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The pressroom is open! TimeLine’s revival of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s quintessential Chicago classic opened last week and already ticket demand has been so strong that we have announced an extension through July 17. The audience response has been amazing, especially watching folks react to the dramatic lobby display, completely re-envisioned theatre space, and of course, the play itself. This town’s theater critics have already had their say (on opening night you certainly could ...
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Space for re-invention

One of the things TimeLine audiences often comment on is their appreciation for how our theater is continually re-invented. Our flexible seating system allows us to reconfigure where the playing area is and re-imagine the physical relationship between actor and audience. That flexibility is being ...
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From theater to reality

A few years ago I was browsing in a bookstore when a book caught my eye—The Front Page: From Theater To Reality by George W. Hilton. As a longtime fan of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s pressroom romp, I immediately picked it up and discovered ...
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On the ground in Darfur

As the production of In Darfur enters its final week, on Sunday, March 13, Timeline Theatre patrons had the opportunity to gain a dynamic insight into the realities and complexities of the Sudanese conflict via a forum with Human Rights Watch researcher Jehanne Henry. It ...
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Tracing the threads

As I left a post show discussion of In Darfur recently, one of the audience members grabbed my arm and said, “You are a theater company with a conscience and I appreciate that.” It is something I appreciate too. I feel very fortunate to have ...
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Our 15th Season!

Big news today! We’ve announced TimeLine’s 2011-12 Season — our 15th Anniversary season (amazing!) — a hot collection of plays that includes one world premiere, two Chicago premieres, a revival of a Pulitzer Prize-nominated work presented with a twist, and the TimeLine debut of two of Chicago’s most prominent directors. Plus, there’s more.  With a 75 percent increase in the number of TimeLine subscribers over the past two seasons and multiple sold-out productions, we had ...
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The power of art

Playwright Winter Miller visited TimeLine over the weekend! She saw the show (twice), hung out with cast members, took part in “A Conversation with Winter Miller” (led by Steppenwolf Theatre’s Director of Artistic Development Polly Carl) and stayed for a post-show discussion after Sunday’s performance ...
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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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TimeLine’s Chicago premiere of Winter Miller’s In Darfur is up and running and so far we are very gratified by the response audiences are having to this extraordinary play. Many of Chicago’s theater critics have already had their say but we hope you will share ...
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TimeLine’s All Star

A few months ago, TimeLine Artistic Director PJ Powers had a special plea for the readers of this blog: Vote online to help him become one of 25 “All Star” former guests of WTTW’s “Check, Please!” restaurant review show to be invited back for the ...
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