TimeLine Theatre Company announces the first show in its new Uptown space
Chicago's TimeLine Theatre has announced its transitional 2025-26 season, including the first production scheduled for its new home, currently under construction in the city's Uptown neighborhood.
The three-show slate includes the fall world premiere of 'Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars' (October to November) by longtime Chicago writer and performer Sandra Delgado, directed by Kimberly Senior and presented at the Lookingglass Theatre Company's Water Tower Water Works, 163 E. Pearson St. This will mark the first time Lookingglass has rented its Magnificent Mile space to an external resident company.
The second show, slated for the winter, is the recent Broadway hit 'Eureka Day' (February to March 2026), a satire about a progressive preschool with entitled parents. Jonathan Spector's play will be directed for TimeLine by Lili-Anne Brown and staged at a Chicago venue yet to be announced.
The plan changed, but TimeLine Theatre finally begins construction on its new Uptown homeThe third show, the debut of TimeLine's new space, will be Amy Herzog's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 'An Enemy of the People' (May to June 2026), also recently seen on Broadway. Ron OJ Parson will direct a production that TimeLine plans to open in June at the new TimeLine Theatre, a black-box space seating 250 patrons and located at 5035 N. Broadway.
Specific run dates for all three shows have yet to be determined.
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