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The Goodman Theatre is a theater in Chicago's Loop, and part of Chicago theatre. It is Albert Goldman Theatre Tickets Chicago's oldest currently-active nonprofit organization.
The Goodman was founded in 1925 as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, Albert Goldman Theatre Tickets who had died of pneumonia in 1918. The theater was funded by Goodman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William O. Goodman, who donated USD$350,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a professional repertory company and a school of drama at the Institute. Albert Goldman Theatre Tickets The theater was designed by the architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, although its design was severely hampered by location restrictions resulting in a lack of space for scenery and effects and Albert Goldman Theatre Tickets poor acoustics.
The opening ceremony on October 20, 1925, featured three of Kenneth Sawyer Goodman's Albert Goldman Theatre Tickets plays: Back of the Yards, The Green Scarf, and The Game of Chess. The theater presented its first public performance on October 22, 1925, with John Galsworthy's The Forest.
The theater struggled for Albert Goldman Theatre Tickets many years with financial problems and resignations of directors. In 2000, the company moved into its new building at 170 N. Dearborn (just north of Randolph Street) in Chicago's theater district. It has two fully-modern auditoriums, named the 'Albert' and the 'Owen' after two further members of the Goodman family, Albert Goldman Theatre Tickets who continue to be major donors.
After his death in 1999, comedian Del Close donated his skull to the Goodman Theatre for use in Albert Goldman Theatre Tickets Hamlet productions on the condition that he should receive credit in the program as Yorick.
The skull resides in the office of Goodman artistic director Robert Falls. In October 2006, it was Albert Goldman Theatre Tickets revealed by Charna Halpern, the executrix of Del Close's will, that the skull donated to the Goodman was not actually Close's. Due to pressures from the morgue, Halpern wound up purchasing a replacement skull. The information was Albert Goldman Theatre Tickets uncovered by the Chicago Tribune.
With the production of Radio Golf in 2007, the Goodman became the first theater to mount a Albert Goldman Theatre Tickets production of all ten plays in August Wilson's 10-play "Pittsburgh" cycle.
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