Act Well Your Part, Designing for Hull-House

Join Hour Studio for a conversation and celebration of Hull-House Theatre and graphic design.

In conversation with staff at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and the audience, designers Tobey Albright and Mollie Edgar will reflect on the work of reimagining over a century of design for performance at the country’s most influential social settlement, engaging design as a mode of reproducing history in the present.

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“Act Well Your Part” is an exhibition and festival hosted at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum celebrating the legacies of Hull-House Theatre and building a future of civically engaged theater in Chicago. A theatrical hub for the city of Chicago for over a century, Hull-House played a pivotal role in the development of community theater, the Little Theatre movement, improv and Chicago’s iconic nonprofit theater scene. Taking its name from the epigraph emblazoned above the original Hull-House stage, “Act Well Your Part, There All the Honor Lies” reframes contemporary Chicago theater as an essential part of the city’s civic fabric.