View/Download the 33 Variations Backstory, TimeLine's behind-the-scenes magazine with historical background, artist interviews and more. (PDF File)

Backstory is provided in advance of each production exclusively to TimeLine's FlexPass subscribers. This publication also serves as the theater's program book. You will receive a printed copy when you attend 33 Variations.

View/Download the 33 Variations Lobby Display featuring information and scholarly quotes related to Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, researched and written by dramaturg Maren Robinson and designed by lobby designer Dina Spoerl. (PDF File)

Accompanying these panels, TimeLine's display at Stage 773 includes re-created pages of Beethoven's Autograph version of the Diabelli Variations. Images used in TimeLine's display were obtained courtesy of the Beethoven-Haus Museum in Bonn, Germany. You may view images of the Diabelli Variations in Beethoven's hand here via the Beethoven-Haus digital archives.

Visit the International Beethoven Project (IBP), presenting Beethoven Festival: Revolution 2012 September 8 – 16, 2012, in Chicago.

The International Beethoven Project, a Chicago-based not-for-profit organization founded in 2009 by concert pianist George Lepauw, has in three short years made an indelible mark on the international music community. Beethoven is certainly IBP's hero, but the deeper intention behind IBP is to celebrate music and the greatest cultural achievements of humanity. Because of this, IBP always attempts to give plenty of context to Beethoven's world and music, including investigations into how and why our contemporary world can and still does relate to Beethoven, from everyday life to new music, art and politics.

You may wonder, why is TimeLine producing 33 Variations at Stage 773, for the second year in a row starting the season outside our normal home at 615 W. Wellington Avenue? Here's the answer! (PDF File)