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The Understudy Coffee and Books

Coming in Summer 2022, The Understudy is a theatre bookstore and specialty coffee shop catering to Chicago’s vibrant theatre community and creative types of all kinds. Owned and operated by two passionate theatre artists, The Understudy is dedicated to fostering discovery, community, and collaboration every day. With over 3000 titles on our shelves and a breadth of coffee knowledge behind our bar, there’s always something worth uncovering at The Understudy.

Toni Stone
Smart People: A Play
Stick Fly
Native Son
Bug: A Play
The Secret in the Wings: A Play
Metamorphoses: A Play
Bobbie Clearly
Mimesophobia
The Javier Plays
Dry Swallow
Octagon
Exit Strategy: A Play
Sender: A Play
Prowess: A Play
Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater
Ensemble-Made Chicago: A Guide to Devised Theater
Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action to the Word
Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago: In Their Own Words
Black Theater Is Black Life: An Oral History of Chicago Theater and Dance, 1970-2010
Makeshift Chicago Stages: A Century of Theater and Performance
Bigger, Brighter, Louder: 150 Years of Chicago Theater as Seen by Chicago Tribune Critics
A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago
Teaching Toward Democracy 2e: Educators as Agents of Change
From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, Second Edition (Revised)
Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools: The Impact of Charters on Public Education
Born Out of Struggle: Critical Race Theory, School Creation, and the Politics of Interruption
Handbook of Social Justice in Education
Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader
Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics
The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics
The Routledge Companion to Theatre of the Oppressed
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
The Color Purple
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Becoming
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Honey Girl (Original)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Parable of the Sower
Kindred (Anniversary)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
Prowess: A Play
The America Play and Other Works
Intimate Apparel/Fabulation
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