Violence In American Theatre – a performance of Leonard Melfi’s The Shirt, a one-act play by the award-winning Broadway playwright. This study of calculated viciousness and sadism was produced for the Museum by Bill Hildreth’s Chicago City Players.

With the launch of this website, the MCA has created a platform for archiving and publishing images and stories from our 50-plus-year history. Though many exhibition and event pages currently lack descriptions or illustrations, we’re committed to a program of ongoing research that will fill in the blanks over time. If you have information about past MCA exhibitions to share, we’d be delighted to hear from you. There are also gaps in what is shown online, and our Library and Archives are always the most complete record of our history. If you are interested in further information about our exhibitions, performances, events, programs, or anything else, please reach out to us via email.