— 16th Season — ​

Chicago
by Maurine Watkins
October 13–23, 2022
An Actors' Equity–Approved Showcase

All patrons will be required to provide proof of vaccination and wear a mask at all times.
There will be no interaction with actors.
There will be limited seating in the audience and groups/pods will be socially distanced.
Director: Lin Snider
Stage Manager: Kevin E. Thompson
Fight Director: Jo DiNozzi
​Scenic Designer: Harlan Penn
Costume Designer: Katherine Roberson
Wardrobe/Costume Assistant: Omar Sama'ey

Lighting Designer: Stephen Cornelius
Sound Designer: Nicholas Wilson
Properties Manager: Sanath Wijeratne
Publicist: Michelle Tabnick PR

Lead ASL Interpreter: Cathleen M. Markland
ASL Interpreter: Dylan Geil
ASK Interpreter: Aisha Simpson

​Production Team
Producer: Halina Malinowski
Associate Producer: Susan Case
About Chicago
Chicago is a 1926 play written by Maurine Dallas Watkins that is best known as the inspiration for the 1975 Broadway musical of the same name. The play, while fiction, is a satire based on two unrelated 1924 court cases involving two women, Beulah Annan (the inspiration for Roxie Hart) and Belva Gaertner (the inspiration for Velma), who were both suspected and later acquitted of murder, whom Watkins had covered for the Chicago Tribune as a reporter.

​Watkins wrote the script (originally titled Brave Little Woman) as a class assignment while attending the Yale Drama School. The play debuted on Broadway at the Sam Harris Theatre in late December 1926, directed by George Abbott, where it ran for 172 performances.
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​Running time: TBA.

CAST
Susanne Brinnitzer​
Sheila Dehner*
Susanna Frazer*
Kelly Gilmore
James Harter*
Mark Hofmaier*
Kubbi*
Jane Marx
Eric R. Moreland*
Eve Packer*
Jeffery Passero
Jenny Tucker*

* Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association


​ASL Interpreters (10/22 at 3:00pm Performance)
Cathleen M. Markland
​Dylan Geil
​Aisha Simpson


​Bernie Wohl Center
647 Columbus Avenue
Between 91st & 92nd Street
 New York, NY 10025

​Thursday | 10/13 & 10/20 at 8pm
Friday | 10/14 & 10/21 at 8pm
Saturday | 10/15 & 10/22*  at 3pm
Saturday | 10/15 & 10/22 at 8pm
Sunday | 10/16 & 10/23 at 3pm 

​*This performance will feature ASL interpretation.

Production Photos

Rehearsal Photos