The Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance‘s 2024-25 Mainstage Season at the Getz Theatre Center of Columbia College continues with You on the Moors Now, running March 5 through 15 at the Getz Theatre Center’s Sheldon Patinkin Theatre, located at 72 E. 11th St. in Chicago’s South Loop. Student discount tickets are available. The play features an all-student cast and a production team composed of faculty, staff, and students, all under the direction of School of Theatre and Dance faculty member Susan Padveen. For tickets and more information for this LIVE, IN-PERSON production – including a program listing of the show’s cast, crew, and creative team – click here.

Jaclyn Backhaus’ comedy, first produced in 2015, focuses on four 19th-century literary heroines – Pride and Prejudice‘s Elizabeth, Little Women‘s Jo, Wuthering Heights‘ Cathy, and Jane Eyre‘s Jane – who set conventionalism ablaze when they turn down marriage proposals from their equally famous gentlemen callers. What results is a confluence of love, anger, grief, and bloodshed, as the ensemble struggles to reconcile romantic ideologies of the past with their modern ideas of courtship. Everything you’ve learned about love from the writings of Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, and the Bronte sisters is turned upside down in this grand theatrical battle royale.