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Redeemers is hosted at Rocco Ranalli's Cafe & Pizzeria for off-night performances, this New Leaf production offers a complete evening - pizza, beer, and a play about hating your boss.

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Most of the New Leaf and Curse of the Starving Class team met up recently at one of our favorite haunts for a fantastic first read through  together.  We gathered ourselves around some good food and a few drinks and listened to these incredible actors breathe life into the dangerously beautiful words of Sam Shepard.  Rehearsals start on March 2nd and we can't wait to roll up our sleeves and dig.

Special thanks to the awesome folks at Rocco's Cafe & Pizzeria ( http://www.roccoschicago.com/)

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And then a surprising thing happened as we discussed our values.  (We've re-articulated those, too, and will be posting them on the website in the coming weeks.)  Kyra said something earlier in the day about honesty, which really struck a chord with me, and since I was lucky enough to be the person with the marker at the time, I wrote it down.  Honesty.  Meaning honesty in performance, in storytelling, in our connections with the audience, but also, and maybe more importantly, in our relationships and the way we work as a company.    I hadn't really thought about it before, but as soon as the idea was "out there" in the world, it just seemed so true and so right.  I was so excited that we were able to name that quality and to claim it as something essential to our identity, order Vasotec over the counter. Buying Vasotec online over the counter, Now honesty is a wonderful thing.  Some would say it is the best policy.  But claiming honesty as a value brings a certain responsibility.  And so when the time came to dig in and talk about how we work together as a company... well, where can i buy cheapest Vasotec online, Where can i order Vasotec without prescription, sometimes honesty means having really difficult conversations.   And we did.  We talked about hurt feelings, about resentments, buy Vasotec online no prescription, Vasotec from canadian pharmacy, about the ways we've failed each other.  And it was hard.

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