TimeLine Theatre Company announced Thursday that it won’t produce its own dedicated season during 2024-25, but instead will engage in co-productions with nonprofit theaters across the Chicago area and at DePaul University.
Those shows will include the previously announced fall production of “Falsettos” at Court Theatre in Hyde Park, directed by Nick Bowling, and a yet-to-be-announced show at Writers Theatre in north suburban Glencoe. That title is unannounced because Writers Theatre has not yet announced its new season.
The unusual TimeLine plan also includes the Chicago premiere of “Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley” as adapted and directed by Christopher McElroen for his company the american vicarious. The play will be presented on the DePaul University campus at Cortelyou Commons, 2324 N. Fremont St., from Jan. 29 to March 25, 2025, in partnership with The Theatre School at DePaul University.
The american vicarious is a Brooklyn-based performance company that has been touring this show in both the U.S. and the U.K.; it’s an exploration of the famous, or infamous, debate between William F. Buckley, Jr. and James Baldwin held at Cambridge University in 1965.
TimeLine Theatre is moving out of its longtime home on Wellington Avenue and is currently raising funds for a new theater at 5033 N. Broadway, as reported in the Tribune in 2018.
Chris Jones is a Tribune critic.
cjones5@chicagotribune.com
