The post Stonewall riot era has seen a rise in the theatrical movements- showcasing the gay and lesbian ways of experiencing life, increasing integrity among the LGBT people themselves and at the same time creating an awareness among the straights about the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender) community.

Theater Companies

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About Face Theater is a theatrical company, based in Chicago. They produce theaters and dramas based on the issues of LGBT. The main aim is to reach out to these groups who find it hard to lead a normal life- mostly an object of ridicule for the straights. The plays of About Face Theater promote the interests of the members of LGBT community.

About Face Theater provides a good interaction platform for the youths from LGBT. The gays and the lesbians, who may be otherwise ridiculed, find solace in each other's company at About Face Theater. They take initiatives to reach out to those countless youths who are otherwise left homeless or are subject to sexual discrimination on account of being a LGBT. They also take up issues like HIV and try to create awareness and spread the awareness through their plays.

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- It is important that the actors of About Face Theater are gays or lesbians. This is so, because only then they can feel the pangs of what the real world is like and therefore can easily relate to their audience. On a similar note, the audience can easily relate to these actors.

- About Face Theater conducts internships and yearlong workshops for its members. Gays and lesbians in Chicago indeed have a platform- a medium to voice their concerns and also to keep them busy the year round.

What is so special about Face Theater?

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About Face Youth Theater is a theatrical production company based in Chicago. The theater is committed to the production of performances geared at promoting lesbian, gay and bisexual communities. The About Face Theater Mainstage Season produces plays acclaimed by the Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT).

The other programs in the theater are by The New Works Program, which covers similar themes in an experimental angle. The educational programs are geared at the youth in outreach and performance programs that include groups touring the Illinois schools.

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The Youth Theater also features plays and performances by renowned artists from all over the world. Some of the plays conducted at the theater are of real experiences of the lives of the youth.

About Face Youth Theater was recognized as a fight against human rights initiative, where it received the Human Rights Campaign's Community Equality Award helping the Gay and Lesbian Community and in 2009, it received a MAC grant to enable it to expand its programs countrywide.

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When traveling to visit the about Face Youth Theater you can find a hotel in Chicago to stay in that offer great accommodation.

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The About Face Theater happens to be a company which is based in Chicago city. It is also an outreach group which focuses on the discovery of the norms as well as identity of gender, an understanding of GLBT or Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender and it also promotes the concepts of inclusion as well as diversity in the society.

1. What kind of plays does the About Face Theater produce?

By the Mainstage Season of About Face Theater is production of some highly acclaimed plays pertaining to the interests of Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender or GLBT. While, New Works Program deals with related themes but with an untried angle. The theatre's Educational Programs are in fact one multi-tiered endeavor geared towards youth outreach as well as performance. It includes the touring groups that go to visit the schools in Illinois.

2. For a Chicago hotel package few hotels in the proximity of the About Face Theater are

Days Inn Chicago

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This hotel in Chicago offers a very good package called "Kids Nature Package".

House 5863

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This is a bed and breakfast type of accommodation.

The Willows Hotel

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Old Chicago Inn

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This charming lakehouse is offers a bed and breakfast style accommodation.

Best Western Hawthorne Terrace Hotel

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They provide 4 different packages which are all inclusive.

City Suites Hotel

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Their package consists of apartments or suites which are fully furnished and cost as much as 50% less than the Chicago hotel rooms.

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