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Emma's Child


  • City Lit Theater 1020 West Bryn Mawr Avenue Chicago, IL, 60660 United States (map)

by Kristine Thatcher

directed by Terry McCabe

April 15 - May 29, 2022

(Previews Apr. 15 - 23)

One of the great Chicago plays. By City Lit's resident playwright, author of Voice of Good Hope and The Safe House. It won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a half-dozen other playwriting awards when Terry directed the Chicago premiere at Victory Gardens twenty-five years ago. A Rogers Park couple plans to adopt the child of Emma, a pregnant teenager. What follows threatens their marriage and reshapes what they think of parenthood.

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