Author Archive
New Leaf Turns 9
New Leaf celebrated its ninth year of operations on Friday, April 23rd with our artistic family – old and new.
Pictures say it all. It snuck up on us, but we hadn’t just been building a number of great ensembles over the years at New Leaf – we built one big one.
Thanks to Austin Oie (The Man Who Was Thursday) for capturing the event for us.
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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...
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,...
November 21st Treehouse: Leocadia, or Time Remembered
Ahh, Saturday afternoon. You know what that means: It’s almost Treehouse time. On November 21st, New Leaf welcomes another host of artists – and you – to our space to explore another play together, in the delightfully crisp post-brunch hours.
LEOCADIA (OR TIME REMEMBERED)
by Jean Anouilh
adapted by Patricia Moyes
directed by Jack Tamburri of the Plagiarists
November 21st at 1 pm
Lincoln...
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...
