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  Since 1979, Chicago Dramatists, the playwrights' theatre, has devoted all of its resources and programming to its singular mission of developing new plays and nurturing playwrights.

       Last season alone, Chicago Dramatists' playwrights earned over 700 productions, awards, commissions, readings, and other honors, at large and small theatres in Chicago and around the country. Every year, our work helps to enrich the lives of thousands of theatre patrons across the nation.

  homeimgAs we celebrate our 28th season, please join us in creating the theatre of the future ...

        Most Saturdays at 2:00, playwrights, theatre artists, industry professionals, and the general public attend Chicago Dramatists' foremost new play development program, The Saturday Series. It is a place where artists and audiences come together to observe and encourage our writers through staged readings and discussions of their plays-in-progress.

 

Please join us May 17, 2008 for:

THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
by ALICE AUSTEN, Resident Playwright

A man grows to adulthood in the shadow of family tragedy and a powerful and unrelenting father. As he later sorts through the wreckage of a half-lived life as a minister grappling with his faith, he moves ever closer to a confrontation with his father over the war he never fought. Set in the Pacific Northwest to music begun in one era and finished in the next, three generations of men confront the question of what it means to be a man, to be a father and to be a son.

ALICE AUSTEN's play “Backwards” opened the Woodstock Fringe Festival in New York this past summer and is the 2008 featured play for the Montgomery Davis Series at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. Her play “Water,” produced by Chicago Dramatists, received a 2007 Jeff Award nomination for Best New Work. Ms. Austen is a recipient of a 2006 Royal Court Theatre Residency.

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