The Goodman is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works, giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions.

Goodman Theatre is now encouraging project proposals for the new Future Labs, a series of workshops and presentations written and led by artists of color, beginning in early 2021. We are seeking bold, imaginative works from Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI and other playwrights of color for development and public presentation. Future Labs is curated by Associate Director of Education & Engagement Quenna L. Barrett, Literary and New Works Manager Jonathan L. Green, Associate Producer Ken-Matt Martin, and a cross-departmental team of Goodman staff holding intersectional identities.

Launched in the Spring of 2018, the Vanguard Initiative is COT’s three-pronged approach to the development of new opera. COT Music Director Lidiya Yankovskaya leads the Initiative as the Vanguard Artistic Director. Vanguard Emerging Opera Composer Program COT identifies promising composers ready to hone the specific skillset required to create quality opera. Composers become an integral part of the company for a period of two years of paid residency activities, including mentorship from COT staff, industry leaders, and Vanguard Composer Mentor Jake Heggie. The program culminates in a full-...

Chicago Opera Theater is a company laser-focused on living its values: • expanding the tradition of opera as a living art form • producing high-quality works new to Chicago audiences • identifying top-tier casts and creative talent • following through on commitments to equity and access – behind the scenes, on the stage, and in the audience Since its founding in 1973, in a city where storefront theaters and global icons thrive side by side, COT has grown from a grassroots, community-based company to a national leader in an increasingly vibrant, diverse, and forward-looking art form. COT...

Silk Road Rising is an art-making and art service organization that shapes conversations about Asian and Middle Eastern Americans. Through storytelling and dialogue, we challenge disinformation, promote a culture of continuous learning, and explore what it means to be Americans. We are committed to producing plays by playwrights of Middle Eastern, South Asian, or East Asian backgrounds with main characters of those same backgrounds.

Stage Left Theatre inspires debate by producing and developing plays that explore political and social issues.

The Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA) is a transformative cultural engine helping drive our local Latino theater community to a more prominent level. Our organization is an ambitious and impactful program –which is urgently needed for our city as we wrestle with issues of cultural equity and inclusion. It is a goal of ours to build a stronger foundation for the future Latino theater artists to thrive and grow! The Chicago Latino Theater Alliance (CLATA) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that was formed in 2016 by the three most prominent Chicago Latino arts organizations:...

Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the world’s great opera companies. It is renowned internationally for its artistic excellence and financial strength. Founded in 1954, Lyric has always distinguished itself by presenting the finest international singers, conductors, directors, and designers in classic and less-familiar operatic repertoire and in world-premiere productions. The company’s mission is to express and promote the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and...

It is our mission to produce plays that extend this question beyond the stage, and into the minds and hearts of our audience.

We believe it essential to the welfare of our community that its members are able to see the world from multiple perspectives. Red Tape Theatre challenges audiences to think differently by disrupting expectations and by redefining the boundaries of the theatrical event. We apply our unique visual aesthetic to the social, political and cultural stories of our time, creating immersive and thought-provoking experiences for our audiences. We are a free theatre. We are an immersive theatre. We are a theatre of images. We are a theatre of ideas.

Our mission is to workshop and to produce shows that are written by Rachel Lynett as well as one show a season by an emerging or mid-career playwright who is a womxn of color (WOC) and/or queer whose work is in direct conversation with Lynett’s.

Black Button Eyes Productions' mission is to bring to Chicago premieres and seldom-seen works containing elements of fantasy, in which the magical and surreal invade reality.