Artist Interviews

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“Trust no one in this play”

During rehearsals for Blood and Gifts, TimeLine Artistic Director PJ Powers (PJP) talked with playwright J.T. Rogers (JTR) about his genesis as a playwright, the extensive research that informed the writing of Blood and Gifts, and the lamentable lack of plays with a global perspective premiering on American stages. An edited version of this interview was included in the Blood and Gifts Backstory. This is the full version. Read on: Playwright J.T. Rogers (photo by ...
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Conroy. Kogan. Conversation.

John Conroy (right) and Rick Kogan in conversation at the Chicago Cultural Center, June 25, 2012. We were so thrilled to welcome a nearly full house — about 200 people —  to the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theatre last night for a wide-ranging conversation ...
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Lee Blessing – An interview

I was fascinated by these nations putting some of their best people in critically sensitive jobs with the sole intention of letting them fail. It’s hard to find a more existential situation than that.  — “A Walk in the Woods” playwright Lee Blessing Recently Artistic ...
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An interview with Winter

I needed to go there. I needed to breathe in the dust, feel the ground, look into people’s eyes and just feel what it felt like to be there, or else I felt in danger of writing an academic treatise rather than a play with ...
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Three Plays. Three Directors. One Interview.

A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE WORK OF ATHOL FUGARD Welcome to January and the official beginning of Chicago’s Fugard Chicago 2010.  As you may know, TimeLine, Court and Remy Bumppo theatres are collaborating in an effort to bring awareness to Athol Fugard’s important work.  Last month, ...
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Saying goodbye

TimeLine Company Member Janet Ulrich Brooks, who plays Sophie Treadwell in Not Enough Air, reflects on the play’s final weekend of performances: Company member Janet Ulrich Brooks as Sophie Treadwell in Not Enough Air We are in the last week of Not Enough Air, and what was such an exciting and rewarding experience is soon to be “old news.” Rehearsals have begun for The History Boys, we are in the throes of selecting the 2009-10 ...
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A feeling of family

As The History Boys starts its second week of rehearsals, we are excited to post the first of hopefully many updates and reflections from members of the cast and production team. Our first contributor is Brad Bukauskas: We officially began rehearsals on March 9, and ...
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