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Join New Leaf at Theatre Seven of Chicago this Saturday
We are lucky to live in a community where we’re friends with some really exciting artists – and where our friends support our work AND make theatre we’re excited to see. During Curse of the Starving Class, the cool kids from Theatre Seven of Chicago came and had a playdate with us. Many of them saw the show, and then we headed to our favorite post-show hangout for get-to-know-you-better...
New Adventures – our partnership with Neighborhood Nutrition Centers
Fresh, real food is missing from many neighborhoods in Chicago. What can we do to change that?
Last fall and into the winter, we started to think about our company and ourselves as members of the larger community. In this thinking, it became clear that we were interested in broadening and deepening our civic engagement, how we as a company interact with the world outside the walls of the LPCC. We...
from the Emerging Theatre Award finalists
Hi Chicago!
Our five companies – Caffeine, Dog & Pony, New Leaf, Steep, and Theatre Seven of Chicago – are so collectively thrilled to be considered for this year’s Broadway in Chicago Emerging Theatre Award. It truly is an honor to be nominated, and we’re sending out this message because we are just so pleased – all of us – to be in the company of so many...
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...
Stretching during the Home Stretch
Jess & Bilal before our first-ever New Leaf talk-back on November 5th
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...
