Theatre News - April 16, 2007

Hello, Chicago, and welcome to another enriched episode of the Talk Theatre and Chicago News

Podcast.

I'm your host, Dustin Mote, bringing you the theatre news for the week of April 16th, 2007.

Writers Theatre has announced their 2007-2008 season.

This season is the company's 16th season, and it will include the world premiere of

The Savannah Disputation by Evan Smith.

The play will open to a regular run on September 26th of this year and will be directed by

Writers Theatre artistic director Michael Halberstam.

Following that will be The Turn of the Screw, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from The Story

by Henry James.

This play will be directed by Jessica Thebes, who you may have heard of.

And will be opening on November 28th of this year.

As You Like It comes next, the classic by William Shakespeare.

That will be directed by William Brown, opening on February 13th of 2008.

And then closing out the season will be another classic, The Lion in Winter by James Goldman.

This one will be directed by Rick Snyder and opens on June 4th of next year.

But don't forget, there will be a holiday classic in the middle of that.

Writers Theatre's...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens will open on December 19th.

The play will be adapted and performed by artistic director Michael Halberstam, and

will be the 12th annual production of this dramatic one-man show.

For more in-depth information on Writers Theatre seasons, click on over to Talk Theatre in

Chicago's Theatre News section.

Victory Gardens is bringing back movies to the Biograph Theatre, and this time they're

going to be...

Tied to the theme of their live theatre productions.

That's right, Victory Gardens is bringing back Chicago's legendary Biograph Theatre

with Movie Night at the Biograph.

It will be a series of occasional movies, which launches on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22nd.

Starting off will be Al Gore's Academy Award winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth,

starting at 6.30pm.

An Inconvenient Truth is thematically tied to the current production on the main stage,

Cynical Weathers, a world premiere political drama by ensemble member Douglas Post.

As you may remember from an earlier newscast, Cynical Weathers stars television star Tom

Amandes, and is directed by Victory Gardens artistic director Dennis Zajcik.

Movie Night at the Biograph will kick off on Earth Day, so get your tickets to see a

movie the way it was really meant to be seen, at the Biograph.

Be sure to click on over to Talk Theatre in Chicago.

Be sure to click on over to Talk Theatre in Chicago's Theatre News section to read an

article from Ann Nicholson Weber, titled Hollywood Marketing for Indie Theatre.

This is the first time that we have embedded video onto the site, and it all revolves around

the new generation of Chicago theatre producers reaching out to audiences with Hollywood-style

marketing.

The two videos that you can watch today are The Pendragon Fight Week and Mercury Fur.

Now to see what I'm talking about, you have to click on over to

Talk Theatre in Chicago's Theatre News section.

Well, we at Talk Theatre in Chicago would like to congratulate the cast and crew of

Equus.

The play has now been extended through May 13th at the Actors Workshop Theatre.

You may remember from a couple of weeks ago when we interviewed Peter Oilo, who is currently

starring in Equus.

Well, his performances were powerful enough to extend the production, and we couldn't

be happier.

So, if you haven't had a chance to watch the show, click on over to Talk Theatre in Chicago's

Theatre News section to get a chance to catch Equus yet.

You need to get on out and see this play today.

Well, thank you very much for listening to this enriched episode of the Talk Theatre

in Chicago News Podcast.

We have come to the end of the news, but before we let you go, it's time for your Shakespeare

Quote of the Week.

The following quote comes from The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

Act 1, Scene 2.

A little more than kin and less than kind.

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