Lookingglass Theatre Company

[1] The company's first production, Through the Lookingglass, was directed by David Kersnar and was produced at the Great Room in Jones Residential College on the Northwestern University campus.

The company has since produced more than 60 world premiere plays, including Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, as well as her adaptations of The Arabian Nights and The Odyssey.

[4] Other productions have included David Schwimmer's adaptations of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Studs Terkel's Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession.

Recent productions include Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, adapted by David Kersnar and Althos Low;[5] Plantation!, a play about reparations, written by Ensemble Member Kevin Douglas and directed by Ensemble Member David Schwimmer;[6] Beyond Caring,[7] created by British author and director Alexander Zeldin.

Lookingglass artists can reconfigure the stage and seating arrangements to meet the design needs for specific productions.

It houses the Lookingglass performance space, lobbies, dressing rooms, and concession areas, as well as a Chicago Public Library.