News
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 Posted in Click Clack Moo, Ensemble Activities, Fillet of Solo, General Thoughts, Neverwhere, Posts by Dorothy, Treasure Island, Wuthering Heights | No Comments »Welcome to new ensemble members, Hainsworth and Walsh! We are joyful and proud to announce our newest ensemble members: Chris Hainsworth and Christopher Walsh. You've seen them both a number of times at Lifeline (most recently Treasure Island and ...
Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry visit Neverwhere
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 Posted in Author Events, Neverwhere, Posts by Dorothy | No Comments »Neil Gaiman and his friend, actor/TV producer Lenny Henry (co-creator and producer of the Neverwhere BBC miniseries), came to see our production of Neverwhere on Sunday, June 13th. It was a top-secret, stealth situation. Their publicists told ...
Jeff nominations & the Streetscape
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 Posted in Busman's Honeymoon, General Thoughts, Mrs. Caliban, Parking, Posts by Dorothy, Treasure Island | No Comments »Glenwood Avenue Arts District dominates the Non-Equity Jeff nominations! Not only did Lifeline Theatre receive 13 Jeff nominations this year (the most of any company), but near-neighbors BoHo and Theo Ubique received 11 apiece, making us the three companies who received ...
Updates
Thursday, May 6th, 2010 Posted in General Thoughts, Neverwhere, Outside Events, Posts by Dorothy, Staff | No Comments »Benefit 2010: The Floating Market It was crazy ambitious. We had just a few hours to install a Floating Market into the Preston Bradley Hall in the Chicago Cultural Center. And due to the masterminds on our team, ...
Latest News
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 Posted in Author Events, Blue Shadow, General Thoughts, Posts by Dorothy, Staff | No Comments »The Blue Shadow opened on March 14th. Playwright Nambi Kelley, assisted by her nephew Xavier, created the play using folk tales from five different cultures and set the story in a Rogers Park classroom. (Nambi went to Field ...
Welcome, Meredith!
Friday, February 19th, 2010 Posted in Blue Shadow, General Thoughts, Neverwhere, Posts by Dorothy | No Comments »Welcome to Meredith Crilly of Chicago Semester Lifeline welcomes new intern Meredith Crilly, who will be with us full-time until early May. Meredith hails from Knoxville, Tennessee and is a junior Theatre and Art double-major at Dordt College in Iowa. She ...
The Dragon has arrived!
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Posted in Last of the Dragons, Posts by Dorothy | No Comments »The Last of the Dragons opened this weekend! We've got songs, sword fights, a talking parrot and -- of course -- a DRAGON! Oh yes, we totally have a dragon. The story calls for a 70-foot ...
Eric Lane Barnes news
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in Amazing Bone, Ensemble Activities, Mike Mulligan, Posts by Dorothy, Simple Jim | No Comments »Lifeline emeritus ensemble member Eric Lane Barnes making splashes across the nation It has been 10 years since Eric left Chicago for Seattle to become the assistant artistic director of and composer for the prestigious Seattle Men's Chorus. You can ...
Mrs. Caliban Sneak Peek
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in Last of the Dragons, Mrs. Caliban, Posts by Dorothy, Sneak Peeks | No Comments »We had a really fun subscriber/donor event on Sunday. The theater was swept completely bare and everyone who walked in said, "Whoa! I've never seen the space empty before." It was a fleeting state, so don't rush ...
Doro’s creative process
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Posted in General Thoughts, Posts by Dorothy | No Comments »Several folks have asked me for text copies of a short piece I performed at the recent City Lit 30th Anniversary Benefit (some of it originally written/performed for The Callback, a radio show podcast out of Strawdog Theatre back in ...