Aug 26
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Freshen Up?

Don’t forget to join New Leaf tomorrow, Wednesday August 27th.
I’m our production manager, so I’m just going to leave you with the bullet points:
Holiday Club: 4000 N. Sheridan Road. 7 PM.
You can win that iPod Touch you’ve been salivating over, and lots of other great prizes.
Two Included Drinks and Food for $30 at […]

Author: Nick
Jun 16
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New Leaf in the Neighborhood

About a month ago I issued a challenge to three of New Leaf’s playwright friends: Given identical lists of some of the features of Chicago’s Mid-North Neighborhood, create a ten-minute play using anything on the page as an inspiration, starting point, setting, character - anything - but you have to somehow incorporate something about the neighborhood […]

Author: Jessica
May 13
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Casting our nets wide… (revisited)

Yesterday I posted the lamest blog entry ever. I will admit that I just did a quick “cut & paste” from our entry on ChicagoPlays.
So I wanted to take a sec and elaborate a bit on this announcement of our season auditions. We’re not quite ready to announce our plays for next year, but I can […]

Author: Jessica
Mar 25
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The Narrative

It’s always a shock to the system when you live through the same events as someone else and as you look back, they somehow have a completely different experience than your own.
Reading reviews and getting honest feedback from an audience is always fraught with difficulty because of this phenomenon, and many performers frankly avoid going […]

Author: Nick
Feb 08
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Sigh… Relief.

This morning my cell phone rang and my stomach dropped the way it has learned to do in the past month when I see a number I recognize as belonging to the Park District.  We’ve been further embroiled in the contract battle this week - remember when we were so jubilant that we were going […]

Author: Jessica