'Teacher Tales' Added to Steppenwolf Schedule
By: BWW News Desk Mar. 10, 2008
Steppenwolf Theatre Company is
pleased to announce the addition of Teacher
Tales: Stories from the Frontlines to its 2008 Traffic Series.
The one-time performance, which explores the failures and victories that define
"In Teacher Tales: Stories from the Frontlines,
Dr. Robert Boone and friends
provide a look "behind the curtain" at the motivational moments that
define teaching for some of
Dr. Robert Boone is the founder of Young Chicago Authors, publishers of Say What Magazine and home of the highly acclaimed teen poetry festival "Louder Than A Bomb."
Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ, 91.5 FM) is planning to re-broadcast the one-night only Trafficevents as part of its partnership with Steppenwolf.
Committed to the principle
of ensemble performance through the collaboration of a company of actors,
directors and playwrights, Steppenwolf
Theatre Company's mission is to advance the vitality and diversity of
American theater by nurturing artists, encouraging repeatable creative
relationships and contributing new works to the national canon. The
company, formed in 1976 by a collective of actors, is dedicated to perpetuating
an ethic of mutual respect and the development of artists through on-going
group work. Steppenwolf has grown into an internationally renowned
company of forty-one artists whose talents include acting, directing,
playwriting, filmmaking and textual adaptation. For more information, go to www.steppenwolf.org.
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HAIRSPRAY (Uptown Music Theater of Highland Park)
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2.
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