Chicago Literature Index

Plays

	Title	Links	Published
1.	*Back of the Yards*	Kenneth Goodman	1914
2.	*The Front Page* Chicago Premiere: xxxxxxx	Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur Charles MacArthur Link Ben Hecht Link	1928
3.	*Big White Fog* Chicago Premiere: Great Northern Theatre	Theodore Ward Theodore Ward Link	1937
4.	*A Raisin in the Sun* Chicago Premiere: Blackstone Theatre	Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry Link	1959
5.	*Blues for Mister Charlie*	James Baldwin	1964
6.	*Sexual Perversity in Chicago* Chicago Premiere: Organic Theatre	David Mamet David Mamet Link	1974
7.	*The Bleacher Bums* Chicago Premiere: Organic Theatre	Joe Mantenga	1974
8.	*American Buffalo* Chicago Premiere: Goodman Theatre	David Mamet David Mamet Link	1975
9.	*Cops* Chicago Premiere: Organic Theatre	Terry Curtis Fox	1978
10.	*Sister Carrie* Chicago Premiere: Touchtone Theatre	Tom Creamer	1980
11.	*Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom* Chicago Premiere: Goodman Theatre	August Wilson	1982
12.	*Emergency Room* Chicago Premiere: Organic Theatre	Ronald Berman	1984
13.	*Never The Sinner* Chicago Premiere: Stormfield Theater	John Logan	1985
14.	*Dreaming Emmett*	Toni Morrison	1986
15.	*Checkmates* Chicago Premiere: ETA Theater	Ron Milner	1987
16.	*Pill Hill* Chicago Premiere: ETA Theater	Samuel L. Kelly	1988
17.	*To the Chicago Abyss*	Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Link	1989
18.	*Give the Lady What She Wants* Chicago Premiere: Touchtone Theatre	Kendall Marlowe	1995
19.	*Damon, Ring and F. Scott,* Writers’ Theatre	J.R. Sullivan	1996
20.	*I Am Lorraine Hansberry* Black Ensemble Theater	Lephate Cunningham Jr. and Jackie Taylor	1996
21.	*Comfort Stew* ETA Theater	Angela Jackson Angela Jackson Link	1997
22.	*Haymarket Eight* Steppenwolf Theatre	Derek Goldman and Jessica Thebus	1998
23.	*The House on Mango Street* Steppenwolf Theatre	Amy Ludwig	1998
24.	*Division Street: America* Chicago Premiere: Steppenwolf Theatre	Studs Terkel, adapted by Steve Totland	2000
25.	*Proof* Chicago Premiere: xxxxx	David Auburn	2000
26.	*Streeterville* Chicago Premiere: Lookingglass Theatre	G. Riley Mills and Ralph Covert	2001
27.	*They All Fall Down: The Richard Nickel Story* Chicago Premiere: Lookingglass Theatre	Laura Eason and Jessica Thebus Laura Eason Link	2001
28.	*Race* Chicago Premiere: Lookingglass Theatre	John Musial, David Schwimmer and Joy Gregory	2003
29.	*Frank’s Home* Chicago Premiere: Goodman Theatre	Richard Nelson	2006
30.	*Hizzoner: Daley the First* Chicago Premiere: Beverly Arts Center	Neil Giuntoli	2006
31.	*Spare Change* Steppenwolf Theatre	Mia McCullough	2006
32.	*Gas for Less* Chicago Premiere: Northlight Theatre	Brett Neveu	2007
33.	*I Sailed With Magellan* Chicago Premiere: Victory Gardens Theater	Claudia Allen	2007
34.	*Old Town* Chicago Premiere: Strawdog Theatre	Brett Neveu	2008
35.	*Superior Donuts* Steppenwolf Theatre	Tracy Letts Tracy Letts Link	2008
36.	*High Holidays* Chicago Premiere: Goodman Theatre	Alan Gross	2009
37.	*The Crowd You’re In With* Chicago Premiere: Goodman Theatre	Rebecca Gilman	2009
38.	*Clybourne Park* Chicago Premiere: Steppenwolf Theatre	Bruce Norris Bruce Norris Link	2010
39.	*This Train* 16th Street Theatre	Tony Fitzpatrick Tony Fitzpatrick Link	2010
40.	*Do The Hustle* Chicago Premiere: Writers’ Theatre	Brett Neveu	2011
41.	*Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day* Chicago Premiere: Lookingglass Theatre	John Musial	2011
42.	*The Detective’s Wife* Chicago Premiere: Writers’ Theatre	Keith Huff	2011
43.	*The Great Fire* Chicago Premiere: Lookingglass Theatre	John Musial	2011
44.	*Crowns* Chicago Premiere: Goodman Theatre	Regina Taylor	2012
45.	*Dar He: The Lynching of Emmett Till*	Mike Wiley	2012
46.	*My Kind of Town* Chicago Premiere: Timeline Theatre	John Conroy	2012
47.	*Big Lake Big City* Chicago Premiere: Lookingglass Theatre	Keith Huff	2013
48.	*Jar the Floor* Chicago Premiere: ETA Theater	Cheryl L. West Cheryl West Link	2013
49.	*Pullman Porter Blues* Chicago Premiere: Goodman Theatre	Cheryl L. West Cheryl West Link	2013
50.	*Exit Strategy* Chicago Premiere: Jackalope Theatre Company	Ike Holter	2014
51.	*The Midnight City* Steppenwolf Theatre	Tony Fitzpatrick and Stan Klein Tony Fitzpatrick Link	2014
52.	*The Sweeter Option* Chicago Premiere: Strawdog Theatre	John Henry Roberts	2014
53.	*Rutherford’s Travels* The Pegasus Players’s adaptation of Johnson’s 1990 National Book Award-winning novel, Middle Passage.	Charles R. Johnson	2016
54.	*La Havana Madrid* Goodman Theatre	Sandra Delgado	2017
55.	*Mahalia Jackson: Moving Thru the Light* Black Ensemble Theater	Jackie Taylor	2019
56.	*I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter* Steppenwolf Theatre	Isaac Gómez	2020
57.	*The Billboard*	Natalie Y. Moore Natalie Y. Moore Link	2022