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Academy Award winner Halle Berry will star in EXTANT. In a thrilling drama, Berry will play an astronaut who returns home from a year-long solo mission in space and tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.

FRESH FISH 2.0 Stages 8 Short Plays In One NIght 4/1- 4/19
by Gabrielle Sierra - March 02, 2009

B. Someday Productions presents FRESH FISH 2.0, the second year of its short play festival presented at the Walking Fish Theatre. This year-eight different plays with eight different directors and loads of different actors, all in one night! April 1-19, Wednesday-Saturday @ 8:00pm, Sunday @ 2:00pm. ...


Rinne Groff's THE RUB SUNRISE Extended At The Gift Theatre From 9/11-27
by BWW News Desk - September 11, 2009

Due to record Box Office Sales, The Gift Theatre announces extension of the Chicago Premiere of Rinne Groff?s ?The Ruby Sunrise?. Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise is directed by Gift Ensemble Member John Gawlik. It will be extended to run from September 11th-September 27th, 2009....


The Gift launches 2010 Season With ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
by BWW News Desk - March 11, 2010

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest runs March 11th - May 9th at The Gift Theatre. The play is written by Dale Wasserman and based on the novel by Ken Kesey. The show is directed by Ensemble Member John Kelly Connolly, and assistant directed by Bridget Esterhuizen....


The Gift Theatre Presents SANTA 2 Sketch Show 11/6-12/13
by Gabrielle Sierra - October 28, 2009

'Santa's Great American Depression Holiday Show! America 2: Son of Santa's Great American Depression Holiday Show! America .' Sketch comedy and improv at The Gift....


'Streamers' at the Gift Theatre Starts Sept 18th
by Steve Leary - August 24, 2008

1965. Boot camp is over, and now four young soldiers wait to be deployed into an ever-escalating Vietnam conflict. As anticipation, race, and sexuality climb to dizzying hights, a free fall begins that perhaps no man will survive. Streamers, a Tony Award Nominee and Drama Desk Award Winner, comes to...


The New School Presents The New Visions Drama Directing Festival 11/19-12/12
by BWW News Desk - November 19, 2009

The New School for Drama presents The New Visions Drama Directing Festival, a new series featuring seven contemporary plays performed in repertory November 30 through December 12 at the New School for Drama Theater. This festival highlights the work of the graduating MFA directing and acting student...


NJT Creates Holocaust-related Theater Archive
by Gabrielle Sierra - May 26, 2010

The National Jewish Theater Foundation/National Jewish Theater (NJT) under the leadership of its President and Producing Artistic Director, Arnold Mittelman, has embarked on the creation of the first production and research-oriented, Holocaust-related Theater Archive (HTA)....


The Gift Theatre Presents SUICIDE, INCORPERATED 6/10-7/25
by BWW News Desk - July 25, 2010

A World Premiere by Andrew Hinderaker SUICIDE, INCORPORATED, directed by Jonathan Berry. The show is featuring Gift Artistic Director and ABC's Private Practice's Michael Patrick Thornton Runs June 10th-July 25th. Special 'Come Closer' Performance on Sunday, July 18th....


Columbia Stages Announces 2010-2011 Season
by Gabrielle Sierra - September 24, 2010

COLUMBIA STAGES, the award-winning producing arm of Columbia University's MFA Theatre Arts Program, announces its 2010-2011 season beginning October 20th at The Riverside Theatre, 91 Claremont Avenue between 120th and 122nd Streets....


Gift Theatre Presents TALK RADIO & Night With Playright Bogosian April 2- May 30
by Robert Diamond - February 24, 2009

TALK RADIO by Eric Bogosian will be directed by Gift ensemble member Maureen Payne Hahner, and assistant directed by Gift ensemble member Alexandra Main from April 2nd - May 30th, 2009. ...


Rinne Groff's THE RUB SUNRISE Extended At The Gift Theatre From 9/11-27
by Reynard Loki - August 17, 2009

Due to record Box Office Sales, The Gift Theatre announces extension of the Chicago Premiere of Rinne Groff?s ?The Ruby Sunrise?. Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise is directed by Gift Ensemble Member John Gawlik. It will be extended to run from September 11th-September 27th, 2009....


Newly Restored Film THE RED SHOES To Make US Premiere At Directors Guild Of America 7/29
by Gabrielle Sierra - July 17, 2009

'The Red Shoes,' the newly restored 1948 masterpiece from directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, will have its U.S. premiere at the Directors Guild of America on July 29. The film underwent an extensive 2-year 4K digital restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Founda...


André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments Reopen at The Met, 3/2
by BWW News Desk - March 03, 2010

After an eight-month hiatus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments on March 2, featuring a refreshed and reinstalled presentation of its renowned collection of Western musical instruments....


'Streamers' at the Gift Theatre Starts Sept 18th
by Chicago News Desk - September 10, 2008

1965. Boot camp is over, and now four young soldiers wait to be deployed into an ever-escalating Vietnam conflict. As anticipation, race, and sexuality climb to dizzying hights, a free fall begins that perhaps no man will survive. Streamers, a Tony Award Nominee and Drama Desk Award Winner, comes to...


BWW Reviews: TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEBOWSKI - Ye Dude Abideth
by Duncan Pflaster - March 24, 2010

DMTheatrics' American Shakespeare Factory presents the theatrical premiere of 'Two Gentlemen of Lebowski', Adam Bertocci's viral internet parody of 'The Big Lebowski', as writ in the style of William Shakespeare....


The Gift Ends 2009 Season With The World Premiere of SUMMER PEOPLE 10/22-12/13
by BWW News Desk - December 13, 2009

SUMMER PEOPLE October 22nd - December 13th, A World Premiere by Ensemble Member Jenny Connell, Directed by Ensemble Member Paul D'Addario...


Scorsese Talks THE RED SHOES with The New York Times; Premieres in New York Tonight, 11/6
by Jessica Lewis - November 06, 2009

The Red Shoes, the newly restored 1948 masterpiece from directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, made its U.S. premiere at the Directors Guild of America on July 29 of this year after a world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The film will premiere tonight, November 6 and the Fil...


The Gift launches 2010 Season With ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
by BWW News Desk - May 09, 2010

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest runs March 11th - May 9th at The Gift Theatre. The play is written by Dale Wasserman and based on the novel by Ken Kesey. The show is directed by Ensemble Member John Kelly Connolly, and assistant directed by Bridget Esterhuizen....


Jean-Claude van Itallie to Hold Post Show Talkback, 4/7
by Samantha Jacobsen - April 07, 2010

Extant Arts Company will host a talkback with Jean-Claude van Itallie after the performance of Uncle Vanya April 7, 2010 at the Gene Frankel Theatre (24 Bond Street, between Bowery and Lafayette)....


Gift Theatre Presents Chicago Premiere of THE RUBY SUNRISE 6/25-8/9
by Reynard Loki - June 04, 2009

The Gift Theatre is conveniently located at 4802 N. Milwaukee in Chicago?s Jefferson Park neighborhood?two storefronts north of Lawrence, on the west side of Milwaukee?and is easily accessible by the Kennedy Expressway, the Lawrence and Milwaukee buses, and the CTA Blue Line....


The New School Presents The New Visions Drama Directing Festival 11/19-12/12
by BWW News Desk - December 12, 2009

The New School for Drama presents The New Visions Drama Directing Festival, a new series featuring seven contemporary plays performed in repertory November 30 through December 12 at the New School for Drama Theater. This festival highlights the work of the graduating MFA directing and acting student...


The Gift Ends 2009 Season With The World Premiere of SUMMER PEOPLE 10/22-12/13
by BWW News Desk - October 22, 2009

SUMMER PEOPLE October 22nd - December 13th, A World Premiere by Ensemble Member Jenny Connell, Directed by Ensemble Member Paul D'Addario...


Gift begins 2009 season with Stop/Kiss
by Steve Leary - January 03, 2009

Are we really living our lives or just sleepwalking? What do we want? And how willing are we to go after it, even if we must, in the pursuit, lose ourselves to find ourselves? Son?s play about a friendship between two girls which blossoms into a romance with devastating consequences receives a bold...


Extant Arts Company Presents Rebecca Gilman's BLUE SURGE 1/21-2/7
by Gabrielle Sierra - January 08, 2010

Extant Arts Company (Greg Taubman, Artistic Director) opens its season with a revival of Rebecca Gilman's melancholy romance Blue Surge January 21 through February 7, 2010 at The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street)....


Bogosian's TALK RADIO Opens At The Gift 4/2-5/30
by Gabrielle Sierra - April 03, 2009

TALK RADIO by Eric Bogosian Directed by Gift ensemble member Maureen Payne Hahner Assistant Directed by Gift ensemble member Alexandra Main April 2nd - May 30th, 2009 Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays @ 8pm; Sundays at 3:30pm....






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