of Café Voltaire, a now defunct vegetarian restaurant in Lakeview. Co-founder Sean Graney has been the artistic director since early 2015, when he announced his return from a three-year hiatus. The company's name is inspired by Eugène Ionesco’s Notes and Counter Notes, a compendium of interviews on the nature of theatre throughout which Ionesco regularly contradicts himself — hence its title, and The Hypocrites' name. Production history Season 1 The Bald Soprano Woyzeck Endgame Action Season 2 Edmond The Danube The Firebugs The Future is in Eggs Marat/Sade Season 3 Curse of the Starving Class Jack, or the Submission & The Future is in Eggs The Cherry Orchard Season 4 Lakeboat Ajax The Curious Sofa Arcadia Season 5 Blood Wedding Rhinoceros Leviticus 18 Henry 5 Season 6 Machinal Happy Days Balm in Gilead Edward Gorey’s Dispirited Diversion for Christmas Season 7 Camille/La Traviata Leonce & Lena The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide Season 8 Equus The Christmas Carol – A Radio Broadcast The Glass Menagerie True West Season 9 Death of a Salesman 4.48 Psychosis Angels in America, Part I – Millennium Approaches Angels in America, Part II – Perestroika Season 10 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Mud The Bald Soprano Season 11 Desire Under the Elms Miss Julie Our Town Season 12 The Threepenny Opera Our Town Remounted The Hairy Ape Oedipus Season 13 Frankenstein Cabaret No Exit Season 14 K. Pirates of Penzance Woyzeck Season 15 Sophocles: Seven Sicknesses Pirates of Penzance (Remount) Six Characters in Search of an Author Romeo Juliet Season 16 The Fall of the House of Usher Gilbert & Sullivan Repertory Coriolanus Ivywild: The True Tall Tales of Bathhouse John Season 17 12 Nights The Mikado at Steppenwolf Garage The Tennessee Williams Project Into the Woods at Mercury Theatre Chicago Season 18 All Our Tragic Gilbert and Sullivan Rep: Mikado, Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore Endgame Three Sisters Season 19 American Idiot The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide The Ruffians' Burning Bluebeard The Glass Menagerie Adding Machine: The Musical Johanna Faustus Season 20 You on the Moors Now Cinderella at the Theater for Potatoes Wit The House of Martin Guerre Las Meninas References External links The Hypocrites Website Theatre companies in Chicago Arts organizations established in 1997