Join New Leaf at Theatre Seven of Chicago this Saturday
We are lucky to live in a community where we're friends with some really exciting artists - and where our friends support our work AND make theatre we're excited to see. During Curse of the Starving Class, the cool kids from Theatre Seven of Chicago came and had a playdate with us. Many of them saw the show, and then we headed to our favorite post-show hangout for get-to-know-you-better beers. Not only were we thankful for T7's support in the house that night, but it was such a blast to get to spend some time with a company I've ...
New Leaf Turns 9
New Leaf celebrated its ninth year of operations on Friday, April 23rd with our artistic family - old and new. Pictures say it all. It snuck up on us, but we hadn't just been building a number of great ensembles over the years at New Leaf - we built one big one. Thanks to Austin Oie (The Man Who Was Thursday) for capturing the event for us. [nggallery id=4]
New Adventures – our partnership with Neighborhood Nutrition Centers
[caption id="attachment_457" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Fresh, real food is missing from many neighborhoods in Chicago. What can we do to change that?"][/caption] 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 want to continue our focus on renewal, and of course keep our work tied to the work on our stage. So a ...
from the Emerging Theatre Award finalists
Hi Chicago! Our five companies - Caffeine, Dog & Pony, New Leaf, Steep, and Theatre Seven of Chicago - are so collectively thrilled to be considered for this year's Broadway in Chicago Emerging Theatre Award. It truly is an honor to be nominated, and we're sending out this message because we are just so pleased - all of us - to be in the company of so many committed, visionary, talented artists within our broad community and within these five companies specifically. We know each other, respect one another's work, see each other's shows ...
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 ...
Memory Lapses
// Jan 24th, 2008
I have no memory for names. I used to, and oddly I can recall names — some of them anyway — that were stored before September of 2000. Nothing particularly magical happened in September of 2000. I did start college, but my lifestyle did not change significantly in terms of the intake of potential memory-washing [...]
Fallibility of Memory
// Jan 19th, 2008 I was taking the bus downtown to the Harold Washington library today and started to think about the unreliable nature of memory – something that felt appropriate to talk about here at the midpoint of our season exploring family through that at once specific and amorphous lens.
On the #29, going past the Renaissance Hotel, I [...]
Saved by the Theater you don’t expect
// Jan 17th, 2008 I visited Bev a few days ago, for the first time since right after the accident.
Bev Longo had been our stage manager at New Leaf for our production of Accelerando two seasons ago. Bev is an accomplished MFA director who had worked as an assistant with Lookingglass, taught for years, but was having difficulty [...]
Baby Steps
// Jan 16th, 2008 Quick update:
GOOD NEWS: Yesterday, at about 3 PM, I traipsed over to the Main Office of the Chicago Park District and signed two copies of the New Leaf Theatre contract.
BAD NEWS: The contract now has to make the rounds and be signed by 4 to 6 other people BEFORE it’s signed by the Superintendent of [...]
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 [...]
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