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Rehearsal Report, Days 2-4
(Learn more about Ajax in Iraq )by August SchulenburgThe first days of a rehearsal are like the first years of life: a great deal is lear...
Mothers’ Day at CLTC!
Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers, Stepmothers, Grandmas and Anyone Else being celebrated this Mothers’ Day!
We here at City Lights love ...
Bird House
Our next two Retreat and Festival plays may sound familiar to Native Voices patrons. Playwright Diane Glancy is a long- time friend of Na...
Mo`olelo Board issues a Challenge!
Dear Friends:
Thank you for all you have done to build Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company! We are now in our seventh year of operations, co...
Daisy Bracelet
$16.00This precious bracelet is a simple silver chain decked out with three asymmetrical green and turquoise beads and a dangling blue da...
The Funding Conundrum: A Marketer's Response
Nothing can take the wind out of your sails and make one reassess current strategies quite like an unexpected and critical loss of fundin...
The Justice Cycle in TheatreForum
Cornerstone's four-year Justice Cycle (2007-2010) is currently featured in international theatre journal TheatreForum issue number 38 wit...
Flickr photos from Chad Bauman
Arena Stage posted a photo:
Jeff Allin as Peter and James McMenamin as Jerry in the Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Thea...
Rereading THIS: An open letter to the cast
We’re about to plunge into tech. Our rehearsal process has been a touch fitful, with snowstorms, commercials, work schedules, etc. and I...
Sounds Like a Page-Turner to Us
Behold, the 2010 winning entry in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, given each year to the worst opening sentence:
For the first month o...
Andrew Hobgood on Facebook
Viaduct is going to be the place to be this summer when That Sordid Little Story **WORLD PREMIERE** and (a)Symmetry Cycle take over! Both...
12 Tage mit Print und Blog
Ein Rückblick auf zwei Wochen FORUM JUNGER THEATERKRITIKER, den Workshop für junge Kulturjournalisten während der Biennale NEUE STÜCKE AU...
Lara Goetsch on Facebook
We're officially throwing our hat in the ring to try to win $20,000 via Chase Community Giving! Support TimeLine's award-winning producti...
“George Washington’s Fortune”
George Washington, as a nineteen year-old surveyor. (Wax model at Mount Vernon, Virginia)
A selection from “George Washington’s Fortune...
Weekly Round-Up
Here’s everything this week on LA Stage–
Monday
Lin-Manuel Miranda, writer and star of the 2008 Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights...
The Kowalskis’ Streetcar
Actors and spouses Stacy Stoltz and Matt Hawkins, who play Stella and Stanley Kowalski in Writers’ Theatre’s A Streetcar Named Desire, gi...
Jonathan Josephson on Facebook
Check out the photos below from the Walking with Dinosaurs Baby-T appearances! Both promotions were fit with prize giveaways, Dino Dolla...
Eleanor Berman on Facebook
The STREETCAR pop up performance from the TCG Conference is now on YouTube. Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/writerstheatreYouTube ...
Fernando Jones' Blues Camp
Blues musician Fernando Jones, a Columbia College adjunct music faculty member, talks about his work in promoting and preserving the Blue...
Amanda Farrar on Facebook
moved! Thank you to our amazing Monkey helpers Chris Mathews and Tom Malinowski, life-saver Gretchen Helmreich, not to mention the outsta...
Tulsa Gets Talent
The Talent Dividend is being embraced by local and state-wide leadership in Tulsa, OK, as evidenced by the participation of Kathy Taylor,...
2010 – 2011 Season Announcement
THE TEMPEST
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Rob Melrose
November 5 – 28, 2010
Press Opening: November 11
Gala Opening: November 12
Cut...
Demand vs. Loyalty – No Contest
Based on the reports of my TRG colleagues, our recent blog posting on Demand Based Pricing prompted questions and conversations at recent...
Shakespeare’s Archetypes
Costume drawings from a production of The Comedy of Errors staged by prisoners
in the German POW camp at Eichstätt, 1944
Like most c...
Bang! Boom! Bang!
The Fourth of July will be here in five days. That means it's time time for fireworks to start erupting prematurely. I imagine this conv...
Following the Trail
As some of you may know, our next full-length show is by me. It's the first full length play I've written since Halcyon was founded. I...
What Would The Grateful Dead Do?
Photo by noquarter — Some Rights Reserved
If only more artists were fans of The Grateful Dead.
Of course, it might be hard to imagine n...
Josh Weinstein on Facebook
$20K would go a long way to support the art and artists at LiveWire Chicago. It's that simple. Take a moment and vote!Chase Community Giv...
Jean Bruce Scott on Facebook
Check out our blog for ticket specials! Our festival ends this weekend in LA! You won't wanna miss it!Native Voices @ the Autry: And the ...
Henry IV, part 1
Looks like it might be a good summer for plays with Henry in the title at Shakespeare’s Globe. Hard on the heels of a powerful Henry VIII...
Sam Harris aims for Jolson & ‘Reclamation’
First, two issues that need addressing:
– Why isn’t Sam Harris performing his new gay marriage anthem “My Reclamation” at San Franc...
Summer's Here and the Time is Right...
For talking about next season!
Yes, we’ll be closing the books on our 2009-2010 season as of June 30, so we really sho...
Few and far between
Over the summer months, I'll be blogging less often, with long stretches in between. Lots of reconstruction and reframing to do for the M...
Brain People (Fall Shows)
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Temporary Audiences
A couple of weeks ago, TRG Arts unveiled the latest addition to our Data Lab arsenal of analytics tools. Designed to be a quick aid for ...
And the winners are…
Having audience members fill out the cards wasn’t just for our own amusement (okay, mostly for our own amusement); there were prizes! Her...
Dead Letter Office: Post your review
June 9 - July 18
Storefront Theater
In this world premiere thriller conceived by Ben Viccellio, written by Philip Dawkins, and di...
2009 Performers
2009 Performers
DREW THE DRAMATIC FOOL (Drew Richardson)
Drew the Dramatic Fool reinvents the ancient art of brilliant bumbling. Inspi...
A Positive Las Vegas Story
I was eating lunch Monday at Chicago Hot Dogs on Rancho Drive when a woman sitting near me struck up a conversation with some people who ...
Increasing by 50%
50% has been a big number for us this year. Earlier in the season we achieved a 50% increase in subscriptions over our 2008-09 year. We’v...
Cankerblossom: A dark fairytale
It begins, as so many of these
stories do, with a knock at the door. A young couple discovers a cardboard
baby on their stoop. They gr...
Making A Charivari
April is the cruelest month for first year students at Dell’Arte International. More tears are shed during April than at any other time o...
Love The One You're With
The nice folks at Studio Chicago asked me to write a blog post for them. I was more than happy to oblige since I got to write about some...
Zwardeenah!
A typical adventure story of a young girl who transformed into a super powerful heroine in her wish to find happiness and understand the ...
from the Emerging Theatre Award finalists
Caffeine is proud to be one of the five finalists for the "2010 Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theater Award." The award was created in 2...
LUSH VALLEY
Director Kristin Marting, dramaturg Mahayana Landowne & video designer Tal Yarden along with writers Robert Lyons and Qui Nguyen are dev...
Homing Project Under Construction
This blog will be the future home of the Homing Project. To learn more about the project as the site develops, please read the original p...
Join us for an on-line chat!
Learn more about the MBA in Arts Administration in this live conversation, Tuesday, February 16, at 12:00 pm Central Time.
Tap 'n Tabla
Tap ’n Tabla is een spetterende combinatie van de vingervlugge Sandip Bhattacharya op tabla (Indiaas slagwerk) en de onnavolgbaar rappe v...
Incredible Image of Io
From the NASA website. This is a giant volcanic plume on the planet caused by the constant tidal pulling. The plume, named Prometheus, mi...
La mujer que cayó del cielo
La Mujer que Cayó del Cielo es una mirada asombrosa a la insensibilidad cultural entre los que están en el poder y la diversidad entre la...
The Lost Art of Taglines
The art of writing great and memorable taglines seems to have disappeared. A great tagline should tell a story about the brand, and more ...
Battle of Brooklyn
Rumur is raising funds for Battle of Brooklyn, their documentary on the Atlantic Yards fight. Check out the trailer here.
From their site...
artifact performance video
Finally ripped it — from Performance Mix Festival, February 2009, Joyce Soho.
Enjoy!
Artifact @ Performance Mix Festival from Aya Ogawa ...
Reading of Aurin Squire’s Bleed
As part of the Playwright’s Realm’s Writer’s Jam, I directed a reading of Aurin Squire’s Bleed tonight, Thursday, July 23rd.
Playwrights' Festival (A Special Event)
Fortune smiles as the Passage Play Lab returns with another collection of original one-act plays by area writers. This year, each wr...
punkplay is a hit!!!!!!!!
Time Out Chicago
Gives “punkplay” Five Stars!!!
“Brilliantly Funny”
“Farabee and Lane are nothing less then astonishing”
Kris Vi...