First Folio Theatre

Production History

First Folio Theatre is in its 25th season of bringing high-quality performances of Shakespeare and other classics to the Chicagoland suburbs. Take a look through our production history and relive your favorites!

∞ Jeff Award   ‡ Jeff Nominated   * Jeff Recommended

2022-2023 Season

Jeeves Intervenes Logo 22-23

Jeeves Intervenes

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

And Neither Have I Wings to Fly

2021-2022 Season

Waiting for Tina Meyer Logo

Waiting for Tina Meyer

Why Dogs Don’t Talk

A long dark-haired woman in a long white dress looks out over a foggy, desolate landscape tinted blue.

THE JIGSAW BRIDE: A Frankenstein Story

A black and white logo of a woman in a wide-brimmed hat, wand she holds a finger to her bright red lips in a "hush" gesture.

Agatha Christie’s THE SECRET COUNCIL

2020-2021 Season

The face of Edgar Allan Poe looms over two men lit by red lighting, the Prisoner on the left, and the Madman on the right.

Madmen & Prisoners: Two Tales by Poe

Cymbeline: A Folk Musical

The First Folio outdoor stage in winter, covered in snow and surrounded by bare trees.

Winter Reading Series

Logo for Bedtime Tales, with a little girl sleeping in bed, dreaming about a rabbit in a blue coat and a orange cat in a black and green outfit.

First Folio Bedtime Tales

The Storytellers Logo, a floral painted tea cup on top of a stack of weathered books.

The First Folio Storytellers Series

2019-2020 Season

The Guys

Sherlock’s Last Case*

Jeeves Saves the Day*

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

SUMMER HIATUS

2018-2019 Season

The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe: A Love Story

All Childish Things*

Chapatti

The Firestorm

Henry V

2017-2018 Season

The Man-Beast

Women in Jeopardy

Mary’s Wedding∞

CHURCHILL

Shrew’d!*

2016-2017 Season

Dr. Seward’s Dracula

Captain Blood!‡

Silent Sky‡

As You Like It

2015-2016 Season

The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe *

Jeeves at Sea *

Fooling Buddha

The Amish Project

A Midsummer Night’s Dream*

2014-2015 Season

The Gravedigger ‡

Laughter on the 23rd Floor *

Love, Loss, and What I Wore *

The Winter’s Tale *

2013-2014 Season

The Rainmaker ‡

Rough Crossing ‡

Salvage ‡

The Merry Wives of Windsor

2012-2013 Season

The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe

Jeeves Takes a Bow

Underneath the Lintel ‡

Cymbeline: A Folk Musical ∞

2011-2012 Season

Tea at Five *

Unnecessary Farce *

The Turn of the Screw ∞

The Merchant of Venice

Shylock and His Daughter

2010-2011 Season

The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe

Blithe Spirit ‡

The Woman in Black

Romeo and Juliet ‡

2009-2010 Season

The Castle of Otranto

Jeeves in Bloom ‡

Will Rogers: An American Original

Twelfth Night ‡

2008-2009 Season

The Passion of Dracula

Design for Living

A Moon for the Misbegotten‡

Macbeth

2007-2008 Season

The Madness of Edgar Allen Poe - Robert Allan Smith

The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe

Jeeves Intervenes ‡

Driving Miss Daisy ‡

Much Ado About Nothing ‡

2006-2007 Season

The Madness of Edgar Allan Poe ‡

Angel Street *

Richard III ‡

2005-2006 Season

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Private Lives ‡

The Tempest

2005 Season

The Importance of Being Earnest ‡

The Taming of the Shrew

2004 Season

Staged Reading Series

Hamlet

A Midsummer Night’s Dream ‡

2003 Season

The Comedy of Errors

2002 Season

Antigone

Twelfth Night *

2001 Season

Macbeth

As You Like It*

2000 Season

Romeo and Juliet

Much Ado About Nothing

1999 Season

The Taming of the Shrew

1998 Season

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

1997 Season

The Tempest

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