Roe v. Wade, the iconic court case that rocked America in 1973. The debate that still divides American citizens today. Roe, a tantalizing new drama comes to the Goodman Theatre this season as playwright Lisa Loomer dives behind two of the women behind the landmark lawsuit, and changed America forever.

The Goodman brings its 2019/20 season to a rousing close with the ferociously funny winner of the 2018 Lortel Award for Best Play - School Girls or The African Mean Girls Play, fresh from its critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run. Written by emerging Ghanaian-American, New York-based playwright and performer Jocelyn Bioh, the production is praised for its artful collision of American and African culture, which surprisingly fuses the spirit of Heathers, Mean Girls and Jawbreakers with the world of Bioh's parents - Ghana in the late 60s.

A vibrant music-infused production debuts at the Goodman Theatre this season. Tasked with the care of her ailing mother Lucha longs to escape her 1970's life. When a long-forgotten record re-ignites her mother's memory Lucha and her cousin set on a quest to do the unthinkable... form the first all-female Mariachi band!

S.E Hilton's iconic novel comes to life on stage in 2020 as the Goodman Theater presents the world premiere of The Outsiders. Based on Hilton's 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola's era-defining motion picture The Outsiders follows a gang of young greasers as they cling onto survival. With music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival and a book by the award-winning Adam Rapp The Outsiders will be directed by Liesl Tommy.