Goodman Theatre believes that theater is more than a play or a place: it is an inspiring, expansive lens on the world that can profoundly…
Disgraced, by playwright, novelist, screenwriter and actor Ayad Akhtar, premiered in Chicago in 2012 at American Theatre Company. The play then went on to New York’s Lincoln Center Theater, subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize and later transferred to Broadway, where it earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Play....
It begins innocuously enough. A young, upwardly mobile Wall Street attorney (and lapsed Muslim) and his beautiful, idealistic (and Caucasian) artist wife are throwing…
In a world in which many things (including plays) are easily categorized, Charise Castro Smith’s Feathers and Teeth is a delightful anomaly. At first glance,…
In Disgraced, Chicago-based actor Behzad Dabu portrays Abe, the 22-year-old nephew of successful Manhattan lawyer Amir. Abe’s request for his uncle to assist a…
The action of Disgraced unfolds over four different scenes set in the luxurious Manhattan apartment of wealthy lawyer Amir Kapoor and his artist wife…
For the first time in its history, Goodman Theatre dips a toe into the crimson waters of horror this fall with playwright Charise Castro…
“After September 11, I realized that I wasn't going to be able to run away from myself,” Disgraced playwright Ayad Akhtar recently said during…
Now among the most celebrated American plays of this decade, Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced will soon become among the most performed, with more than 20…
