Welcome to Lookingglass!
Lookingglass Theatre Company redefines the limits of theatrical experience. Our goal is to fire the imagination with love, to celebrate the human capacity to taste and smell, weep and laugh, create and destroy, and wake up where we first fell – changed, charged, and empowered.
LEARN MOREPortal
As part of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks, this boisterous and interactive production encourages us to close the computer and open the window. These performances are free, public events, accessible to all.
LEARN MORELookingglass Marketplace: Journey Through the Season
Join us on September 28 at Aster Hall for brunch, and visit our marketplace booths to learn about what we have planned for our 2024-2025 Season. Get a first look this season’s shows, meet our artists, get the scoop on our education programs, and learn about how you can help us put the magic on stage, in our new lobby, and all around the city!
Young Ensemble Auditions
For over 26 years, the Lookingglass Young Ensemble (YE) has remained committed to building theater skills, lifting voices, and developing creativity through collaborative creation. The Young Ensemble meets each Winter – Spring, receives support and mentorship from Lookingglass artists, and builds an original public performance that will premiere in our newly renovated theatre in March 2025.
PBS Lookingglass Alice
Last December, Lookingglass Alice, produced in association with the Actors Gymnasium and HMS Media, premiered nationwide on PBS! This epic tale may not be running on your local PBS station anymore, but it is still available to watch at your fingertips! Access Lookingglass Alice at any time by becoming a PBS Passport member.
WATCH NOWWe are each other’s harvest;
we are each other’s business;
we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
– Gwendolyn Brooks
We at Lookingglass believe that our work and our lives are infinitely more complex, rewarding, illuminating, and nearer to truth when we have a wider variety of human experiences in the room, at the table, and on our stage.
Every day brings opportunity for growth and understanding, and we embrace it. Our developing AEI statement can be found here in its current form.
