Court Theatre
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Grants
14
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Total Awarded
$1,347,500
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Years
1983 - 2017
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Categories
Grants
2017 (2 years)
$120,000
Court Theatre, based at the University of Chicago, presents five productions each year that include classic works, pieces from the African American canon, and American plays and musicals. Court Theatre’s audience includes more than 30,000 patrons annually. It works with more than 4,000 Chicago Public School students, mostly from the south side of Chicago, through its arts education initiatives. This award recommends two years of renewed general operating support to the Court Theatre.
2012 (5 years)
$262,500
This grant provides renewed multi-year general operating support to Court Theatre, which was founded in 1955 and is known for its interesting and challenging adaptations of classic works and classic texts for the stage. Court has been particularly successful in increasing its audience by exploring classic African American texts. Court Theatre serves 35,000 patrons annually, 24% of whom come from the surrounding neighborhoods of Hyde Park and Kenwood, while 56% are from the greater Chicago area. Four hundred south side high school students also participate each year in intensive in-school and extracurricular programs, and 3,200 Chicago-area teens annually attend the theatre’s deeply-discounted student matinees.
2002 (1 year)
$50,000
To support work with high schools in Chicago neighborhoods.
1993 (3 years)
$120,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1991 (1 year)
$75,000
To support the Artistic and Organizational Development Plan.
1991 (1 year)
$70,000
In support of general operations (over two years).
1988 (2 years 2 months)
$90,000
In support of general operations (over three years).
1986 (1 year 1 month)
$60,000
In support of general operations (over two years).
1984 (1 year)
$40,000
In support of general operations (over two years).
1983 (1 year)
$20,000
In support of general operations.
