33 Variations

by Moisés Kaufman
directed by Nick Bowling

Chicago Premiere

Aug 24, 2012 - Oct 21, 2012

at Stage 773,
1225 W. Belmont Ave.
Chicago, IL

TimeLine’s 2012-13 season opener is an elegant waltz between past and present, fact and speculation, a mother and daughter, and art and life. One of classical music’s enduring riddles is why Ludwig van Beethoven devoted four years of his diminishing life writing 33 variations of a mediocre waltz. Two hundred years later, a modern-day music scholar is driven to solve the mystery even as her own health and relationship with her daughter crumbles.

The result is an extraordinary new American play — accompanied throughout by a live pianist playing the variations themselves — about passion, parenthood, and the moments of beauty that can transform a life.

Cast

Production Team

* Member of Actors Equity Association

# Member of United Scenic Artists

~ Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society

+ TimeLine Company Member

^ TimeLine Associate Artist

§ TimeLine Playwrights Collective

Discussions & Events

  • Sunday Scholars Series
    Sunday, November 13 at 5 pm

    This one-hour post-show panel discussion features experts on the themes of the play.

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