Company History

February 1, 2008

We’ve got a season, and it’s a winner. Our 2008 season includes:

Never Swim Alone, by Daniel MacIvor
The Shallow End, by Wendy MacLeod
Yes, This Really Happened To Me
Election Day, by Josh Tobiessen
The Sand Castle, by Lanford Wilson

This one’s a keeper, my friends.

December, 2007

Both Kerry Reid (Performink) and Nina Metz (New City) list our Diversey Harbor among their favorite 10 Chicago plays of the year. That’s top 10 plays. In all of Chicago. Oh yeah.

September 4, 2007 – January 15, 2008

The rubber meets the road as Theatre Seven fights, gnashes, slugs and hammers out its second season. Kids – do not try this at home.

September 3, 2007

Everyone is granted the day off.

August 17 – September 2, 2007

Killing Women, by our Ms. Wegrzyn, plays at Chicago Dramatists to sell out crowds and good notices (mostly :-) ). After all the sweat, we’re relieved to learn we still love making theatre.

July - August, 2007

Rehearsal, publicity, preproduction, design of our second big production. Things make a lot more sense the second time around. (But this part was still really hard.)

June, 2007

The company loses founding member Annie Erickson but picks up Robin Kacyn and Justin Wardell. Theatre Seven now has 8. How’s that for fuzzy math?

March 23 – April 22, 2007

Is Chicago plays at Rogue Theatre in Andersonville. We sell over 600 tickets, our first show ever earns a two week extension and the Chicago Tribune calls our very own Marisa Wegrzyn the next great Chicago playwright. Grrrrreat success!

March, 2007

Rehearsal, publicity, preproduction, design of our first big production. (This part was really hard.)

October – December, 2006

The calm before the storm. We muster up the energy for our first mainstage production, Is Chicago.

September 16, 2006

Our first play development series as an official company: a fantastically regal workshop and reading of Carolyn Kras’ play, Highness.

August – November, 2006

Looooooooooooooots mooooooooore paperwork.

June 28, 2006

A company is born! THEATRE SEVEN OF CHICAGO is officially recognized by the State of Illinois as a 501c3, not-for-profit institution!

May 16, 2006

In between the paper trial, we squeeze in our first play development series, a workshop of Artistic Director Brian Golden’s Burying Miss America.

May, 2006

Looooooooooooooots of paperwork.

November, 2005 – April 2006

Much discussion, deliberation, consternation and debate over the next step: who are we? What do we do? What’s the mission? Can we get company t-shirts?

October, 2005

Over beers at Konak’s on Clark, someone proposes:

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August, 2005

Several of us Washington University alums produce a late-night, guerrilla mounting of Sexual Perversity in Chicago for the Abbie Hoffman Festival. We rehearse for three weeks, actors learn lines overnight, the show goes up at 4:30 am, and everyone has a blast. We remember what we already knew: working with a trusted group of artists dramatically increases our ability to take artistic risks. We think: