May 31--Prologue Theatre Company, the Chicago company dedicated to producing "new and forgotten works from under-represented voices," has reached the end of its eight-year run.
The company was founded in 2009 by Jessica Eisenberg-Chamblee, Margo Gray, Carrie Hardin, Amanda Renee King and Whitney Morse.
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Notable productions included the Steppenwolf Garage production of Katori Hall's "Saturday Night/Sunday Morning," about seven black women who frequent a Memphis beauty shop, which received an honorable mention on Tribune critic Kerry Reid's Best of 2014 list. Reid wrote: "In TaRon Patton's direction, the interplay between the characters mostly feels fresh, spontaneous and highly watchable."
Prologue's staging of Chay Yew's play "Porcelain," which opened in June 2015 at the Greenhouse Theater Center, will be preserved on video with The Chicago Film Archive of Performance. Reid called Yew's play "a vibrant and pointed look at desire and difference" in her review. "Porcelain" was nominated for a 2015 Jeff award for lighting design.
In an e-mailed statement, artistic director Angela Alise said: "Long before others were even talking about diversity, we made it our mission. Now it's time for us as individuals to take our voices and influence other areas."
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