The Storefront Project
Featured images
Performance view, 100 Hauntings, Free Street Theater, Fall 2016
Photo: SkyLine Multimedia
Performance view, Lauren Gunderson: The Revolutionists, Strawdog Theatre Company, Chicago. November 2018.
Photo: Heath Hayes
Performance view, Charles L. Mee: BIG LOVE, Northwestern University. Scenic Design: Arnel Sancianco Costume Design: Sully Ratke Lighting Design: Sara Grosses
Photo: Justin Barbin
Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice, The Theatre School at DePaul University, October 2016.
Photo: Lila Gilbert
Zariyah age 9 as a Fly Girl with Black Girls (Can) Fly! directed by Sydney Chatman. A collaboration with the Hyde Park Jazz Festival/Back Alley Jazz Festival 2018.
Photo: Marc Monaghan“Olivia Lilley leads Prop THTR’s gang of misfits, weirdos, and visionaries into the spotlight.”
About the Performances
Performance Schedules
Saturday, Sep 14 and Sunday, Sep 15
Noon and 3 pm, Program A at PROP
7 pm and 8 pm, Program B at MCA
Saturday, Sep 21 and Sunday, Sep 22
Noon and 3 pm, Program B at PROP
7 pm and 8 pm, Program A at MCA
Performance Key
Program A:
- Sydney Chatman
- Coya Paz
Denise Yvette Serna
Program B:
- Lucky Stiff
- Dado
April Cleveland with Mikael Burke
Announcement
This performance has mature content and sexual situations. Please contact the MCA Box Office for additional information at [email protected] or by calling 312-397-4010.
For these performances, audiences move throughout the MCA and the Prop Thtr buildings and should be prepared to relocate multiple times to follow the action of the show. All pathways are accessible without using stairs and staff will be on hand to assist. If you have any questions or to request specific accommodations, please call the Box Office at 312-397-4010 or email [email protected].
Accessible Events
- ASL-INTERPRETED PERFORMANCE
SUN, SEP 22, 8pm
ASL interpretation by Julikka LaChe and Veramarie Baldoza is provided for this performance.
What happens when you try to make a show from scratch, with no rulebook or script? What if you had to perform it in two completely different spaces, across the city, back to back?
Learn More about The Storefront Project
The Storefront Project asks six Chicago-based directors to choose anything but a typical play and devise a new project, tailor-made for both the MCA Chicago and Prop Thtr. Dado Gyure, Lucky Stiff, Denise Yvette Serna, Coya Paz, Sydney Chatman, and Mikael Burke with April Cleveland demonstrate Chicago theater’s uncanny ability to pop up anywhere and bring their performances to both spaces on alternate weekends. Behind-the-scenes footage of their rehearsal process at each venue will be on view during each performance to give you a peek into the ins and outs of devised theater.
This celebration of the city’s long traditions of storefront, underground, and devised theater is cocurated by MCA’s associate curator of performance Tara Aisha Willis with Olivia Lilley, the new artistic director of Chicago’s own Prop Thtr.
Weekend one features Program A at Prop Thtr and Program B at the MCA. Weekend two features Program B at Prop Thtr and Program A is at the MCA.
Post-Show Talk
- SUN, SEP 15
SUN, SEP 22
Immediately following the 8 pm performance, join cocurators Tara Aisha Willis and Olivia Lilley in the Edlis Neeson Theater for a brief conversation with the artists.
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