by Elizabeth Nungaray | Nov 21, 2025 | News
UPDATE! Do you want to support our rent rally and interact with visionary storytellers shaping Chicago’s narrative? Join us for a conversation with four Chicago writers (Natlie Moore, Luis Urrea, José Olivarez, and Megan Steilstra) as we collectively imagine a...
by Katrina Dion | Oct 8, 2025 | Events, News
Free Street Theater has never been one to have a “season announcement.” Just as much as we believe in environmental, economic and racial justice, we also believe in flexibility, care, and responsiveness. If we want to truly be in partnership with our community...
by coya | Oct 29, 2018 | News
Amores, this morning Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune published an article on the Green Line Performing Arts Center Grand Opening. It came with an outrageously misleading headline: “Finally, a Chicago-style Storefront for the Southside,” which received...
by coya | Oct 8, 2018 | Events, News
Call for collaborators! Free Street is looking for people to work on *still here: a manifesto for survival*. This ensemble piece, which will tour public spaces throughout the summer of 2019, draws on speculative fiction and acts of radical imagination to ask what the...
by coya | Sep 21, 2018 | News
At Free Street, we joke that we have THE WORST business model in the world. We pay everyone that works with us (theater is a job) AND we offer all of our programming for free/pay-what-you-can (theater isn’t a luxury). We are committed to finding ways to break down the...
by coya | Aug 9, 2018 | News
Thanks to The Joyce Foundation, Free Street’s Storyfront in Back of the Yards will be expanding its programming beyond Meet Juan-ito Doe. In the coming months, look for a new weekly comedy show, a reinas/drag queen story hour, and a range of community-proposed...
