Apple Tree Theatre

1850 Green Bay Road, Suite 100 Highland Park IL 60035
Phone:
847-432-4335
Website:
http://www.appletreetheatre.com
Capacity:
177

Events at this venue were rated 3.1 by 43 members.

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In this intimate environment, audiences have such proximity to the actors and playing space that they find themselves a part of the dramatic action. Apple Tree audiences do not watch the productions so much as they experience them. No one is further than 8 rows back.

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Past Events on Goldstar

Bipartisian-072309  

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Full Price:
$25.00
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$12.50*
 

The 9/11 Report: A Bipartisan Musical Fantasia combines elements of song, dance, spoken word and theater into a unique examination of the findings of the commission that studied the 2001 terrorist attacks. The show explores the events of 9/11 and the failures of preparation, cooperation, and imagination in the preceding years that allowed it to happen. Learn more...

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    Third-052609  

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    Full Price:
    $38.00 - $48.00
    Our Price:
    $19.00 - $24.00*
     

    Third tells the story of a college professor whose well-ordered life is thrown into disarray when she accuses a student, an outwardly stereotypical jock nicknamed "Third," of plagiarism. In challenging the student, she is forced to question her aggressively feminist ideology, standards and family relationships, bringing the play's central theme - the danger of becoming that very thing you have been battling against - full circle. Learn more...

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      Lonely Hearts Meet Over Cards: Pulitzer-Winning The Gin Game

      Apple Tree Theatre (Highland Park, IL)

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      3.5 by 4 members

      Full Price:
      $35.00 - $45.00
      Our Price:
      $17.50 - $22.50*
       

      This winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize uses gin rummy as a metaphor for life. Weller Martin meets Fonsia Dorsey, a prim, self righteous lady. Through the games they play together, progressively and surprisingly, they discover passions, dislikes--and even one another's secrets. The Gin Game ran on Broadway for 516 performances with its original cast of Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Learn more...

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        $35.00 - $45.00
        Our Price:
        $17.50 - $22.50*
         

        A mother and daughter square off in this insightful, intense drama set in a Scottish prison. Fay, a 45-year-old mother convicted for the murder of her husband, has been imprisoned for life. Her 25-year-old daughter, Josie, hasn't seen her in fifteen years...but when they meet, Josie begins to wonder if her mother's crime was actually in self-defense. Learn more...

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          3.8 by 5 members

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          $35.00 - $45.00
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          $17.50 - $22.50*
           

          A professor, four-time husband, mountain climber, chairman of the SEC and the longest serving Supreme Court Justice in history--that's William O. Douglas, a man who made his mark while living a personal life almost as full of turmoil as his legal one. During his 81 years, he clashed with the political establishment and fought for First Amendment rights, civil rights, environmental protection, and the rights of the individual against government interference. Learn more...

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            The Winning Streak, a Touching Drama about Baseball

            Apple Tree Theatre (Highland Park, IL)

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            3.3 by 3 members

            Full Price:
            $35.00 - $45.00
            Our Price:
            $17.50 - $22.50*
             

            The Winning Streak mixes comedy, drama and baseball in a moving tale of a son's search to meet and understand the father he never knew. Both a universal and eternal play, The Winning Streak uses America's favorite pastime to help bring father and son together for the first time. Learn more...

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              Edward Albee's Prize-Winning Play Three Tall Women

              Apple Tree Theatre (Highland Park, IL)

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              3.3 by 7 members

              Full Price:
              $35.00 - $45.00
              Our Price:
              $17.50 - $22.50*
               

              Apple Tree Theatre presents the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Three Tall Women, a gripping, witty and engaging story of one woman's life. This timeless story was written by Edward Albee, writer of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the 2005 winner of the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. Learn more...

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                Critically-Acclaimed Comedy The Tale of the Allergist's Wife

                Apple Tree Theatre (Highland Park, IL)

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                3.0 by 5 members

                Full Price:
                $40.00 - $42.00
                Our Price:
                $20.00 - $21.00*
                 

                The wife of an allergist is engulfed in a crisis in this critically-acclaimed comedy. With her children grown, her therapist dead and her mother incessantly needling her, she finds herself in an empty nest without much interest in anything. Her spirits suddenly soar when a fascinating friend from her childhood arrives. The Tale of the Allergist's Wife is a deliciously devious social satire that won an Outer Critics Circle award and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. Learn more...

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                  Musical Dessa Rose from Tony Award-Winning Composers

                  Apple Tree Theatre (Highland Park, IL)

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                  4.0 by 4 members

                  Full Price:
                  $40.00 - $45.00
                  Our Price:
                  $20.00 - $22.50*
                   

                  A beautiful drama of historical fiction, Dessa Rose is about a pregnant slave of the same name, condemned to death after leading an uprising. After Dessa gives birth, she escapes, and forms a friendship with a white woman providing sanctuary to fugitive slaves. The musical, composed by Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, had a successful run at the Lincoln Center last year. Learn more...

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                    Stones in His Pockets, Winner of Best New Comedy

                    Apple Tree Theatre (Highland Park, IL)

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                    2.3 by 15 members

                    Full Price:
                    $35.00 - $45.00
                    Our Price:
                    FREE - $22.50*
                     

                    Stones in His Pockets, three-time Tony Award nominee and winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, is the story of the making of a big-budget Hollywood film in a rural village in Ireland. Learn more...

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