Murder! Intrigue! Espresso! Baristas, a dark comedy written by Evan Twohy, will open up shop for a World Premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival. The production runs for 5 performances at The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street on August 15 at 2pm, August 18 at 9 pm, August 19 at 11pm, August 25 at 2pm, and August 28 at 7pm.
Victory Gardens Theater Artistic Director Dennis Zacek, Executive Director Jan Kallish, and Associate Artistic Director and producer of IGNITION Sandy Shinner proudly announce the six new plays selected for the company's 2010 IGNITION Festival.
Victory Gardens Fresh Squeezed announces the World Premiere of Aiming For Sainthood, written and performed by Arlene Malinowski, directed by Will Rogers. The production runs September 20-26, 2010, in the in the Richard Christiansen Theater at Victory Gardens, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago. The press opening is Monday, September 20, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.
Murder! Intrigue! Espresso! Baristas, a dark comedy written by Evan Twohy, will open up shop for a World Premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival. The production runs for 5 performances at The Kraine Theater, 85 East 4th Street on August 15 at 2pm, August 18 at 9 pm, August 19 at 11pm, August 25 at 2pm, and August 28 at 7pm.
Victory Gardens Theater Artistic Director Dennis Zacek, Executive Director Jan Kallish, and Associate Artistic Director and producer of IGNITION Sandy Shinner proudly announce the six new plays selected for the company's 2010 IGNITION Festival. The selected plays are: The Subject by Chisa Hutchinson; Aurora by Leonard Madrid; Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat; Mala Hierba by Tanya Saracho; We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 by Jackie Sibblies; and Undone by Andrea Thome.
Victory Gardens opens its 2010/11 Season with Edward Albee's At Home At The Zoo directed by Artistic Director Dennis Zacek. The production runs October 1 - October 31, 2010 at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Park.
Artistic Director Dennis Zacek and Executive Director Jan Kallish announce the final selection for the 2010-2011 Victory Gardens season.
Victory Gardens Theater Artistic Director Dennis Zacek, Executive Director Jan Kallish, and Associate Artistic Director and producer of IGNITION Sandy Shinner proudly announce the six new plays selected for the company's 2010 IGNITION Festival.
The time is now. The setting is a downtown Chicago theater, where Jack Shore, a popular TV personality, is appearing one night only in a tribute to his grandfather, Jacob Shemerinsky, great star of the Yiddish Theater.
Victory Gardens Theater Artistic Director Dennis Zacek and Executive Director Jan Kallish proudly announce that Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, currently in previews at New York's Second Stage Theatre, opens on Thursday, May 20; the smash hit production is slated to run though June 20, 2010. Second Stage Theatre will simultaneously produce Michael Golamco's Year Zero, May 18-June 13, 2010.
Artistic Director Dennis Zacek and Executive Director Jan Kallish proudly announce several triumphs of Victory Gardens Theater's 2009-2010 fiscal year, ending June 30, 2010. Among the theater's accomplishments are critically-acclaimed productions of Chad Deity and Year Zero, both of which were developed and produced through the theater's new play initiative, IGNITION.
The time is now. The setting is a downtown Chicago theater, where Jack Shore, a popular TV personality, is appearing one night only in a tribute to his grandfather, Jacob Shemerinsky, great star of the Yiddish Theater.
A Noise Within (ANW) concludes its 2009-10 season with celebrated Irish playwright JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE's THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD directed by Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director Geoff Elliott, which opens Saturday, April 17 and closes Saturday, May 22, 2010 (previews begin Saturday, April 10). The once controversial play - which sparked riots during and after its debut in Dublin in 1907, was booed in New York four years later, and resulted in the arrest of the Philadelphia cast on charges of staging an immoral performance - has since been recognized as a masterpiece.
Victory Gardens Theater Artistic Director Dennis Zacek and Executive Director Jan Kallish proudly announce that Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, currently in previews at New York's Second Stage Theatre, opens on Thursday, May 20; the smash hit production is slated to run though June 20, 2010. Second Stage Theatre will simultaneously produce Michael Golamco's Year Zero, May 18-June 13, 2010.
The time is now. The setting is a downtown Chicago theater, where Jack Shore, a popular TV personality, is appearing one night only in a tribute to his grandfather, Jacob Shemerinsky, great star of the Yiddish Theater.
The time is now. The setting is a downtown Chicago theater, where Jack Shore, a popular TV personality, is appearing one night only in a tribute to his grandfather, Jacob Shemerinsky, great star of the Yiddish Theater.
The time is now. The setting is a downtown Chicago theater, where Jack Shore, a popular TV personality, is appearing one night only in a tribute to his grandfather, Jacob Shemerinsky, great star of the Yiddish Theater.
The 17th Annual Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration program, posthumously honoring and celebrating the work of lighting and set designer Michael Philippi (Desire Under the Elms, Death of a Salesman), 'an esteemed longtime collaborator and friend', will take place on Monday, May 3, at the Goodman Theatre.
Crash Landing Theatre has announced four of five shows for the 2010/11 season. The shows include the Chicago Premiere of AT HOME AT THE ZOO, TREE, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JAMES; and the World Premiere of THE BOYS ROOM. Performance dates have not yet been released.
Victory Gardens Theater Artistic Director Dennis Zacek announced today exciting plans for the company's 38th season, promising 'new and compelling stories that transform, entertain and reflect the human condition.' The season will kick off with Edward Albee's At Home At The Zoo, starring Peter Strauss.
