Block Club Chicago: 6 Shows To See In April

(From left) Lukas Felix Schooler as Leonard, James Sparling as Dominic and Hannah Perez as Anne in The Dover Road. (Photo by Maria Burnham)

The Dover Road is one of Block Club Chicago's 6 Shows to See in April.

“Spring has finally arrived, and with it a new crop of exciting Chicago theater productions.

One trend we’re loving is productions set in unusual places: Recently “The Beauty Project” staged performances in a beauty salon, and this month Ghostlight Theatre is hosting a production of a little-known A.A. Milne play in the coach house of Glessner House in the Prairie Avenue historic district.”

Read more about it here and then G.E.T. your tickets for this “hidden gem of a play” in advance here. We open next week. And it’s an experience you won’t want to miss.

Read more: Ghostlight 'Aims To Bring Voices Of Black Women, People Of Color To The Forefront'

Princess Without Pots, 2018

Block Club Chicago recently covered our leadership change and plans for the upcoming season.

Learn more about our new Co-Artistic Director Kayla V. White and the company’s plans for the future in that piece.

“I’m really excited about centering newer Black and Brown playwrights, particularly Chicago-based ones, for the upcoming season and helping them shape their piece and create something new,” White said. “That’s so exciting to me.”

White said the company also will have a reading series highlighting “lost plays” from female writers of color, with an emphasis on works from Black women.

“A lot of people tend to do the same shows. Chicago does mix it up but often it’s a retelling the same types of stories,” White said. “So this series will have a special emphasis on people of color to go back and explore a lot of different plays that are available to us. They exist, but people just aren’t really using them.”