History
Since its founding Chopin Theatre's purpose has been to support, present and produce avant-garde theater, literary, film, visual and performance art events. Established in 1990, it has had approximately 1,400 events with over 7,000 presentations (5,000 theatrical, 900 film, 600 literary evenings and over 500 music, dance, visual arts and social presentations).
Chopin Theatre has also produced over 110 of its own productions, mostly Eastern European, and has hosted performers from each American state and from over 40 countries. Its many guests have included Pulitzer winners Gwendolyn Brooks, Yusef Komunyakaa and Studs Terkel; authors Stuart Dybek, Aleksandar Hemon, Haki Madhubuti, Sara Paretsky, Art Shay, Zadie Smith, Bronislaw Wildstein and Howard Zinn; poets Nikki Giovanni, Luis Rodriguez, Mark Smith, Michael Warr and Adam Zagajewski; actors John Cusack and Jeremy Piven; acclaimed musicians Edward Auer, Peter Brotzman, Chuck D., Kurt Elling, Von Freeman, Fareed Haque, Adam Makowicz and Rob Mazurek.
Chopin Theatre has also organized over 60 interviews or “Spotkania” with leading Polish and Polish American cultural and political figures including W. Adamczyk, G. Auguscik, U. Dudziak, A. Dudzinski, S. Dybek, J. Englert, S. Fabicki, F. Falk, N. Goerke, R.Horowitz, K.Kalkowski, T. Karpowicz, T. Konwicki, K. Krauze, I. Krosny, R. Krynicki, F. Kujawinski, L. Madzik, B. Maj, P. Marcinkiewicz, A. Nowak, M. Nowakowski, J. Peszek, M. Płażyński, P. Sommer, F. Starowiejski, A. Stasiuk, G. Stec, J. Szajna, J. Trzeciak, B. Tyszkiewicz, B. Wildstein, B. Wroclawski and A. Zagajewski
Chopin Theatre is also the producer of I-Fest, Ideas in Motion I-Fest, an international festival of solo performances which has brought to Chicago 17 international artists from 10 countries—Austria, England, Finland, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Ukraine.
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