In 2007, Writers Theatre debuted nationally with a New York premiere of Crime and Punishment, adapted by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus.
[1][2] In 2011, Lincoln Center Theater produced another work that began at Writers Theatre: A Minister's Wife, a musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Candida, conceived and directed by Halberstam, with music by Joshua Schmidt, lyrics by Jan Trannen and book by Austin Pendleton.
[3][4][5][6] In November 2013, Writers Theatre announced the launch of the On To a New Stage Campaign, a fundraising campaign with a $34 million capital project goal,[7] which includes a cash reserve, to establish the company's first permanent home in a new theatre center in downtown Glencoe, designed by the award-winning Studio Gang Architects and Jeanne Gang, FAIA, in collaboration with Theatre Consultant Auerbach Pollock Friedlander.
The inaugural production in the new building was Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, which opened in March 2016 to critical acclaim.
[10][11] In 2017, Writers Theatre artistic director Michael Halberstam was accused of sexual harassment on Twitter.