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the building the people scenic design

Pregnant Buffalo Lounge – Lucrezia, Chicago Fringe Opera

Chopin Theatre – Main Lobby

Studio Theatre – Sophocles Seven Sicknesses, The Hypocrites

Studio Theatre – Fly Honey Show, The Inconvenience

Studio Theatre – Pirates of Penzance, the Hypocrites

Studio Theatre – Why they Invented Dancing, UMA

Pregnant Buffalo Lounge – Bardo Bordo, Lithuania

Pregnant Buffalo Lounge – EMPIRE taping, 20th Century Television

Pregnant Buffalo Lounge – Entrepreneurs Unplugged networking

Main Stage – Tango, Ian Maksin

Main Stage – Lollapalooza, Empty Bottle

Algren Cafe at Chopin Theatre

Algren Cafe at Chopin Theatre

Studio Theatre & Pregnant Buffalo Lounge – Anteroom

Staircase to Chopin Studio Theatre & Pregnant Buffalo Lounge

Pregnant Buffalo Lounge

East Wing Art Gallery

Main Stage – Romeo & Juliet, TUTA

Main Stage – Clown Festival

Main Stage – Death of Harry Houdini, House Theatre Chicago

Main Stage – Open Space

East side of theater

1916 building permit – (Theatre Historical Society of America)

Earliest known theater photo – Pols fighting Russians for independence

In 1990 the first two buildings were sold to purchase Chopin Theatre, located around the corner

And the next building where the Dyrkacz family moved in

But it began in 1986 with idea to start the theater at 1176-78 N Milwaukee, in building scheduled for demolition

Main Stage – The End of TV, Manual Cinema

Main Stange – Aristophanesathon, the Hypocrites

Main Stage – A Fool’s Journey, Misfits Theatre

2018 – 100th anniversary of historical Chopin Theatre – (Cindy Fandl Photography)

Main Stage – Dave Davinci Saves the World, House Theatre

Main Stage – Sketchbook, Collaboraction

Main Stage – Four Roses, Actors Gang LA

Main Stage – Mandrake, Greasy Joan

Main Stage – Icarus, Teatro Vista

Main Stage – The Cosmonauts…, Collaboraction

Studio Theatre – Our Town, the Hypocrties

Studio Theatre – The Violet Hour, UMA

Studio Theatre – Uncle Vanya, TUTA

Aaron McGruder (BoonDocks) with Scot jackson

Studio Theatre from 1990s

Poets Club of Chicago

Young Chicago Authors – Encyclopedia Show

Teatr Legnica presents Othello for students

Teatro Vista – Another Part of the Forest

Teatr 13 children presentation

Signal Theatre – Hamlet

Raise Your Hand for Public Education

Chicago Literary Hall of Fall Inductee Ceremony

Studio Theatre – Guild Literary Complex

Cafe from the 1990s

Coffee break!

To Zygmunt at Chopin Theatre. Best, Gwendolyn Brooks. 2/24/96

Main stage – Jazz event from 1990s

Audiences from 1990s

Visual art event from 1990s

Jazz event from 1990s

Marketing for Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs

West entrance of theater

Teatro Vista The Dream King

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