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End of the Zeroes: Greatest Hits of the Decade

by Brian Hieggelke | December 16, 2009

by Brian Hieggelke
December 16, 2009Filed under:
  • -News etc.
Peter DeFaria and Randy Steinmeyer in "A Steady Rain" at Chicago Dramatists

Peter DeFaria and Randy Steinmeyer in "A Steady Rain" at Chicago Dramatists

Annoyance Theatre
Coed Prison Sluts: $64,000, 5,380 people

The Artistic Home
Peer Gynt: $19,044 box office, 1,200 people

Chicago Dramatists
A Steady Rain: $21,000 box office,1,500 people at CD, 10,000 at Royal George Theatre
Cadillac: $23,000 box office,1,600 people at CD, 1,500 at Theatre on the Lake

Collaboraction
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, $150,000 box office, 6,500 people

The ComedySportz Theatre
ComedySportz (mainstage show): 200,000 people since 2000

Court Theatre
Caroline, or Change: $284,743 box office (not including subscription income), 12,027 people

The Factory Theater
White Trash Wedding and a Funeral: “several thousand” people

First Folio Theatre
Jeeves Intervenes: 1,850 people

Hobo Junction
Bad Guys in Suits: $5,250 box office, 1,000 people

The Hypocrites
Our Town: $95,000 box office, 5,121 people

Infamous Commonwealth Theatre
The Grapes of Wrath: $10,000 box office, 1,000 people

iO
The Improvised Shakespeare Company

Light Opera Works
The Music Man: 8,000 people

Lookingglass Theatre Company
The Arabian Nights: $782,000 box office, 19,000 people

The Neo-Futurists
Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind: 200,000 people since 2000

New Leaf Theatre
The Man Who Was Thursday: 700 people

Northlight Theatre
Better Late: 19,000 people

Raven Theatre Co.
A Streetcar Named Desire: $35,000 box office, 4,500 people

A Red Orchid Theatre
Mistakes Were Made: $50,000 box office, 2,900 audience

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
The Real Thing: $96,535 (plus subscribers), 4,252 people

Serendipity Theatre Collective
2nd Story 2009 Festival: $14,000 box office, 1,000 people

the side project
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: $7,000 box office, 800 people

Signal Ensemble Theatre
1776: 3,000 people

16th Street Theater
Unveiled:  $12,000 box office, 1,100 people

Steep Theatre
In Arabia We’d All Be Kings: $13,000 box office, 900 people

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
August: Osage County, 11,500 people in Chicago

Teatro Luna
Machos and Jarred (A Hoodoo Comedy)

Theater Oobleck
The Strangerer: $54,000 box office, 5,400 people

Theatre Seven
Diversey Harbor: $18,000 box office, 2,023 people

TimeLine Theatre Company
The History Boys: $361,291 box office,12,374 people

TUTA Theatre Chicago
Uncle Vanya: $30,000 box office, 2,500 people

Victory Gardens Theater
Blackbird: $551,869 box office, 13,500 people

WNEP Theater
Soireé DADA: Schmuckt der Hallen, $8-9,000 box office, 400-450 people

Writers’ Theatre
The Lion in Winter: $521,355 box office, 11,018 people

Tagged:
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  • A Red Orchid
  • Annoyance
  • Chicago Dramatists
  • Collaboraction
  • ComedySportz
  • Court Theatre
  • Factory Theater
  • First Folio
  • Hobo Junction
  • Infamous Commonwealth Theatre
  • iO
  • Light Opera Works
  • Lookingglass
  • Neo-Futurists
  • New Leaf Theatre
  • Northlight
  • Raven Theatre
  • Remy Bumppo
  • Serendipity Theatre Collective
  • Signal Ensemble
  • Steep Theatre
  • Steppenwolf
  • Teatro Luna
  • The Artistic Home
  • The Hypocrites
  • the side project
  • Theater Oobleck
  • Theatre Seven
  • TimeLine Theatre
  • TUTA
  • Victory Gardens
  • WNEP
  • Writers Theatre

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