‘Little Eyolf’ kicks off Forest Theatre Company’s 2nd full season 

The Forest Theatre Company, which launched in 2021 as Forest Park Theatre to put on an annual outdoor Shakespeare play, is back with its second full indoor season as the only year-round, professional theatre in the near western suburbs. The company s production of “Little Eyolf” kicks off the 2026-2027 season on Nov. 20 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Melrose Park, where the season’s other two shows will also be performed. “Little Eyolf” by Henrik Ibsen is also the first of five Forest Theatre Company plays sponsored by the Norwegian Consulate General in New York. Following the Nov. 21 matinee performance, Richard Corley, producing artistic director of the company, will speak on a panel with Kimberly Kenny, a senior instructional professor at the University of Chicago’s Department of Germanic Studies — one of the scholars who helped connect him with the Consulate. “The main thing she s done is talk to me about the work, about Ibsen himself and where this play lands in the