Court Theatre announces 2023-24 season, opening with ‘Lion in Winter’

Court Theatre has announced its 2023-24 season. The four-show slate includes James Goldman’s “The Lion in Winter,” directed by Court resident artist Ron OJ Parson; Sophocles’ “Antigone,” directed by associate artistic director Gabrielle Randle-Bent; Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” directed by artistic director Charles Newell; and the World Premiere of “Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution,” penned by Nambi E. Kelley, and directed by Tasia A. Jones.

Court is the resident theater at the University of Chicago and the winner of the 2022 Tony Award for excellence in regional theater. Prior to the pandemic, it typically produced five-show subscription seasons with six-week runs but it has been operating with fewer shows and shorter runs of only about four weeks since that disruption. However, the theater said it was starting its season later than usual due to its return to the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California, this fall to remount a production of “The Gospel at Colonus.”

“The Lion in Winter” is slated to play Nov. 3 to Dec. 3 and will be the only fall show at the Hyde Park Theatre. “Antigone” is scheduled for Feb. 2-25, 2024, and will be a return to one of Court’s specialities, Greek tragedy. “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” an absurdist comedy, is slated for March 29 to April 21, 2024 and “Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution,” a new work about the civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael, will end the season from May 24, 2024 to June 16, 2024.

Chris Jones is a Tribune critic.

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