Tuesday, April 16, 2024

• • 7:30 pm
    
  • Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave

  Illinois Theatre Presents: The Gangster Play: Circus/Circus (Forcibly Adapted from Brecht's The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui)

  Brecht’s 1941 satirical allegory of Hitler’s rise to power, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, follows the elevation of a 1930s Chicago mobster who works a corrupt political and economic system to his advantage.

  • Performance