Chicago Stories

CHICAGO STORIES

Join Victory Gardens Theater for cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, irresistible auctions, and a delectable dinner, followed by three one-act plays from three Chicagoans as iconic as the skyline itself.

Celebrate the city's preeminent presenter of world premieres at the Eighteenth Annual Chicago Stories Benefit!

Chicago Stories 2008
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 6pm
at the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago 

 Chicago Stories 2008's Celebrity Playwrights include:

Stuart Dybek
Author (Coast of Chicago, I Sailed With Magellan) and 2007 MacArthur "Genius" Grantee

Allen Turner
Partner, The Pritzker Organization; Chairman of the Board of Columbia College; and VGT's First Board President

And one more celebrity playwright to be announced!

Make your reservations now!

Exclusive Naming Sponsorship..........$25,000 for two tables of 10
Plus exclusive naming credit for the entire evening

Premiere Level Sponsorship..........$15,000 for a table of 10
Playwrights' benefits plus sponsor credit, premiere seating, unique access to VGT and more!

Playwrights' Level Sponsorship..........$10,000 for a table of 10
Directors' benefits plus prime seating, announcement from stage and ad in event program

Directors' Circle Table..........$7,500 for a table of 10
Designers' benefits plus preferred seating and sponsor credit in event program

Designers' Circle Table..........$5,000 for a table of 10
Benefactor benefits plus listing in The Victory News and opportunity to host VGT artist

Benefactor Table..........$3,000 for a table of 10
Listing in VGT Playbill and Chicago Stories program

Single Tickets..........$300
Listing in VGT Playbill and Chicago Stories program

For tickets or more information, please contact Kate Oczkowski, Director of Events and Individual Giving, at 773.549.5788 ext. 2140 or koczkowski@victorygardens.org.

430 guests, four new playwrights and one big success!
Chicago Stories 2007 raises over $220,000

Victory Gardens Theater has a lot to celebrate last year, so what better occasion than to raise a glass to the past season than at the 17th annual Chicago Stories Benefit! Guests filled the elegant Four Seasons Hotel on Friday, May 4, 2007 for a memorable evening in honor of VGT's Tony Award-honored mission of developing and producing new plays.

Guests browsed through 150 irresisitble Silent Auction packages and raised their paddles during the exciting Live Auction. And one lucky raffle winner went home with an exquisite diamond necklace, designed and donated by Edward Ford Jewelers. The centerpiece of the evening was the World Premiere performances of this year's three "celebrity" 10-minute plays.

VGT owes a debt of gratitude to Chicago Stories 2007's talented playwrights: 
 

Richard Christiansen
Former chief critic and senior writer for the Chicago Tribune

Bill Zwecker
Chicago Sun-Times columnist and entertainment reporter and film critic for CBS 2

Lisa Madigan and Pat Byrnes
Illinois Attorney General (Madigan) and New Yorker cartoonist (Byrnes)

Special recognition also goes to:

Exelon, Proud Parent of ComEd
Silent Auction Sponsor

ITW - Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Cocktail Hour Sponsor

LaSalle Bank
Dinner Sponsor

USG
World Premiere Play Sponsor