Once the prodigiously talented kids of the Chicago theater, the Lookingglass Theatre Company has now been around for more than two decades. And the ensemble-based troupe's 21st season, widely discussed and officially announced Thursday, is a mix of the new, the old and the reflective.
A new adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov," written and directed by Lookingglass veteran ensemble member Heidi Stillman, is the fall centerpiece of the Lookingglass season at the Water Tower Water Works, 821 N. Michigan Ave.
Next winter, Anna D. Shapiro and Jessica Thebus will co-direct a new, ensemble-heavy production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" (no casting was announced but ensemble member and Hollywood star David Schwimmer has expressed interest in appearing in the show, schedules permitting).
And in the spring of 2009, ensemble member Mary Zimmerman will mount a production of her adaptation of the narrative collection known as "The Arabian Nights."
This new, revised version of the show (one of Lookingglass's biggest hits in the late 1990s) will first be staged at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California.
"This season," said Lookingglass artistic director David Catlin, "is really about what it's like to be a citizen not just of America, but of the world."
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Lookingglass Theatre goes global next season
By Chris Jones
Tribune criticMarch 27, 2008
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