Next Theatre Presents THE EXONERATED, 4/19-5/5

Next Theatre Company has annoucned the final performance of their 2012-2013 season, Jessica Blank and Eric Jensen's The Exonerated, directed by Cat Miller, and co-produced with the Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern University and presented in partnership with The Center on Wrongful Convictions, April 19 - May 5 at the Josephine Louis Theater, 20 Arts Circle Drive, Northwestern University.

Opening/press night is Friday, April 19 at 8 p.m. The performance schedule is Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays at 8 p.m., and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $30 - $40 with student discounts available. Tickets may be purchased at nexttheatre.org or by calling 847-475-1875 x2.

Based on interviews conducted by playwrights Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, The ExoneraTed Follows six former Death Row prisoners whose convictions were reversed. From their trials to their incarcerations to their eventual releases, this award-winning play uses the words of these innocent men and women as they share the stories of everything and everyone that they lost when they were wrongly convicted, as well as the lives they are working to rebuild. The inaugural collaboration between Next and the Theatre and Interpretation Center (TIC) at Northwestern University, The Exonerated will be staged at TIC in partnership with The Center on Wrongful Convictions and will feature a cast of professional and student artists working together on this exploration of the criminal justice system.