Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom

Chicago Premiere

Feb 7, 2006 - Mar 26, 2006

Originally produced to great acclaim in London in 2004 and a subsequent hit Off-Broadway, Guantanamo is based on interviews with the families of men detained in Guantanamo Bay. This stirring drama weaves together riveting personal stories, legal opinion and political debate, putting a human face on the world’s headlines and examining the divisive line between maintaining national security and protecting human rights.

This Happy Breed

Nov 3, 2004 - Dec 19, 2004

A rarely produced gem, THIS HAPPY BREED exposes a different side of Noel Coward. This touching and emotional drama focuses on the conflict, frustration and love within a middle class British family during 20 years of peace between the two World Wars.

The Lion in Winter

Sep 30, 2003 - Nov 23, 2003

Back stabbing, spying, double-crossing and rampant infidelity – just a typical family Christmas for the Plantagenets, England’s royal family. This ingenious drama pits King Henry II against his strong-willed wife Eleanor of Aquitaine and their three heirs in a 12th-century struggle for love and power.

Hauptmann

Feb 4, 2003 - Mar 23, 2003

Facing a nation that has already decided his guilt, Richard Hauptmann insists he is innocent of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. His case is simple: Public pressure forced investigators to pin the “Crime of the Century” on this naïve illegal immigrant. John Logan’s explosive and highly theatrical drama reveals the birth of media frenzy and the execution of a potentially innocent man.

Halcyon Days

Feb 5, 2002 - Mar 17, 2002

In 1983, the world’s most powerful nation – the United States – invaded the smallest country in the Western Hemisphere – Granada. This cunning and dark comedy takes us behind the scenes of this bizarre moment in history to the speechwriters spinning furiously to win America’s first “public relations” war. William Brown, who won the Jeff Citation for Direction for TimeLine’s smash hit Not About Nightingales returns with this comic excursion into power, ideals and American politics.

February 9 – March 24, 2002

The Crucible

Oct 9, 2001 - Nov 25, 2001

Faith, Fear, Lust and Longing combust in Arthur Miller’s retelling of one of the strangest and most horrible chapters of American history – the Salem Witch Trials. Jeff Citation winning director Nick Bowling returns to TimeLine to illuminate the tale of a repressed town plunged into deadly panic and a family fighting to stand up for the truth at any cost.

To Live as Variously as Possible

World Premiere

Nov 15, 1999 - Dec 14, 1999

A theatrical celebration of the life and work of gay poet Frank O’Hara, the center of a dazzling array of painters, dancers and writers that exploded onto the New York scene in the 1950s. Using poems letters and stories by and about O’Hara, TO LIVE AS VARIOUSLY AS POSSIBLE captures a vibrant moment in time through the exuberant eye of this wonderfully accessible and influential poet.