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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...
Treehouse Reading – today! WALL OF WATER by Sherry Kramer
We’ve got a full day at the Leaf today, kids. First, it’s time to stumble through THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY and see what we have wrought. And then – and THEN! It’s time for our first-ever Treehouse Reading – and the play’s an old favorite of ours – Sherry Kramer’s THE WALL OF WATER. Kyra’s directing, and we have an excellent cast. An EXCELLENT...
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These are the jokes, folks…
image by w.johnson
“Always be comic in tragedy I say. Find the comedy in tragedy and there you shall find the truth.” – The Man Who Was Thursday
It’s been a good stretch since I’ve worked on a comedy. There have been comic elements in my projects of late, but in The Man Who Was Thursday, I have a chance to jump inside a real farce. The comedy in this play is so multi-faceted: from witty...
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How do the stories we tell rewrite what we become?
That is the question guiding our 2009-2010 season, the one we’re launching at our home in the Lincoln Park Cultural Center right now!
Last season, as you know, we asked “How do we build a future from a present we didn’t expect?” Continuing our commitment to unify our seasons around a single question, this year we’ll examine “How do the stories we tell rewrite...
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