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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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Share your thoughts

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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History before our eyes

In March 2004 Nicholas D. Kristof, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist wrote: For decades, whenever the topic of genocide has come up, the refrain has been, ‘Never again.’ Yet right now, the government of Sudan is engaging in genocide against three large African tribes in its Darfur region here. Some 1,000 people are being killed a week, tribeswomen are being systematically raped, 700,000 people have been driven from their homes, and Sudan’s Army ...
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Resources: In Darfur

As In Darfur prepares to begin performances next week, I wanted to provide a few resources for those audience members who want to read either before or after coming to see In Darfur. Those resources marked with an asterisk are highly recommended. Documentaries The following ...
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Company of the Year!

On the eve of Christmas Eve, texts and emails started flying among TimeLine’s staff, Company and Board members, as news broke that Terry Teachout had named TimeLine his “Company of the Year” in The Wall Street Journal.  Wow! Amidst the congratulations and messages of thanks ...
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Another first

Already a week in! Rehearsals for TimeLine’s next production — the Chicago premiere of Winter Miller’s In Darfur, directed by Nick Bowling, started last Monday, December 6. Since that first rehearsal one week ago, cast and production team have already finished their table work (a ...
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Share your thoughts

The past few weeks have been extraordinary as all of us at TimeLine have seen the world premiere of To Master the Art by William Brown and Doug Frew — the first play commissioned by TimeLine to be presented on our stage — open to ...
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