Victory Gardens Theater Presents Seven New Plays: From the Playwrights Ensemble

by Sandy Shinner

In 2001, Victory Gardens Theater received the Tony Award for Regional Theatre and was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the country's most important playwrights' theaters." This recognition helped the theater take its rightful place alongside Chicago's world-class local theaters. Nearly 250 plays have been produced at Victory Gardens since it was founded in 1974. More than half of these plays have been world premieres, many of which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810123460
• ISBN13: 9780810123465
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.5"

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