Chicago Little Theatre

Chicago, Italy

The Chicago Little Theatre was an American theater company formed in 1912. It spearheaded and lent its name to a historic, popular wave in American theater, the Little Theatre Movement. Founded in its namesake city by Ellen Van Volkenburg and Maurice Browne, the company was an art theater formed in

opposition to the commercial values which held sway at the time. The company performed work by contemporary writers and Greek classics, as well as pioneering puppetry and puppet plays. Poetic dramas, restrained acting and new concepts in scenography were hallmarks of the Chicago Little Theatre.

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