Theatre Studio (Chicago, IL)
- Full Price:
- $15.00 - $20.00
- Our Price:
- $7.00 - $10.00
Big Love is a play about 50 sisters promised to marry their 50 cousins who instead flee to Greece to seek asylum. When it becomes apparent that the marriage cannot be avoided, the women hatch a murderous... Learn More.
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Handicap Information
Handicap seating is regularly available.
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