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Extending the streak

The close of TimeLine’s 15th Anniversary season is fast approaching and the end of our fiscal year on June 30 is days away. This season seemed to fly by. It was our busiest yet with 107 additional performances, more than 800 new subscribers and 10,000 additional seats to fill; opening A Walk In The Woods and The Pitmen Painters within 19 days of each other; and producing the world premiere of John Conroy’s My Kind ...
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No easy answers

Today is the official Opening Night for TimeLine’s 51st production — the world premiere of John Conroy’s My Kind of Town. In July 2009 I got an email from John, introducing himself and inviting TimeLine’s Company Members to a reading of a play he was ...
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Past, present, future

This week we’re taking a trip down memory lane with an extensive interview with five of TimeLine’s founding Company Members, commemorating the 15th Anniversary of the meeting that started TimeLine on April 9, 1997.  You can read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 ...
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Auspicious craftsmanship

This week we’re taking a trip down memory lane with an extensive interview with five of TimeLine’s founding Company Members, commemorating the 15th Anniversary of the meeting that started TimeLine on April 9, 1997.  You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here and ...
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$50 in the hat

This week we’re taking a trip down memory lane with an extensive interview with five of TimeLine’s founding Company Members, commemorating the 15th Anniversary of the meeting that started TimeLine on April 9, 1997.  You can read Part 1 here and Part 2 here … ...
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JUST history plays?!

This week we’re taking a trip down memory lane with an extensive interview with five of TimeLine’s founding Company Members, commemorating the 15th Anniversary of the meeting that started TimeLine on April 9, 1997.  You can read Part 1 here … How do we make history not dusty and foreign, but immediate, urgent, sexy and a guide for how we move forward into the future? So, this mission of doing plays inspired by history. We’ve ...
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On this day …

This is it! April 9. It was on this day in 1997 that six artists — all graduates of The Theatre School at DePaul University — held the meeting that launched what would become TimeLine Theatre Company. While the company officially would not be incorporated ...
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TimeLine Theatre: 15 years

On Friday night, TimeLine celebrated our 15th Anniversary with a huge party at the Hotel InterContinental Chicago — Step Into Time: 1962 welcomed 300 guests to reflect on the 15 incredible years that have brought TimeLine from humble beginnings to where it is today. At ...
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What’s in a name?

In early 1999, Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune covered TimeLine for the first time, reviewing our second production, No End Of Blame by Howard Barker. He led off his review with this: TimeLine Theatre is a dull name for a new off-Loop Chicago troupe ...
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Memories of 1962

We choose to go to the moon. — President John F. Kennedy at Rice University, 1962 Two weeks from tonight, on Friday, March 16, 2012, TimeLine will produce what is essentially the fifth production of our 2011-12 season — our annual Step Into Time benefit. ...
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