Caffeine Theatre Coffeehouse to Host Post-Show Discussion with EMILY Playwright, 4/3

Following their nomination for the 2010 Broadway In Chicago Emerging Theater Award, Caffeine Theatre has announced two new events relating to their Jeff-recommended production of WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY, currently running at Lincoln Square Arts Center.

Dwelling in Possibility: An Emily Dickinson Coffeehouse
6:30PM, Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Newberry Library
60 W. Walton St, Chicago

Celebrate Women's History Month and watch the combinations of Emily Dickinson's poetry and letters with new music, dance, and theatre inspired by her life and work. Winners of Caffeine's "Poetry to Take Your Head Off" poetry competition will also be performed.

The Coffeehouse will also feature new music from Chicago Opera Vanguard, who will team up with Caffeine this fall to produce the American premiere of Boojum! a musical based on the poetry of Lewis Carroll.

Admission to this event is free. No reservation required, but seating is limited. For more info, contact Caffeine Theatre Artistic Director Jennifer Shook at jen@caffeinetheatre.com

Post-show discussion with Madeline Olnek, WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY Playwright
Saturday, April 3

Caffeine Theatre welcomes Madeleine Olnek to the Lincoln Square Arts Center for the 8PM performance of her play Wild Nights With Emily, followed by a post-show discussion moderated by Caffeine Artistic Director and Emily dramaturg Jennifer Shook. Tickets are available at www.caffeinetheatre.com, and expected to go quickly.

Wild Nights With Emily will run through April 11 (no show Friday, April 2) at the Lincoln Square Arts Center (at Berry Methodist Church): 4754 N. Leavitt, Fridays at 8PM, Saturdays at 3PM & 8PM, and Sundays at 7PM. Tickets are $20, $18 senior, $16 student, $15 previews, group rates for 10+, available at www.caffeinetheatre.com or 312-409-4778.

With language-intense, idea-driven performances, Caffeine explores the role of the artist in society, and the potential of art for social change-to reclaim theatre's roots as a public forum to unite community, to hone citizenry (as Anna Deavere Smith suggests, the continuation of the national dialogue). The poetic tradition has laid the groundwork for us to become better through conversation, and we believe poetry and performance go hand in hand. As Robert Pinsky writes in Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry: "The social world in poetry ... is neither told about nor presented: it is, precisely, invoked: brought into being by the voice."

For more information, visit www.caffeinetheatre.com.