Gift Announces KENTUCKY Cast and Designers
Gift Theatre announces KENTUCKY cast and design team.
Gift Sets Cast and Design Team for WOLF PLAY
Pictured: (left to right) ensemble member Jennifer Glasse with Isa Arciniegas, Dan Lin, Tim Martin, and AJ McGhee. The Gift Theatre has announced casting for its Chicago premiere of South Korean playwright Hansol Jung’s WOLF PLAY. In it, an American couple decides to ‘un-adopt’ their young Korean son because they...
This Isn’t Kansas Anymore: Inside COSMOLOGIES with Darci Nalepa
Our “Inside” series takes you behind the scenes of productions through blog posts written by the artists in the trenches. To read past “Inside” pieces, click here. (left to right) Darci Nalepa and Kenny Mihlfried in The Gift Theatre’s Midwest premiere of David Rabe’s COSMOLOGIES, directed by Artistic Director Michael Patrick...
Chase the Impossible — Inside COSMOLOGIES with Michael Patrick Thornton
Gift Artistic Director Michael Patrick Thornton takes us into his relationship with Playwright David Rabe, with a slew of advice for producing work that is “Impossible. Slippery. Colossal. Relentless.”
Inside COSMOLOGIES: David Rabe on Script Changes in Rehearsal and Working with The Gift Theatre
Playwright David Rabe talks about the process of getting COSMOLOGIES on its feet at The Gift.
Gift Announces 2019 Season and Artistic Promotions
(left to right) Gift Ensemble Members Jennifer Glasse, Maryann Thebus and Michael Patrick Thornton. The Gift Theatre has announced two of the three productions that will make up its 2019 season: a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning drama DOUBT: A PARABLE, and the Chicago premiere of Hansol Jung’s WOLF PLAY....
Gift Theatre Welcomes New Ensemble Member
The Gift Theatre welcomes its newest ensemble member.
Gift Sets Cast & Staff for Chicago Premiere of David Rabe’s COSMOLOGIES
The theater describes the show as the “whimsical humor of the Keystone Cops and Bugs Bunny into a particle collider with the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard and George Berkeley.”
Review: HAMLET at The Gift Theatre
…an intriguing production that, due to the wonderful work from Kyri and Fenner, will be one to be examined for years to come.
Gift Announces HAMLET Cast and Production Team
(top, l to r) John Kelly Connolly, Robert Cornelius, Shanésia Davis, Gregory Fenner and Daniel Kyri (bottom, l to r) Martel Manning, Casey Morris, Jake Szczepaniak, Hannah Toriumi and Netta Walker. The Gift Theatre has announced casting for William Shakespeare’s HAMLET, directed by Monty Cole. The production will feature Daniel...