The world-acclaimed Goodman Theatre is celebrating a century of stage excellence and innovation.
Storytellers talked about raising the curtain on entertainment, enrichment and wonder in the spotlight. The joyful noise and divinity of drama first on a stage neighboring the Art Institute is now a dazzling luminary in the galaxy of the Loop theater district.
The Goodman has a special awareness of diversity and inclusion.
"There's a community agreement we have, where respect and representation is going to be reflective of the society which we intend to interpret dramatically," Lennix said. "It makes it a kind of refuge or a sanctuary. "The Goodman has endured as a legacy theater when so many other places have fallen by the wayside.
"I remember learning right away, if there was such a thing as a Goodman style, it was that we treated new plays with the reverence you usually accord a classic. And we treated classics as if they'd never been done before and they needed to live compellingly in this moment," Booth said.
"That attention to the moment a play lands in, that I think is the Goodman's secret sauce. "He's played a key role in bringing August Wilson's powerful stories to the stage. "Our African American participation and the audiences coming to see shows has grown tremendously, and I think I have something to do with that. And I'm very proud of that," Smith said.
Robert Falls has been galvanizing the audacious pursuits as the visionary artistic director for over 35 years.
"I watched the theater grow into an important, if not the best theater companies in America, certainly the best city for theater," Falls said. "To really be able to make work and watch other people make exciting work is what it's all about. And I've been very proud to be an enormous part of it just in years alone. "
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