Staged readings have been a major staple of our work since 2003. We produce staged readings in order to create opportunities for playwrights to strengthen works-in-progress and to interface with directors, dramaturgs, actors, and audiences.
Staged readings also introduce new writers to Chicago theatregoers and theatremakers, help us “test run” plays we’re considering for full production, and provide a forum for plays that we like, but would not necessarily fully produce.
On this page we have archived our staged readings all the way from the beginning to the present.
March 8 and 10 - Grape Leaves
November 22 - Road Less Traveled
November 4 - Shadahat
September 28 and 30 - Monkey
July 13 - EVE
October 21 - A Distinct Society
October 14 - The Boatman
October 22-24 - Let There Be Light
July 14-15 - The Izmailovo Studio
July 13-14 - The Store
July 12-13 - Uzbek
October 6-7 - A Great Migration
August 18-19 - Sand on a Distant Star
August 11-12 - Dialogue & Rebuttal
August 4-5 - Speaking as Then
April 19 - Obstacle Course
February 3-4 - Pure Land
January 13-15 - P3M5: The Plurality of Privacy Project
September 9-10 - We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War
August 19-20 - Jihad Against Violence: Oh ISIS, Up Yours!
August 5-6 - Twice Thrice Frice...
May 30 - The Match
April 29-30 - Oh My Sweet Land in Vancouver
April 18 - Mosque Alert at Benedictine University
March 11-12 - Illegal Helpers
February 25-26 - The Victims
February 24 - 25 - Urge for Going
February 23-24 - Mosque Alert (Achtung Moschee)
February 18-19 - Tennis in Nablus
February 17-18 - The Zionists
February 11-12 - The Admission
February 10-11 - Scenes from 69* Years
January 23 - Red Flamboyant
December 11 - Mosque Alert in Washington, D.C.
November 18-20 - Oh My Sweet Land in Toronto
November 2-3 - Oh My Sweet Land in London
October 14-15 - Mosque Alert (Achtung Moschee)
July 9-10 - And Then Came the Fall
January 30-31 - Oh My Sweet Land
October 22 - Mosque Alert at Silk Road Rising
October 20 - Mosque Alert at North Central College
October 15-16 - Mosque Alert at Queens College
August 6 - Night Over Erzinga
June 11-12 - Penuel: The Sammy Lee Story
May 16-17 - after all the terrible things I do
June 28-29 - Unmanned
June 19-20 - The Translator
March 8-9 - Rituals of Signs and Transformations
Feb 7-9 - Rumi: Love, Madness & Ecstasy
January 11-13 - My Name is Inanna | Medea Was Born in Fallujah
April 23, 2012 - Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
February 17-19 - Paulus
November 1 - Confession
August 14-15 - Talib
June 12 - 100 Days
July 24-26 - Ching Chong Chinaman
April 28-29 - In the Crossing
December 6-7 - Into the Numbers
October 11 and November 1 - Gilgamesh
April 12-13 - Cleveland Raining
December 9 - Sankalpan (Desire)
June 10 - Durango
April 15 - Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat
January 7 - Merchant on Venice
August 27 - Cowboy vs. Samurai
August 8 - Balacarita: The Adventures of Young Krishna
July 21 - Sun Sisters
June 28 - Double Happiness
June 13 - The Details of Silence
June 4 - Publish or Perish
March 12 - Caravaggio
August 14 - China Doll
July 10 - Celestial Motions
May 15 - Ten Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith
May 6 - Calling Aphrodite
March 19 - Gibran - A Screenplay
February 13 - Question 27, Question 28
January 5 - Back of the Throat
December 4 - Guest of a Few Days
June 15 - The Gempei War: A Cycle of Noh Plays
May 2 - 36 Views
November 17 - Tea
September 21 - A Language of Their Own
