Description
Book SynopsisSince Chicago's founding, theatre has blossomed in the city's makeshift spaces, from taverns to parks, living rooms to storefronts.
Makeshift Chicago Stages brings together leading historians to share the history of theatre and performance in the Second City.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Chicago Theater as Makeshift Performance, Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht, and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
- Section I: Theater: Artistry Born of Ashes, Stuart J. Hecht
- 1. Entertaining People: The 1893 Columbian Exposition Midway Plaisance, Rosemarie K. Bank
- 2. From Marmalade to Gingerbread: The Columbian Exposition, Chicago’s 57th Street Artist Colony, and the Theaters it Spawned, Stuart J. Hecht
- 3. All Passes – Art Alone Endures: Staging the New Drama at the Fine Arts Building, Shannon Epplett
- Section II: From Mainstream to Institutionalized, Megan E. Geigner
- 4. Pillars of the Community: Reversing the Flow between the Goodman and Immigrant Theater, Megan E. Geigner
- 5. Theatrical Geographies of Segregation: Spatial Displacement in Theodore Ward’s Big White Fog, Aaron Krall
- 6. Lincoln Avenue and the Off-Loop Scene: Urban Renewal, and the Early Years of the Chicago Storefront Movement, Cat Gleason
- 7. Object Permanence: ImprovOlympic and the Legitimacy of Improv in Chicago, Travis Stern
- Section III: Centering the Decentered, Itinerant, Civic, and Home, Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
- 8. Reclaiming Space: An Oral History of Teatro Vista, Laura Lodewyck
- 9. Temple-Swapping in the City: The Spatial Imaginary and Performances of Place-Making in the Work of Theaster Gates, LaRonika Thomas
- 10. Staging Private Homes and the Transformations of Public Lives: A conversation with Irina Zadov, Laley Lippard, Aymar Jean Christian, and Meida McNeal of the Chicago Home Theater Festival, Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
- Epilogue: Chicago Theater amidst Pandemics, Megan E. Geigner and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
