10 Things We Learned Buying HAMILTON Chicago Tickets
We, like many others, stood by our computers at 10am today, prepared for the rush to buy tickets for HAMILTON in its Chicago incarnation. Lessons were learned.
Steep Theatre’s 16/17 Season Features a Chicago Playwright
Directed by Josh Sobel Chicago Playwright Alex Lubischer’s, BOBBY CLEARLY, a play that went through workshops and public readings at Steep, will receive it’s world premiere staging and kick off the 16/17 season. In addition to BOBBLY CLEARLY 3 other shows, including a U.S. premiere and a Midwest premiere make...
Inside WASTWATER Part 2: Dialect
The principal mistake that many productions make when using dialects is that dialect becomes an add-on, a superficial layering on character rather than the mode by which a character expresses themself. Just as our respective geographic origins affect the way that we interact with other people, a theatrical character’s cultural, regional, and class background greatly reflect how an individual articulates the value system comprised of those elements. In other words, our dialect in many ways articulates us whether we love that or reject it. So, in exploring dialect work for WASTWATER—set around Heathrow airport—my goal is to mine the dialect of the region for as many tools as possible to help our team unlock that us within the ensemble of characters of this piece.