Act Well Your Part, Designing Hull-House Theatre

Join Hour Studio for a conversation and celebration of Hull-House Theatre and graphic design. In conversation with Hull-House staff, and the audience, designers Tobey Albright and Mollie Edgar reflect upon the work of reimagining over a century of design for performance at the country’s most influential social settlement, engaging design as a mode of reproducing history in the present.

Act Well Your Part is an exhibition and festival hosted at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum celebrating the legacies of Hull-House Theatre and building a future of civically engaged theatre in Chicago. A theatrical hub for the city of Chicago for over a century, Hull-House played a pivotal role in the development of community theatre, the Little Theatre movement, Improv, and Chicago’s iconic non-profit theatre scene. Taking its name from the epigraph emblazoned above the original Hull-House stage, Act Well Your Part, There All the Honor Lies reframes contemporary Chicago theatre as an essential part of the city’s civic fabric.

Act Well Your Part is supported by the Discovery Partners Institute.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S. Halsted Street, Chicago, United States