Under his leadership, the Hyde Park theater won the 2022 regional Tony Award.
Artistic director Charles Newell, left, and executive director Angel Ysaguirre outside Court Theatre in May 2022, when it won the regional theater Tony Award.
Charles Newell, the artistic director of Chicago’s Court Theatre since 1994, will step down as artistic director next summer after a 30-year run, the theater is announcing Friday. “This is a good time for me to look for my next challenge,” said Newell, 66. He is only the second artistic director of the Hyde Park theater, after founding artistic director Nicholas Rudall. Court Theatre is resident at the University of Chicago and dates back to an outdoor summer theater in the 1950s.
Longer term, he said he intends to remain a Chicago resident and direct elsewhere in the city. The search for Newell’s replacement at Court Theatre will be managed by the university which, over the years, has become more closely involved with the running of the theater, although Court retains a separate board of directors.
Court’s location on the Hyde Park campus has afforded it the luxury of finding a ready audience for weighty intellectual fare, and it long has specialized in literary adaptations and canonical works, such as Moliere comedies, the Homeric adaptation of
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