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"How a Play is Made"
series, follows the production of Claudia Allen's "Fossils"
opening at Victory Gardens
Theatre on Lincoln Ave. Monday, May 21. (Previews start May
10, Wednesday performance with discussion May 23)
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Conversation with Playwright Claudia Allen
Tuesday, April 10, 10:30 a.m.
McGaw Hall #205, 802 W. Belden
Named Chicago's best playwright by Chicago Magazine in 1999, the
first woman to win the Joseph Jefferson award for new work -- then
the first woman to win it twice, Claudia
Allen is opening her "Fossils," starring Julie Harris,
at Victory Gardens Theatre
in May. Other recent Chicago hits have been Xena Live at About Face
and Hannah Free at Victory Gardens Theatre. Claudia Allen's manuscripts
are in the DePaul Library's Chicago Playwrights Manuscript Collection.
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Conversation with Director Sandy Shimmer and Asst.
Director/Dramaturg Sara Freeman
Thursday, April 12, 10:30 a.m.
McGaw Hall #205, 802 W. Belden
Follow the progress of a play, and specifically of "Fossils,"
with Director Sandy Shinner (also director of the current production
of Jonathan Wild in Victory Gardens Studio) and Dramaturg/Asst.
Director Sara Freeman.
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Chicago Theatre Events
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Teatro Luna performs "Generic Latina"
Tuesday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.
Schmidt Academic Center #154, 2320 N.Kenmore(but because of construction,
entrance is through library, 2350 N. Kenmore -- follow the corridors
south)
Directed by Aarati Kasturirangan, Generic Latina is an original
work by Teatro Luna -- Chicago's first all-Latina/Hispana theater
ensemble. Based on our life stories and family histories. Generic
Latina is a humorous challenge to audiences to look beyond the popular
stereotypes of Latina women. From a young woman struggling with
the question "Am I black or am I white?" to a Cuban mother
trying to explain the difference between an immigrant and a refugee
to her American born daughter, to a sorority girl's terrorist tracts,
Generic Latina presents the stories of Latina women with honesty,
insight, and humor. Sponsored by DePaul University Nuestra América
series.
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Opening Reception, Chicago Playwrights Manuscripts
Collection
Monday, May 7, 3:30 p.m.
Special Collections, 2350 N. Kenmore
Meet the playwrights, playwrights reading. To see what's in the
collections, Chicago
Playwrights Manuscripts (click on Collections; click on Chicago
Playwrights) at DePaul Richardson Library Special Collections.
Reception and readings by playwrights.
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Conversation with Playwright Lonnie Carter
Tuesday, May 15, 10:30 a.m.
McGaw Hall #205, 802 W. Belden
Lonnie
Carter's plays are known for what Howard Stein describes as
a "furious, spectacular, fertile use of language." His
plays include The Sovereign State of Boogedy Boogedy, Iz She Izzy
or Iz He Ain'tzy or Iz They Both, Smoky Links, Bicicletta, The Gulliver
Trilogy, Baby Glo, and Wheatley, which Lonnie Carter describes as
"my all-sung all the time choral drama about Phillis Wheatley."
Lonnie Carter's works and manuscripts are in the DePaul Library's
Chicago Playwrights Manuscript Collection.
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"Burlesque in Chicago"
Friday, May 18, 4 p.m.
Fullerton Building #202, 1150 W. Fullerton
Rachel Shteir,
Head of Dramaturgy at DePaul Theatre school talks from her
forthcoming book, Grit Glamour and the Grind: A History of
Strip Tease, (which tells the story of striptease from its
roots in second Empire France to its demise in the American
sexual revolution. How striptease began, what it means, who
did it, who watched it and how it got that way). Her talk
on Chicago Striptease coversfrom the Rialto to the State and
Harrison, from Calumet City to downtown, Chicago striptease
with its own character and quality, defined by its fough,
savage essence, in the Jazz Age, the Depression, and the Post
War Era. The Second City always envisioned itself as the true
crucible of striptease, and produced stripteasers who became
part of the city's heritage and imaginative life. Reception
following.
Sponsored by the DePaul
University Humanitites Center and the American
Studies Program.
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Panel: Origins of Gay and Lesbian Theatre in Chicago
Monday, May 21, 4:00 p.m.
Schmidt Academic Center #154, 2320 N. Kenmore (but because of construction,
entrance is through library, 2350 N. Kenmore -- follow the corridors
south)
Panelists include Larry
Bommer, founding playwright of Lionheart and theatre critic;
Rick Paul, founder of Lionheart Gay Theatre; Byron Stewart, of A
Real Read; David Zak, of Bailiwick and the Bailiwick Pride Series;
and Susan Lersch
of Speak Its Name. "A blast from the past" -- with reception
following. Sponsored by the DePaul
University Humanitites Center.
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Conversation with Playwright Nick Patricca
Thursday, May 24, 10:30 a.m.
McGaw Hall, #205, 802 W. Belden
Nicholas A. Patricca is a member of the Playwrights Ensemble
at Tony Award winning Victory Gardens Theater, Artistic Associate
at Bailiwick Repertory,founding member of the Chicago Alliance
for Playwrights and author of many plays, including Radiance
of a Thousand Suns: the Hiroshima Project, An Uncertain Hour,
Oh, Holy Allen Ginsberg, The Fifth Sun, Gardinia's 'n' Blum.
(Nick Patricca's works and manuscripts are in the DePaul Library's
Chicago
Playwrights Manuscript Collection.)
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For more information, call or e-mail Carol Cyganowski,
Coordinator of the Chicago Theatre quarter and 2000-2001 DePaul
Humanities Center Fellow.
Phone: (773) 325-7537
e-mail: ccyganow@condor.depaul.edu
or american@condor.depaul.edu
Events in this series are sponsored by the DePaul University Humanities
Center and Depaul University American Studies Program
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