The Hypocrites (theatre company)

The Hypocrites is a Chicago storefront theater company founded in 1997 by Sean Graney, Brandon Kruse and Christopher Cintron. The company is currently run by Sean Graney (artistic director) and Kelli Strickland (executive director). One of Chicago’s premier off-Loop theater companies, The Hypocrites specializes in mounting bold productions that challenge preconceptions and redefining the role of the audience through unusual staging (such as promenade and in-the-round) and direct engagement. The company has a reputation in Chicago for creating exciting, surprising, and deeply engaging theater as it re-interprets well-known works for contemporary audiences, reveling in the absurd while revealing the core of what makes classics classic.

“The Hypocrites, who with each new production, continue to rise not just to the rank of one of our city’s best storefronts but one of Chicago’s best theaters period.” – Newcity Stage (American Idiot, 2015)^[1]

The company has grown significantly in the past few years, receiving acclaim for productions at the Steppenwolf Garage, Goodman Theatre, Museum of Contemporary Art, DCASE Storefront, Chopin Theater and nationally at American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Adaptations

Their recent production of Graney's All Our Tragic, a twelve-hour adaptation combining all 32 surviving Greek Tragedies, garnered the company six 2015 Equity Jeff Awards in its first year of eligibility.

“’A watershed moment for off-Loop theater.” – Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune (All Our Tragic, 2014)^[2]

Graney's musical adaptations of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore have become audience and critic favorites, being remounted numerous times in Chicago as well as going on tour to American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Olney Theater Center.

“Cromer calibrates 'Our Town' with clear-eyed intelligence. You see the beauties of small-town America and its limitations, laid out before you as directly and powerfully as the Chicago theater can muster.” – Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune (Our Town, 2008)^[3]

Awards

Since the company's founding, The Hypocrites have produced over sixty main stage productions and a dozen festival pieces, securing thirty-one Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson awards, six Equity Joseph Jefferson awards, and two After Dark Awards.

The American Theatre Wing, best known as the creator of the Tony Awards, presented The Hypocrites with one of the 2013 National Theatre Company awards. The company's smash-hit production of Our Town, directed by David Cromer, transferred in 2009 to Off-Broadway, Los Angeles and Boston.

The Hypocrites began performing in the basement of Café Voltaire, a now defunct vegetarian restaurant in Lakeview.^[4] Co-founder Sean Graney has been the artistic director since early 2015, when he announced his return from a three-year hiatus.^[5] The company's name is inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s Notes and Counter Notes, a compendium of interviews on the nature of theatre throughout which Ionesco regularly contradicts himself — hence its title, and The Hypocrites' name.

Production history

Season 1

The Bald Soprano
Woyzeck
Endgame
Action

Season 2

Edmond
The Danube
The Firebugs
The Future is in Eggs
Marat/Sade

Season 3

Curse of the Starving Class
Jack, or the Submission & The Future is in Eggs
The Cherry Orchard

Season 4

Lakeboat
Ajax
The Curious Sofa
Arcadia

Season 5

Blood Wedding
Rhinoceros
Leviticus 18
Henry 5

Season 6

Machinal
Happy Days
Balm in Gilead
Edward Gorey’s Dispirited Diversion for Christmas

Season 7

Camille/La Traviata
Leonce & Lena
The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide

Season 8

Equus
The Christmas Carol – A Radio Broadcast
The Glass Menagerie
True West

Season 9

Death of a Salesman
4.48 Psychosis
Angels in America, Part I – Millennium Approaches
Angels in America, Part II – Perestroika

Season 10

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Mud
The Bald Soprano

Season 11

Desire Under the Elms
Miss Julie
Our Town

Season 12

The Threepenny Opera
Our Town Remounted
The Hairy Ape
Oedipus

Season 13

Frankenstein
Cabaret
No Exit

Season 14

K.
Pirates of Penzance
Woyzeck

Season 15

Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses
Pirates of Penzance (Remount)
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Romeo Juliet

Season 16

The Fall of the House of Usher
Gilbert & Sullivan Repertory
Coriolanus
Ivywild: The True Tall Tales of Bathhouse John

Season 17

12 Nights
The Mikado at Steppenwolf Garage
The Tennessee Williams Project
Into the Woods at Mercury Theatre Chicago

Season 18

All Our Tragic
Gilbert and Sullivan Rep: Mikado, Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore
Endgame
Three Sisters

Season 19

American Idiot
The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide
The Ruffians' Burning Bluebeard
The Glass Menagerie
Adding Machine: The Musical
Johanna Faustus

Season 20

You on the Moors Now
Cinderella at the Theater for Potatoes
Wit
The House of Martin Guerre
Las Meninas

References

^ "Review: American Idiot/The Hypocrites". Newcity Stage. 7 September 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
^ "REVIEW: 'All Our Tragic' by The Hypocrites ★★★★". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
^ "'Our Town' director David Cromer does this town proud". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
^ "What the Director Saw: Onstage with the Hypocrites' Sean Graney". The Chicago Weekly. 2007-11-21. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
^ Weinert-Kendt, Rob (January 29, 2015). "The Real Story Behind Sean Graney's Return to the Hypocrites". American Theatre. Retrieved November 22, 2015.

External links

The Hypocrites Website [1]

[1] "Review: American Idiot/The Hypocrites". Newcity Stage. 7 September 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-02.

[2] "REVIEW: 'All Our Tragic' by The Hypocrites ★★★★". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2015-12-02.

[3] "'Our Town' director David Cromer does this town proud". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved 2015-12-02.

[4] "What the Director Saw: Onstage with the Hypocrites' Sean Graney". The Chicago Weekly. 2007-11-21. Retrieved 2014-04-17.

[5] Weinert-Kendt, Rob (January 29, 2015). "The Real Story Behind Sean Graney's Return to the Hypocrites". American Theatre. Retrieved November 22, 2015.

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The Hypocrites (theatre company)

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Production history

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