Performances

Don’t miss the Chicago Public Library’s upcoming Teen Volume Reader’s Theatre Troupe performances!

WHAT IS READER’S THEATRE?

• Dramatic readings from excerpts of Teen Volume books
• Free performances by teens for teen

Adaptations performed from the following works:

13 Little Blue Envelopes
Written by Maureen Johnson
Published by HarperCollins
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to Alloy Entertainment.

The Beckoners
Written by Carrie Mac
Published by Orca Books
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the publisher.

Blue Bloods
Written by Melisa de la Cruz
Published by Hyperion
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the author.

Fly on the Wall
Written by E. Lockhart
Published by Delacorte
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the author.

Godless
Written by Pete Hautman
Published by Simon Pulse
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the author.

How to Be Popular
Written by Meg Cabot
Published by HarperTempest
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the author.

Luna
Written by Julie Anne Peters
Published by Little, Brown
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the author.

Nothing But the Truth (And a Few White Lies)
Written by Justina Chen Headley
Published by Little, Brown
Performed in with permission from and in gratitude to the author.

Played
Written by Dana Davidson
Published by Jump at the Sun
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the author.

Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood
Written by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Published by Cinco Puntos Press
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the publisher.

The Sledding Hill
Written by Chris Crutcher
Published by HarperTeen
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the author.

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Written by Chris Crutcher
Published by HarperTempest
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the author.

Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Art
“Floater”
Story written by Ellen Wittlinger
Drawings by Scott Hunt
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the author.

Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
Written by Adam Rapp
Published by Candlewick
Performed with permission from and in gratitude to the author. 

More Performance Information:

• We’re taking the words off the page and making them real! 

• Reader’s Theatre scripts are excerpted from various young adult books that are in the Library’s Teen Volume collections and book discussion programs.

• When the adaptations for Reader’s Theater scripts are drafted, they must then be sent to the publishers for permission to perform the scripts.  In order to respect the author’s and publisher’s requests, we have stayed as close to their original text as possible.

• A script is not intended to represent the whole of a book, and even those that have multiple scenes still manage to leave much of the story untold.  One of the goals of the Reader’s Theater project is to entice teens to read the titles independently, so many attention-grabbing scenes have been adapted for the performances. 

• Reader’s Theatre performances are made possible through a grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation through the Chicago Public Library Foundation. 

• For more information, please contact the Department of Children and Young Adult Services at (312) 747-4780.