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Announcing the 2017-2018 Season

For the past 20 years, TimeLine has brought you inspiring, captivating, and groundbreaking work igniting conversations about our place in history. We are incredibly proud to be continuing that trend with our 21st season. This spectacular season will feature two Chicago premieres, a new TimeLine production of a Tony Award-nominated hit; and the first world premiere developed through TimeLine’s Playwrights Collective. Introducing TimeLine’s 2017-2018 Season: – The Chicago premiere of THE AUDIENCE by Peter Morgan, the imagined story of ...
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Playwrights Collective Spotlight: Susan McLaughlin Karp

Much Ado about the Mitfords You could say they were kind of like the Kennedys and also the Kardashians—but that wouldn’t quite paint the picture. Not by a long shot. 2013-2016 Playwrights Collective, Susan McLaughlin Karp For three years, a small group of playwrights worked ...
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Playwrights Collective Spotlight: John Conroy

A Mugging on Lake Street On its face, the attack made no sense. I’d never seen my assailant before; he’d never seen me.   2013-2016 Playwrights Collective, John Conroy For three years, a small group of playwrights worked with TimeLine Literary Manager Ben Thiem in ...
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Writing history, with space and time

As we welcome a second group of playwrights in residence as part of TimeLine’s Playwrights Collective, the company’s new-play incubator, we wanted to reflect on all the incredible work that has happened since the program was first launched in 2013. Over the past three years, ...
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Playwrights Collective, Round Two

TimeLine is overjoyed to announce the four playwrights who will be in residence during 2017 and 2018 with the Playwrights Collective, our new-play incubator. Tyla Abercrumbie, Will Allan, Maureen Gallagher, and Calamity West ave been named to the Playwrights Collective, joining the ranks of inaugural Playwrights ...
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A guide to creating infinity

… or, how to make an infinity mirror (and only break 2 mirrors in the process) In early conversations about A Disappearing Number, the team at TimeLine had many long discussions about the idea of infinity, both mathematical and metaphorical. We wanted the lobby experience for this production to recapture some of that sense of childhood wonder when one understands the infinite for the first time. One of the ideas we discussed for creating that ...
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A reminder of all that connects

I’m not a math guy. Never really have been and never really aspired to be. Like many “creative types,” the thought of math, equations or formulas makes my eyes glaze over and blood run cold. In college, I used my theatre curriculum as a protective ...
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An intense collaborative process

A Disappearing Number calls for projections, mathematics on stage, live music, Indian dance, time travel, altered sound and a set that magically transforms itself. When first created by Complicite, the play was devised collaboratively, and TimeLine’s approach to this new production also has been incredibly ...
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Influential Women Leaders: Your Suggestions

With a fond farewell, this weekend we closed Kate Hennig’s The Last Wife—a bold, modern twist on the life of King Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr. If you were able to join us during the run, you know that part of our lobby display ...
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Test Your Blink: The Results

So many of you tested your blink on the five images we had in the lobby during the run of Bakersfield Mist that it has taken us some time to tally the answers and give you the results, plus pick prize winners from among those ...
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