Sailing to Byzantium
                     September 2, 2004 through October 10, 2004
        Sailing to Byzantium asks questions of love, loyalty,  grief, and  the  worth of art.

     Silva
               June 6, 2005 through June 21,2005             
      Inspired by poets’ meditations on the interplay of art and society, Silva follows the figure of the tree in a multi-form choreographic collage of poetry and image—
     
   Doña Rosita, or the Language of Flowers
                      October 21, 2005 through November 20, 2005
 Federico García Lorca’s little-known ‘poem of 1900 Granada,’ weaves a whimsical elegy to lost love and fleeting time.

      The Cocktail Party
                      March 26-April 23, 2006
  Plays by Poets continued with Eliot’s witty verse comedy, winner of the 1950 Tony Award for Best Play. A mysterious guest at a cocktail party leads a curious young socialite and a married couple on the rocks to depths beyond their urbane lives.

      The Cure at Troy
            September 15 - October 8, 2006             Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes examines the power of mercy: "A vibrant example of how Greek preoccupations can still get under [modern] skins"

     Ion        

         by H.D., after Euripides

          May 4, 2007 - May 27,2007

       Translations (recommended for a Joseph Jefferson Citation)

               By  Brian Friel

            October 18, 2007 - November 18, 2007

 

      Like The Moon Behind The Clouds
            by Donald Gecewicz
  after an Italian memoir by Carla Vasio
      January 15-February 24, 2008

      Chicago Cultural Center
           Studio Theater  77 E Randolph St

      The Antigone Coffeehouse

                  A festival of new works of poetry, theatre, and dance
                              inspired by Sophocles’ Antigone.