The mission of The Gift is to tell great stories onstage with honesty and simplicity...how great is that?!

So purchase this item and you and a guest will be able to see one of the fabulous plays presented this season, including: 

THINNER THAN WATER
Three estranged half-siblings reunite upon their father’s illness in this blood-raw, and wicked comedy-drama about fighting through the thick-and-thin of family.

OTHELLO
Shakespeare’s timeless and timely tragedy comes to The Gift in a landmark production where very little is simply black and white.

BETHANY
Caught in the middle of the Great Recession, cash-strapped Crystal navigates the worlds of motivational speaking, survivalism, and a Saturn dealership to make a home in this shocking drama which reteams the playwright and director of last season’s Mine. 

ABOUT: Conceived while students at The University of Iowa in 1997 by Michael Patrick Thornton and William Nedved, the idea for The Gift was to grow and nurture an ensemble and lay roots in an artistically underserved Chicago neighborhood. Heavily influenced by a class called “Alternative Approaches To Acting” taught by Dr. Eric Forsythe, the name of the theatre came from Jerzy Grotowski’s Towards A Poor Theatre:

“Acting is a particularly thankless art. It dies with the actor. Nothing survives him but the reviews, which do not usually do him justice anyway, whether he is good or bad. So the only source of satisfaction left to him is the audience’s reactions. The actor, in this special process of discipline and self-sacrifice, self-penetration and molding, is not afraid to go beyond all normally acceptable limits…The actor makes a total gift of himself.”