Chicago Little Theatre

Chicago Little Theatre
	Chicago Little Theatre program, 1915
Address	412 South Michigan Avenue
Location	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Coordinates	41°52′35″N 87°37′28″W / 41.87639°N 87.62444°W
Owner	Ellen Van Volkenburg, Maurice Browne
Operator	Fine Arts Building
Type	Regional theatre
Opened	1912; 112 years ago
Closed	1917

A theater company formed in 1912, the Chicago Little Theatre spearheaded and lent its name^[1] to a historic, popular wave in American Theater, the Little Theatre Movement. Founded in its namesake city by Ellen Van Volkenburg and Maurice Browne, the company was an art theater formed in opposition to the commercial values which held sway at the time.^[2] The company performed work by contemporary writers and Greek classics, as well as pioneering puppetry and puppet plays. Poetic dramas, restrained acting and new concepts in scenography were hallmarks of the Chicago Little Theatre.

^ Lock, Charles. "Maurice Browne and the Chicago Little Theatre." Modern Drama 31.1, 1988. p 109.
^ Browne, Maurice. Too Late to Lament: An Autobiography. London, Gollancz, 1955; p 111 .

[1] Lock, Charles. "Maurice Browne and the Chicago Little Theatre." Modern Drama 31.1, 1988. p 109.

[2] Browne, Maurice. Too Late to Lament: An Autobiography. London, Gollancz, 1955; p 111 .

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