Professional company dedicated to the word and artist performs extraordinary theatre in a small (seats about 50) anteroom (the intimate Nicholas Pennell Theatre) to the Glencoe bookstore, Books on Vernon. Notable past shows have included: The Chicago Tribune called the 1997 Jeff-nominated Glass Menagerie "one of the very best shows of the current season."
Private Lives (which the Chicago Sun Times called "Perfection!") also was nominated for a Jeff, as was Kristine Thatcher's Niedecker, and Richard II that year. Memoir and Blake were Jeff-nominated in 1996. Love & Lunacy , adapted from the writings of Gogol and Chekhov (March '93), A Play of Words , adapted from the writings of North American comic masters including Ring Lardner, Dorothy Parker and a short story by John Cheever (July '93); Dear Master , adapted from the correspondence of George Sand and Flaubert (September '94 -- the Chicago Reader called it "stunning... marvelous... intense and endearing"); Not About Heroes , co-produced with the Apple Tree Theatre in Highland Park, and featuring the late Nicholas Pennell of the Stratford Festival and Chicago actor David New (both actors were Jeff nominated, January 1994); My Own Stranger , adapted from the writings of Anne Sexton, with which we became an Equity theatre, featuring Marilyn Campbell and Oscar Nominee Penelope Milford (May 1994); Two by Shaw: Man of Destiny and Village Wooing for which Adrianne Cury received a Jeff Nomination, directed by Richard Block - founder of the Actors' Theatre Louisville (September '94); In The Heart of Winter our annual series of holiday readings - this year featuring Robert Scogin (Dec. '94); Oscar Remembered , a one man show based on the life of Lord Alfred Douglas and his relationship with Oscar Wilde, directed by David Cromer and featuring Artistic Director Michael Halberstam, which played to full houses almost every weekend of run, breaking all previous box office records (January 1995); Marriage & Bears - two vaudevilles by Anton Chekhov, featuring Marilyn Campbell (April '95); and a critically acclaimed production of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar , which played to Standing Room Only audiences for almost its entire run. They run a Saturday youth acting studio, offering 3 classes - a puppet class for 5-7 year olds, a second city style improv class for 8-10 year olds, and a Shakespeare class where the children rehearse and perform an adapted full length play by Shakespeare each semester (As You Like It , Twelfth Night , Macbeth , and A Midsummer Night's Dream ...)
For more information, visit their website: http://writerstheatre.org
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