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Remember, Remember the 5th of November
This Thursday Nov. 5th (Guy Fawkes Day, naturally) is chock full of New Leaf events. We hope you can join us for one or all of them! I know Artistic Director Jess Hutchinson would love some companions as her evening will require some temporal engineering so that she can make all three presentations.
NOVEMBER 5TH
6:30 PM – New Leaf Reading of John Steinhagen’s The Mailman Knows Who Shovels...
Halloween with New Leaf: Everyone goes as an Anarchist
I’ve been told they blend in because they look like everyone else.
We couldn’t be more pleased with Artistic Associate Rachel Sypniewski’s incredible costume design for THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY – and we thought you might want to join in the fun.
This halloween, New Leaf is offering a $5 discount if you join us for our October 31st show… and if you come dressed as one...
Opening Night – A Goon’s Eye View
An opening warning to all readers:
I heart New Leaf Theatre. They simply rock socks and I’m thrilled to be a part of their process. To avoid this post becoming an all-out unadulterated love-fest to the Leaf, I will make an effort to provide a tempered behind the scenes look at the experience of bringing Bilal Dardai’s adaptation of G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday to...
Tags: Thursday
Pay No Attention to the Laughter in the Corner
Amanda Frechette joined New Leaf as an Artistic Associate this year – and she’s also the stage management force that keeps shows (and presets) as complex as The Man Who Was Thursday running smooth as butter.
It’s only a day before we open The Man Who Was Thursday and I am sitting at home fully dressed but wearing slippers, fuzzy robe and winter hat. I have been a victim of the common...
re-writing Chesterton – thoughts from our dramaturg
G.K. Chesterton
New Leaf posed How do the stories we tell rewrite what we become? as its season question. The first play of the season is adapted from the G.K. Chesterton’s novel, The Man Who Was Thursday. This begs the question: how did Chesterton hope to rewrite the world with his novel, and how does the company hope to rewrite Chesterton in this production?
Considering Chesterton has an entry...
Tags: Thursday
