View from the Owen Theatre stage looking out at the audience

OWEN THEATRE

A 350-seat courtyard-style performance space (with flexibility to seat up to 468), the Owen Bruner Goodman Theatre—with a stage that can be configured as a thrust, end stage, runway or in-the-round arena—offers an intimate theater-going experience. The birthplace of dozens of new American plays, including Lynn Nottage’s Pulizer Prize-winning Ruined, and home to the annual New Stages Festival of new work, “the Owen” has hosted artists of note including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Hardy, Kristofer Diaz, Tanya Saracho, Horton Foote and more.

The theater is named in honor of the grandfather of playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, for whom Goodman Theatre is named.

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Theatre RENTAL OPTIONS

In the Owen THEATRE

Primary Trust

By Eboni Booth
Directed by Malkia Stampley

October 5 – November 3, 2024

An “utterly absorbing, very funny, darn near perfect play” (The Daily Beast) about leaving your comfort zone to find fulfillment.

A jewel-encrusted crown adorns a skull sitting on a table littered with red Solo cups and barbecued meats.

Fat Ham

By James Ijames
Directed by Tyrone Phillips

January 11 – February 23, 2025

A boisterous Southern cookout sets the scene for a Black, queer discovery of self and resilience in this Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time Tony nominated “uproarious reimagining of Hamlet” (The New Yorker).

A co-production with Definition Theatre

Fat Ham is presented in the Owen Theatre

The Antiquities

By Jordan Harrison
Co-directed by David Cromer and Caitlin Sullivan

May 3 – June 1, 2025

A play for anyone whose computer has asked them to prove that they’re a human. Which is to say, everyone.