Chopin Theatre 5.07

1543 W Division St
Chicago, IL 60642
United States

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Founded in 1990, Chopin Theatre has grown into one of America’s most active arts centers, producing, co-producing or presenting over 500 theater, music, film, literary and social events each year. Our mission is to promote enlightened civic discourse through a diverse range of artistic offerings. A privately-held institution, it operates without public funding.


Chopin Theatre has produced over 110 of its own productions, mostly Eastern European, and has hosted performers from every state in the U.S. and from over 40 countries. Our many guests have included Pulitzer winners Gwendolyn Brooks, Yusef Komunyakaa, Phillip Levine, Charles Simic and Studs Terkel; MacArthur Genius receiptents David Cromer, Stuart Dybek, Aleksander Hemon and Ken Vandermark; authors Haki Madhubuti, Sara Paretsky, Art Shay, Zadie Smith, Bronislaw Wildstein and Howard Zinn; poets Nikki Giovanni, Luis Rodriguez, Mark Smith, Michael Warr and Adam Zagaewski; actors John Cusak and Jeremy Piven; musicians Edward Auer, Peter Brotzman, Chuck D., Kurt Elling, Von Freeman, Fareed Haque, Adam Makowicz and Dominic Miller; and visual artists Andrzej Dudzinski, Tony Fitzpatrick, Piotr Krajewski, Ed Paschke and Franciszek Starowiejski.


Chopin Theatre's I-Fest , an international festival of solo performances, brought to Chicago artists from 10 countries -- Austria, England, Finland, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Ukraine.

The building of the Chopin Theatre was designed in 1918 by M.F. Strunch Architects as a 987 seat theater at 1541-1543 W. Division. According to the Theatre Historical Society of America, the theatre's name has changed several times over the years from Chopin Theatre to Harding Theatre, back to Chopin Theatre and then to the Pix Theatre from 1940-1948. During the next 40 years it went through a number of alternate uses: Security Federal Savings and Loan; thrift shop, discotheque, etc. In 1990 the vacant building was purchased by the Dyrkacz family and gradually restored. Today it houses a Main Stage (226), Cabaret Studio (50-100) with its Pregnant Buffalo Lounge, the Nelson Algren Café, East Wing Art Gallery and the office/residence of owners Zygmunt and Lela Dyrkacz.

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