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Pay No Attention to the Laughter in the Corner
Amanda Frechette joined New Leaf as an Artistic Associate this year – and she’s also the stage management force that keeps shows (and presets) as complex as The Man Who Was Thursday running smooth as butter.
It’s only a day before we open The Man Who Was Thursday and I am sitting at home fully dressed but wearing slippers, fuzzy robe and winter hat. I have been a victim of the common...
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...
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...
Tags: 09-10
keeping secrets – but only until Saturday…
If you’ve been following New Leaf, Nick Keenan, or me on Twitter (and if you’re not – how come?), you’ll have noticed the string of taunting little nuggets that have been leaking out over the past few weeks in regards to our season. As much fun as it is to build suspense – and it is – for me, this has been just as much about not wanting to explode from excited...
Tags: 09-10
Best. Idea. Ever.
I’ll be honest – for me, about 80% of any given general audition is about getting to know the person who’s just walked in the door. Because process is so important to me, because I really do believe that theatre is about bringing out the humanity in one another, because I will have to spend at least six weeks of my life working intimately with the folks that I cast – all these...
