by Katrina Dion | Sep 30, 2026
A solo show, Good Grief was a warm, loving, and unflinching reflection of Melissa DuPrey’s life on the road with her single mother, who struggled with bipolar disorder. DuPrey recounts her complicated path towards healing and survival in times where there were...
by Katrina Dion | Mar 10, 2026
Free Street Theater presents through the In/House Artist Residency: Rupture/Repair concept + direction by Tanuja Jagernauth devised by and with Marilyn Carteno, Kirsten Baity, and Marya Spont-Lemus About the Show: At a time when conflict and division seems ever...
by Katrina Dion | Dec 8, 2025
Free Street’s Night Out in the Parks show in 2022, There is a Future/Tenemos un Futuro toured five Chicago parks. A fun, interactive, bilingual play for all ages about what to do when you’re being poisoned, the piece was co-directed by staff members Coya Paz...
by Katrina Dion | Dec 8, 2025
Presented through Free Street’s In/House Series, and created and directed by Jerrell L. Henderson, AmericanMYTH: Crossroads was a visually stunning take on the mythologies that have shaped North American culture. Using shadow puppets, live music, and highly...
by Katrina Dion | Aug 25, 2025
There is A Future/Tenemos un futuro, a bilingual performance that premiered in the summer or 2023 as an outdoor show in collaboration with Night Out in the Parks, and then ran at Free Street’s storefront, followed by a tour of Chicago cultural centers, used...
by Katrina Dion | Aug 22, 2025
In 1962, a young woman named Hazel Johnson moved her family to Chicago’s Altgeld Gardens, a public housing project originally designed for Black World War II veterans. What follows is an epic story of loss, environmental disaster, and hope that a united group of...
by Katrina Dion | Aug 22, 2025
Touring the park summer 2024 through Night Out in the Parks, and then at our storefront in the fall, Free Street invited audiences to just lay down for a minute. Stop with the hustle; stop with the grind; stop with the idea that our labor is our value; and get with...
by Katrina Dion | Aug 22, 2025
Water is life. Water is joy. Water is…in trouble. In Parched 2.0, a new play created by Free Street Theater’s youth ensemble, Chicago teens ages 14-19 invited audiences to join them in committing to tangible care for Chicago’s waterways. Alternately funny and...
by Katrina Dion | Aug 22, 2025
Free Street’s In/House Artist-in-Residence presents: El Barzón Original concept by In/House artist, Rocio “Chio” Cabrera Directed by Rocio “Chio Cabrera” & Jasmin Cardenas In Collaboration with WorkersTEATRO Collective Stage Manager:...
by Katrina Dion | Jul 31, 2023
In 2019, our youth ensemble, after a year of deep research and interviewing over 100 individuals, presented a play about both the power of water, and way it is polluted & stolen, focusing on the water injustices in the city of Chicago.
