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Life Lessons
"The present,” wrote author and folklorist, Zora Neale Hurston, “was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.” Witness…
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All in Good Time: Two Decades After Seeing St. Nicholas, Brendan Coyle Assumes the Role
Playwright Conor McPherson and actor Brendan Coyle go back to the late ’90s, when The Weir made McPherson a household name and Coyle earned…
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Twice Bitten: A Foreward from the Playwright
It’s 22 years since I wrote St. Nicholas, and I can still remember the dream that inspired it. I dreamt I had been bitten…
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Lady on Tour
On January 11, 1954, jazz singer Billie Holiday arrived in Copenhagen to kick off her first European tour, a trip long in the making.
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Danes in Chicago
As America’s melting pot coalesced in the 19th and 20th centuries, Danish immigrants comprised a small portion of the millions of new citizens. Between 1840 and 1914, around 300,000 Danes arrived in America (by comparison, more than four million Italians and four million Irish immigrated during this period).
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Solo Act: Linda Gehringer Takes Center Stage
Stage and screen star Linda Gehringer returns to the Owen Theatre, where she was last seen in Rebecca Gilman’s The Crowd You’re in With (a performance for which she earned a Joseph Jefferson Award nod). This time, she commands the stage as Helene, the central and sole character in Dael Orlandersmith’s new play.
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Spinning a Tale from a Sliver of Memory
Perhaps best known for her solo works in which she often inhabits multiple characters—with admirably expressive subtlety—playwright and performer Dael Orlandersmith is a storyteller through and through, an artist for whom no moment in life is insignificant, no person undeserving of consideration.
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A Note from the Artistic Director
I am thrilled to welcome Dael, Linda and Chay back to the Goodman for the opening production of our 2018/2019 Owen Theatre Season. I hope you find their work as insightful, deft and stirring as I do.
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Homeward Bound: Writer and Performer David Cale Dares to Look Back
I want to aim really high, artistically and emotionally. In the ‘70s I saw Bette Midler, and what she did to me as an audience member in making me feel connected to life, I want to do to other people.
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Swelling Sounds: Meet Music Arranger Matthew Dean Marsh
“It’s very much like a film score,” Marsh says of the music, which he will perform live on piano at every performance, accompanied by a quintet of musicians. “The song structures harken back to American Songbook-type songs—but with a contemporary flair.
