Goodman Theatre updates season: Life After takes the place of Outsiders
Goodman Theatre continues its 2021/2022 Homecoming Season into the new year with several scheduling updates. Tony Award-winner Robert Falls marks 35 years as Goodman Artistic Director-a position from which he will step down at season's end-by directing the world premiere of Rebecca Gilman's Swing State, his sixth play by his longtime collaborator, in the Owen Theatre. In addition, the Goodman will produce the Chicago premiere of composer/lyricist Britta Johnson's new musical Life After-"luminous...lush, poetic and surprisingly funny" (San Diego Union-Tribune)-directed by Annie Tippe in the Albert Theatre. NOTE: Life After replaces the previously announced musical adaptation of The Outsiders, based on S.E. Hinton's novel and Francis Ford Coppola's film, which has been postponed to a future date to be announced.
Six plays (including one to be announced) are still to come in the 2021/2022 Season (through July 2022): Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson, directed by Chuck Smith (January 22 - February 27); The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci adapted and directed by Mary Zimmerman (February 11 - March 20); Good Night, Oscar by Doug Wright, directed by Lisa Peterson (March 12 - April 17); Swing State by Rebecca Gilman, directed by Robert Falls (April 1 - May 1); and Life After by Britta Johnson, directed by Annie Tippe (June 11 - July 17).