Wheels in Motion.
" The wheels are in motion. There's nothing you can do to turn it back. The only thing you can do is cooperate. To play ball. To become part of us." - Taylor 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 ...
Nick Keenan gets a nod
New City listed company member Nick Keenan as one of the 50 people who perform for Chicago Theatre. We couldn't agree more. "Nick Keenan’s the kind of guy you can’t wait to see a few years down the road. You know he is going to be doing something stellar because he is already one of the most exciting artists in town. The young designer’s resume has blown up to include many of Chicago’s major theaters, and he is is a thinker to boot. Follow his musings on web technology, theater infrastructure and community building on his blog theaterforthefuture.com." Check out ...
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 Curse of the Starving Class, and go a long way towards funding the first production of the 2010-2011 season. If you have followed the national conversation on theater funding in the last ...
Treehouse Podcast: Brutal Selfish Rattlesnake
Did you miss our second Treehouse reading of BRUTAL SELFISH RATTLESNAKE, Aaron Weissman's beautifully savage western musical? Well now you didn't. You can download the full length play on our podcast. Our next Treehouse is this Saturday at 1 pm at 2045 N. Lincoln Park West: Leocadia, directed by Jack Tamburri of the Plagiarists. As Leocadia is being licensed for this one-day performance, the only way to catch that reading will be in person... Unless you know a couple generous donors who can help us raise $150 to pay for podcasting rights for the performance (it's tax deductible!). ...
Lemonade
// Jan 15th, 2008
See, it’s not just Jess on Ye Newe Leafe Blog.
One thing I love about New Leaf is our ability to take advantage of adverse circumstances. It was fun to rally together our wonderful guest artists this evening with an impromptu night out – our sensitively Zen director Greg Peters, our flight-control-ready stage manager Casey [...]
The best laid plans…
// Jan 14th, 2008 Tonight was the first rehearsal of Girl in the Goldfish Bowl. We’ve assembled an amazing production team, a stellar cast, and the script is just fantastic. I love this play. I’m excited that we’re going to bring it to life. I’ve been really looking forward to this evening’s rehearsal.
And then we were told that we [...]
Agents of Change
// Jan 11th, 2008 If you’re not reading Theater for the Future, well, you should be. Not only am I proud to call Nick Keenan who writes it a brilliant sound architect, master of technology, inspirational collaborator, and New Leaf company member, I’m perhaps most proud to call him urban family. I can also, I think, call him a visionary [...]
New Year, New Leaf
// Jan 6th, 2008 Hello and Happy New Year! All of us at New Leaf hope you had a happy and healthy holiday season. What with all the feelings of renewal, new beginnings, and a reawakened sense of possibility, it seems to us that New Year’s is a very New Leaf holiday. Some day we’ll have a great big [...]
Some thoughts about our season…
// Nov 30th, 2007 Welcome to the New Leaf Theatre blog! I’m glad you’re here. This is a place where we’ll keep you up to date on what we’re thinking about and how things are going – and I’ll hope you’ll keep us up to date on your thoughts as well.
The following was printed in the program for The [...]
