Nick Keenan gets a nod
New City listed company member Nick Keenan as one of the 50 people who perform for Chicago Theatre. We couldn't agree more. "Nick Keenan’s the kind of guy you can’t wait to see a few years down the road. You know he is going to be doing something stellar because he is already one of the most exciting artists in town. The young designer’s resume has blown up to include many of Chicago’s major theaters, and he is is a thinker to boot. Follow his musings on web technology, theater infrastructure and community building on his blog theaterforthefuture.com." Check out ...
A New Funding Model for New Leaf
So, it's official: New Leaf has a track record of putting up some of the best productions in Chicago with one of the smallest operating budgets in the city. After closing the books on The Man Who Was Thursday, we find ourselves with more pleasant surprises - our ticket sales and two comparatively modest but vital grants have paid the entire production budget for our spring production of Curse of the Starving Class, and go a long way towards funding the first production of the 2010-2011 season. If you have followed the national conversation on theater funding in the last ...
Treehouse Podcast: Brutal Selfish Rattlesnake
Did you miss our second Treehouse reading of BRUTAL SELFISH RATTLESNAKE, Aaron Weissman's beautifully savage western musical? Well now you didn't. You can download the full length play on our podcast. Our next Treehouse is this Saturday at 1 pm at 2045 N. Lincoln Park West: Leocadia, directed by Jack Tamburri of the Plagiarists. As Leocadia is being licensed for this one-day performance, the only way to catch that reading will be in person... Unless you know a couple generous donors who can help us raise $150 to pay for podcasting rights for the performance (it's tax deductible!). ...
Stretching during the Home Stretch
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="382" caption="Jess & Bilal before our first-ever New Leaf talk-back on November 5th"][/caption] Wow. Just - wow. It's the Wednesday before our penultimate weekend of The Man Who Was Thursday and "wow" is about all the articulateness I can muster. I've gotten TWO e-mails today from Marni, our intrepid box office manager, with updates about our rapidly dwindling ticket availability for this weekend. UPDATE - I just got a third e-mail from Marni. We're sold out. For the run. You can e-mail her at tickets@newleaftheatre.org to get put on the wait list for any evening. Wow. We've upped the number of folks ...
Nick Keenan gets a nod
// Jan 13th, 2010
New City listed company member Nick Keenan as one of the 50 people who perform for Chicago Theatre. We couldn’t agree more.
A New Funding Model for New Leaf
// Dec 19th, 2009
So, it’s official: New Leaf has a track record of putting up some of the best productions in Chicago with one of the smallest operating budgets in the city.
And now we have a way to do it for a long time.
Treehouse Podcast: Brutal Selfish Rattlesnake
// Nov 19th, 2009
Did you miss our second Treehouse reading of BRUTAL SELFISH RATTLESNAKE, Aaron Weissman’s beautifully savage western musical? Well now you didn’t.
Stretching during the Home Stretch
// Nov 11th, 2009
Wow. Just – wow.
It’s the Wednesday before our penultimate weekend of The Man Who Was Thursday. And it’s doing well. Crazy well. I’m proud of my company, this play, this production – and I’m also excited that it’s giving us a momentum-based push in the direction of thinking about things in the long term.
