AstonRep Announces Season

AstonRep Announces Season

AstonRep Theatre Company announced its full 2016-17 Season, kicking off this fall with its first-ever world premiere – THE BLACK SLOT, Warren Hoffman’s satire about racial politics in the American regional theater, directed by Associate Artistic Director Derek Bertelsen.

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Broken Nose Theatre Announces Casting for HUMAN TERRAIN

Broken Nose Theatre Announces Casting for HUMAN TERRAIN

Continuing their first season as a pay-what-you-can organization, Broken Nose Theatre announced Friday the cast for the Chicago premiere of HUMAN TERRAIN by recent PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award winner Jennifer Blackmer. Directed by Broken Nose Artistic Director Benjamin Brownson, the production will feature Kim Boler as Mabry, Robert Koon (Alford),...

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Metropolis Announces ’16-’17 Season

Metropolis Announces ’16-’17 Season

The 16-17 Season at Metropolis includes Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (September 22 – November 6, 2016), Tom Stoppard’s ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (February 2 – March 19, 2017),  HAIR (May 18 – July 2, 2017), and the five-time Tony Award-winning play PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (July 13 – August 20, 2017). The Metropolis...

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Female-Driven ONE MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL Takes Stage This Week

Female-Driven ONE MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL Takes Stage This Week

When asked what led producing artistic director and founder of the ONE MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL (or 1MPF) to focus this year’s Chicago festival on female-identified writers and directors, Dominic D’Andrea said “over the past couple of years the climate of the festival has been more women-forward, just organically.

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IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES Deserves Our Attention

IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES Deserves Our Attention

Memories are beautiful moments that awake our purpose for living. It is not easy to memorialize the story of the Mirabal sisters and the volatile history of the Dominican people during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. However, Caridad Svich writes a symphonic liberation of Julia Álvarez’s renowned novel IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES.

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