Season

Season 33:  Secrets, Lies and Revelations

In 2013/14 Next Theatre explores the ramifications of secrets kept and the reverberations of lies exposed.

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Chicago Premiere

Compulsion*

By Rinne Groff | Directed by Devon de Mayo

October 10 - November 17, 2013

It’s 1951 and Sid Silver is on a mission to be the guardian of one of the most moving and provocative accounts of the 20th century.  Inspired by the true story of Meyer Levin and his obsession with Anne Frank’s diary, Compulsion explores the lengths one man will go to honor an iconic teenage girls powerful and endur-ing legacy.  Devon deMayo, director of Next’s hit production, Everything Is Illuminated, returns with this compelling and complex tale of passion and obsession.

Midwest Premiere

Luck of the Irish*

By Kirsten Greenidge | Directed by Damon Kiely

January 16 - February 23, 2014

When an upwardly mobile Afridan-American couple wants to buy a home in an allwhite neighborhood of 1950’s Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to “ghost-buy” a house on their behalf.  Fifty-two years later, the Irish family wants “their” house back.  Moving across two eras, Luck of the Irish explores our legacy of racial and class issues and the long held secrets that tie two families and one house together.

Midwest Premiere

The Great God Pan*

By Amy Herzog | Directed by Kimberly Senior

April 3 - May 11, 2014

Jamie is doing great:  he’s got a beautiful girlfriend, a new job and loving parents who live just far enough away.  But when a possible childhood trauma comes to light, he begins to question not only his past but his seemingly positive present as well. Director Kimberly Senior and playwright Amy Herzog are reunited (After the Revolution) with this moving and mysterious story about the nature of memory and the question of how defi nitively the past shapes present behavior.

PASSPORTS $80 - $185 

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