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The Treehouse Bears Fruit
It gives me enormous pleasure to see BURYING MISS AMERICA opening this week as the first production of our 2011-2012 Season. Not only is this a beautiful new play by an exciting Chicago artist and wonderful friend of New Leaf, but it is also the culmination of our first revamped Treehouse play development process. This play has journeyed through its initial workshopping to last season’s Treehouse...
Treehouse Reading – How We Got On
The final play in our Spring 2011 Treehouse Reading Series is How We Got On by Idris Goodwin. Click on the player below to hear the entire recording, or subscribe to our podcast on iTunes.
Synopsis
A classic American coming-of-age tale with a unique hip-hop treatment: domestic suburban life remixed. The Selector, our DJ/Narrator, samples and loops us through the lives of three Midwestern teen...
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Treehouse Reading – Dandelion Momma
Next up in our Spring 2011 Treehouse Reading Series is Dandelion Momma by Greg Romero. Click on the player below to hear the entire recording, or subscribe to our podcast on iTunes.
Synopsis
A 100-year old woman reflects on her life through broken pieces of memory. An eight-year old girl takes care of wayward dandelions and sees the lights inside of people. A farm girl and a writer search for...
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Treehouse Reading – Burying Miss America
We're pleased to present recordings of our Spring 2011 Treehouse Reading Series - three very special plays currently in development that we've selected from dozens of plays submitted that address our theme of "Home."
The first of the three readings is Burying Miss America by Chicago playwright Brian Golden of Theatre Seven. Click on the player below to hear the entire recording, or subscribe to...
Where the Heart Is
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On Monday, February 21st, we hosted a salon at Black Rock for our friends at The Plagarists. We decided to use our time to look at the idea of home that's been driving our Treehouse Readings series and our thoughts this winter-into-spring, and we wanted our audience to come with us down that road.
Stories...
