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PRAISE FOR
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
JEFF-RECOMMENDED
"TOP TEN PLAYS OF 2009 ... New Leaf’s new adaptation of G.K. Chesterton’s 1908 satire about a man who finds himself tapped by Scotland Yard to infiltrate a council of anarchists was blessed by playwright Bilal Dardai’s deft touch and the shrewd, apparently endless inventiveness of director Jessica Hutchinson and the company’s resident designers. New Leaf has often found innovative ways of looking at its unique space; here the troupe did it several times in the same night. Add an ensemble equally adroit with the urbane and the farcical, and this theater experience is one we’d like to revisit every day of the week."
- Kris Vire
TimeOut Chicago
"RECOMMENDED ... a whip-smart adaptation ... Jessica Hutchinson's inventive staging and an agile ensemble find the right balance between the ridiculous masquerades of the anarchists (one in full Cyrano regalia) and the chilling realization that, once unmasked by the world, none of us knows what our next step should be."
- Kerry Reid
Chicago Reader
PRAISE FOR
TOUCH
JEFF NON-EQUITY AWARDS 2009
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN - JARED B. MOORE
NOMINATION (SOUND DESIGN) - NICK KEENAN
"one of the North Side's most trustworthy, modest and aesthetically pleasing theater collectives ... Granata handles [his role] with dignity and restraint, and proves a solid anchor for this accomplished, quiet quartet of performances ... New Leaf's artists yet again demonstrate their facility with actors, lights and sound."
- Christopher Piatt
Time Out Chicago
"New Leaf Theatre rises to Press-Coffman's challenge by doing its own smart subversions in its richly emotional and moving staging ... Don't be surprised if they move you to tears."
- Scott C. Morgan
Windy City Times
PRAISE FOR
SIX YEARS
"THEY WUZ ROBBED [of a Jeff nomination because] Frigid, sexless disillusionment reminds us too much of the Bush years. Looks like Marsha Harman and Sean Patrick Fawcett, the miserable married couple in Jessica Hutchinson's lovely little production of Six Years at New Leaf Theatre, picked the wrong season to portray aching ennui so accurately."
- Christopher Piatt
TimeOut Chicago
"CRITIC'S PICK ... beautifully acted ... FOUR STARS ... Hutchinson's small-but-searing production is fittingly claustrophobic; ... Fawcett and Harman throb with tender resentment and quiet desperation."
- Zac Thompson
TimeOut Chicago
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2009 - 2010 SEASON
How do the stories we tell rewrite what we become?
APRIL 15 - MAY 22, 2010
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS
by Sam Shepard
directed by Kyra Lewandowski
Under one splintering roof in the desolation of the California desert, four lone wolves try to pull themselves up by bootstraps that keep breaking, seeking to escape the prisons they've constructed in Sam Shepard's blistering exploration of disease, poverty, and selfishness. Curse of the Starving Class marks Artist-in-Residence Kyra Lewandowski's directorial debut, as she helms this presentation of a script recently revised in honor of the play's 30th anniversary.
EVERY THIRD SATURDAY AT 1 PM
TREEHOUSE READINGS
This year New Leaf is opening up our home and building on our years-long season selection tradition of reading plays that excite us aloud together. Join us as we explore new and classic plays in a friendly open-format reading. Also be sure to subscribe to the Treehouse Readings Podcast, featuring recordings of original work in our unique performance space.
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