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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...
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...
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...
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
Rewriting Ourselves
One of the things that became clear at our Brunch Launch this week was that, while our friends and audience clearly love the approach of a season question (yay, score!), it wasn’t yet clear to them exactly how New Leaf chooses each question, each year.
The answer: For us, the season question is always the question of everything. Now.
Last year was a year of new beginnings for us. “How...
