From the Midway to Broadway (And Back Again): Stereophonic at Broadway in Chicago
Open to UChicago Students
Thursday, January 29, 2025 from 5:00pm to 10:15pm.
Performance: CIBC Theatre - 18 West Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603
Pre-Performance Reception and Conversation with Daniel Aukin and Devon de Mayo: Kimpton Gray Hotel, Adler Ballroom, 15th Floor - 122 W Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60603
ArtsPass Discounted Price: $17 ($15 plus $2 Box Office fee) – Seating is limited
Tickets on sale now using the link above - purchase tickets by Monday, January 26th at the latest (whiles supplies last)
Join us for a UChicago ArtsPass exclusive performance of Stereophonic, featuring a pre-performance student / alumni reception and conversation with the play’s director and UChicago alum Daniel Aukin, AB’93 and Devon de Mayo, Director of Performance and Assistant Senior Instructional Professor in Theater and Performance Studies, on Thursday, January 29th.
The most Tony Award-winning Show of 2024. The most Tony Award-nominated Play of all time. Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures could spark their breakup - or their breakthrough.
Written by David Adjmi, directed by Daniel Aukin, and featuring original music by Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, Stereophonic invites the audience to immerse themselves - with fly-on-the-wall intimacy - in the powder keg process of a band on the brink of blowing up.
UChicago alum, Daniel Aukin, AB’93 is a New York-based Director. Broadway: David Adjmi’s Stereophonic , Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love . Recent Off Broadway: Stereophonic , Mia Chung’s Catch As Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons) and Emily Feldman’s The Best We Could (MTC); also, world premieres of new plays by Joshua Harmon, Abe Koogler, Dan LeFranc, Amy Herzog, Melissa James Gibson, Itamar Moses, Michael Friedman, Mark Schultz, Mac Wellman, Quincy Long and Maria Irene Fornes including Bad Jews (Roundabout), 4000 MILES (Lincoln Center), The Fortress of Solitude (The Public) and [sic] (Soho Rep). Artistic Director of Soho Rep. (1998-2006) and a founding member of Physical Plant based in Austin, Texas. Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, OBIE and Callaway Awards.
Schedule:
4:30 pm - Bus Departs Logan Center, 915 East 60th Street
5:00 pm - Reception with Alumni and conversation
6:45 pm - Conversation ends and group moves to CIBC
7:00 pm - Show begins
10:15pm - End of show and Bus Returns to Logan Center
Note: Performance Tickets can be picked up at the Kimpton Gray Hotel reception check in until 6 pm or at the CIBC Theater Box Office after 6:15 pm
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