The Hypocrites (theatre company)

Their recent production of Graney's All Our Tragic, a twelve-hour adaptation combining all 32 surviving Greek Tragedies, garnered the company six 2015 Equity Jeff Awards in its first year of eligibility.“’A watershed moment for off-Loop theater.” – Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune (All Our Tragic, 2014)Graney's musical adaptations of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore have become audience and critic favorites, being remounted numerous times in Chicago as well as going on tour to American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Olney Theater Center.''“Cromer calibrates 'Our Town' with clear-eyed intelligence. You see the beauties of small-town America and its limitations, laid out before you as directly and powerfully as the Chicago theater can muster.” – Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune (Our Town, 2008)'' == Awards ==

Since the company's founding, The Hypocrites have produced over sixty main stage productions and a dozen festival pieces, securing thirty-one Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson awards, six Equity Joseph Jefferson awards, and two After Dark Awards. The American Theatre Wing, best known as the creator of the Tony Awards, presented The Hypocrites with one of the 2013 National Theatre Company awards. The company's smash-hit production of Our Town, directed by David Cromer, transferred in 2009 to Off-Broadway, Los Angeles and Boston. The Hypocrites began performing in the basement of Café Voltaire, a now defunct vegetarian restaurant in Lakeview. Co-founder Sean Graney has been the artistic director since early 2015, when he announced his return from a three-year hiatus. The company's name is inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s Notes and Counter Notes, a compendium of interviews on the nature of theatre throughout which Ionesco regularly contradicts himself — hence its title, and The Hypocrites' name. == Production history ==

Season 1 • The Bald Soprano • Woyzeck • Endgame • Action Season 2 • Edmond • The Danube • The Firebugs • The Future is in Eggs • Marat/Sade Season 3 • Curse of the Starving Class • Jack, or the Submission & The Future is in Eggs • The Cherry Orchard Season 4 • Lakeboat • Ajax • The Curious Sofa • Arcadia Season 5 • Blood Wedding • Rhinoceros • Leviticus 18 • Henry 5 Season 6 • Machinal • Happy Days • Balm in Gilead • Edward Gorey’s Dispirited Diversion for Christmas Season 7 • Camille/La Traviata • Leonce & Lena • The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide Season 8 • Equus • The Christmas Carol – A Radio Broadcast • The Glass Menagerie • True West Season 9 • Death of a Salesman • 4.48 Psychosis • Angels in America, Part I – Millennium Approaches • Angels in America, Part II – Perestroika Season 10 • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof • Mud • The Bald Soprano Season 11 • Desire Under the Elms • Miss Julie • Our Town Season 12 • The Threepenny Opera • Our Town Remounted • The Hairy Ape • Oedipus Season 13 • Frankenstein • Cabaret • No Exit Season 14 • K. • Pirates of Penzance • Woyzeck Season 15 • Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses • Pirates of Penzance (Remount) • Six Characters in Search of an Author • Romeo Juliet Season 16 • The Fall of the House of Usher • Gilbert & Sullivan Repertory • Coriolanus • Ivywild: The True Tall Tales of Bathhouse John Season 17 • 12 Nights • The Mikado at Steppenwolf Garage • The Tennessee Williams Project • Into the Woods at Mercury Theatre Chicago Season 18 • All Our Tragic • Gilbert and Sullivan Rep: Mikado, Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore • Endgame • Three Sisters Season 19 • American Idiot • The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide • The Ruffians' Burning Bluebeard • The Glass Menagerie • Adding Machine: The Musical • Johanna Faustus Season 20 • You on the Moors Now • Cinderella at the Theater for Potatoes • Wit • The House of Martin Guerre • Las Meninas == References ==