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Press Release
BoHo Theatre 2437 W Farragut Ave #3B, Chicago, IL 60625 773-791-2393 www.BoHoTheatre.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Peter Blair, Executive Director March 4, 2011 Ph. 860-833-1107 (not for publication) [email protected] BOHO THEATRE FINDS BEAUTY WITH DIRTY BLONDE CHICAGO—BoHo Theatre presents Claudia Shear’s Dirty Blonde, a multilayered exploration of American entertainment icon Mae West as seen through the eyes of a pair of disaffected present-day fans, running April 1 through May 1, 2011 at Theater Wit, 1229 W Belmont Avenue. Dirty Blonde is directed by BoHo Artistic Advisor Stephen Genovese. “I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.” –Mae West Claudia Shear’s hilarious and touching play weaves together the rise and fall of Mae West, the legendary star of stage and screen, with the awkward romance of Jo and Charlie, two Mae West fanatics in present- day New York. The brash and outspoken Jo is an aspiring actress stuck in a cycle of temp jobs while Charlie, a meek and introspective soul, works in the film archives of the New York public library. Though seemingly polar opposites, both are striving for something they see in Mae—a confidence and finesse that made her into the extravagant, sexy, taboo-breaking public persona that was the hallmark of her fame. But Mae sacrificed much to maintain her public image. What are Charlie and Jo willing to sacrifice to become like her? Directed by Jeff Award-winning director Stephen Genovese (Sideshow, The Glorious Ones, I Am My Own Wife (co-director)), the production features three versatile and talented performers who sing, dance, and play dozens of characters. -
(Apr '18) Kristin Idaszak Cloudgate Theatre Octagon
Director 312.636.6783 * [email protected] Another Jungle* (Apr ’18) Kristin Idaszak Cloudgate Theatre Octagon (US Premiere) Kristiana Rae Colón Jackalope Theatre Devour Ensemble Devised Poetic Forum Collective good friday* Kristiana Rae Colón Oracle Theater Co-Production BARS and MEASURES* Idris Goodwin Prop Thtr (NNPN) Twisted Knots* Dale Danner Chicago Commercial Collective DUST* Rob Smith lower case theatre the old ball game* Kristiana Rae Colón First Floor Theater DisConnected Ensemble Devised Poetic Forum Collective good friday^ Kristiana Rae Colón Stage Left Theatre in your own backyard* Kristiana Rae Colón Chicago Home Theater Festival DeHuman* Ensemble Devised Poetic Forum Collective The Foreplay Play Mariah MacCarthy Realize Theatre Group Octagon^ Kristiana Rae Colón National New Play Network Cauldron of Morning* Kristiana Rae Colón Broken Nose Theatre Chicago Afterdark* Tate Geborkoff Chicago Fringe El Stories XVI* Devised/Adaptation The Waltzing Mechanics RAW Chris O’Connell Deluge Theatre Collective The BenchMark Richard A. Roberts Step Up Productions one week in spring^ Kristiana Rae Colón Halcyon Theatre Patria Libre* Zoe Miller-Lee Prologue Theatre Company The All-American Genderfuck Cabaret Mariah McCarthy Pride Films and Plays at Mary’s Attic The Last Daughter of Oedipus* Jennifer Mickelson Babes with Blades Assistant Director (Opera) La Traviata (May ’18) dir. Patricia Racette Opera Theater St. Louis The Consul dir. Andreas Mitisek Chicago Opera Theater The Consul dir. Andreas Mitisek Long Beach Opera Theater The Fairy Queen dir. Andreas Mitisek Chicago Opera Theater Le Vin Herbe (The Love Potion) dir. Andreas Mitisek Chicago Opera Theater La Voix Humaine dir. Andreas Mitisek Chicago Opera Theater Gianni Schicchi dir. -
Mary Stuart First Mortality in the Film, Public Enemies, Taking a .45 Slug in the Solar Plexus from a Deranged Stephen Dorff
Artist Biographies Jeff Christian (Director, Leicester) led the company for eight Peter Garino (Sir Amias Paulet, Artistic Director) is a founding seasons, having adapted and directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, member of The Shakespeare Project of Chicago and has contributed to Henry VIII, the gender-swapped The Comedy of Errors, In Medea Res over 50 theatrical readings as an actor and director since 1995. He (from Euripides’ Medea), Henry VI (from Shakespeare’s trilogy), directed Measure For Measure to open the current season and is Faust (from Marlowe and Goethe), The Parvenu (from Moliere’s Le scheduled to appear in The Merry Wives of Windsor prior to directing Bourgeois Gentilhomme), Ibsen’s Ghosts, Dickens’s The Cricket on The Tempest in the spring. This past season, he appeared in Paradise the Hearth, the outreach program 50 Minute Hamlet, as well as having Lost, directed Antony & Cleopatra played Thomas and David in The staged King Lear, Love’s Labours Lost, As You Like It, Sheridan’s The Rivals and Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII. On behalf of The Rivals, Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, and Regina M. Shakespeare Project, he has facilitated his Sonnet Workshop and Page Schwartz’s adaptation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost. Other to the Stage Macbeth for local public and private schools and colleges. directing credits include Mojo Mickybo, A Whistle in the Dark and Previous roles include Lord Stanley in Richard III, Creon in Jeff Our Father (Seanachai Theatre Company), The Skin of Our Teeth Christian's adaptation, In Medea Res, Duke Senior and Duke Frederick (The Artistic Home), Proof and Driving Miss Daisy (New American in As You Like It, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Mortimer in The Constant Wife, Rev. -
Małgorzata Bugaj Panoptikum 2019, 21:81-94
Małgorzata Bugaj Panoptikum 2019, 21:81-94. https://doi.org/10.26881/pan.2019.21.05 Małgorzata Bugaj University of Edinburgh “We understand each other, my friend”. The freak show and Victorian medicine in The Elephant Man. Anxieties around the human body are one of the main preoccupations in the cinema of David Lynch. Lynch’s films are littered with grotesque corporealities (such as the monstrous baby in Eraserhead¸1977; or Baron Harkonnen in The Dune, 1984) and those of disabled or crippled characters (the protagonist in the short Amputee; 1973; the one-armed man in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, 1992). The bodies in his films are often presented as fragmented (literally, cut off from the whole, or figuratively, by using close-ups) or distorted in the eye of the camera (a technique used, for example, in Wild at Heart, 1990, or Inland Empire, 2006). The director frequently highlights human biology, particularly in bodies that are shown to lose control over their physiological functions (vomiting blood in The Alphabet, 1968, or urinating in Blue Velvet, 1986). This interest in characters defined primarily through their abnormal corporeal forms is readily apparent in Lynch’s second feature The Elephant Man (1980) centring on a man severely afflicted with a disfiguring disease1. 5IFGJMN MPPTFMZCBTFEPO4JS'SFEFSJDL5SFWFTNFNPJSThe Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences (1923), revolves around three characters inspired by real- life personas: John Merrick (the titular ‘Elephant Man’ Joseph Carey Merrick, %PDUPS5SFWFT UIFBGPSFNFOUJPOFE4JS'SFEFSJDL5SFWFT and Bytes (Tom Norman, 1860-1930). Accordingly, the story shifts between dif- 1 It is worth noting that the film was released in the wake of a cultural rediscovery of the John Merrick story nearly a century after his death. -
Press Kit 2018-2019 Season
PRESS KIT 2018-2019 SEASON Shelby Colona and Chris Bloom in CARMEN.maquia | Photo by Marius Fiskum/ Northern Lights Festival MISSION & HISTORY Ballet Hispánico, America’s leading Latino dance organization, has been bringing individuals and communities together to celebrate and explore Latino cultures through dance for nearly 50 years. Whether dancing on stage, in school, or in the street, Ballet Hispánico creates a space where few institutions are breaking ground. The organization’s founder, National Medal of Arts recipient Tina Ramirez, sought to give voice to the Hispanic experience and break through stereotypes. Today, Ballet Hispánico is led by Eduardo Vilaro, an acclaimed choreographer and former member of the Company, whose vision of social equity, cultural identity, and quality arts education for all drives its programs. Ballet Hispánico, a role model in and for the Latino community, is inspiring creativity and social awareness in our neighborhoods and across the country by providing access to arts education. CARMEN.maquia | Photo by Marius Fiskum/ Northern Lights Festival 2 ABOUT EDUARDO VILARO Artistic Director & CEO EDUARDO VILARO joined Ballet Hispánico as Artistic Director in August 2009, becoming only the second person to Photo by Paula Lobo Paula Photo by head the company since it was founded in 1970. In 2015, Mr. Vilaro took on the additional role of Chief Executive Officer of Ballet Hispánico. He has been part of the Ballet Hispánico family since 1985 as a dancer and educator, after which he began a ten-year record of achievement as founder and Artistic Director of Luna Negra Dance Theater in Chicago. Mr. -
May 25 – July 8, 2018 PRODUCTION STAFF & ARTISTS
presents Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman Originally produced and directed on Broadway by Harold Prince Directed by Linda Fortunato** Music Direction by Tom Vendafreddo Re-orchestrations by Malcolm Ruhl PERFORMERS Desiree Armfeldt .............................................................................................................. Kelli Harrington Fredrik Egerman ....................................................................................................................Peter Robel* Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm ........................................................................................Christopher Davis Countess Charlotte Malcolm .......................................................................................Stephanie Stockstill Anne Egerman ........................................................................................................................Rachel Guth Henrik Egerman ............................................................................................................ Jordan Dell Harris Mme. Armfeldt ...........................................................................................................Marguerite Mariama Fredrika Armfeldt ..............................................................................................................Isabelle Roberts Petra ...............................................................................................................................Teressa -
Diversity in the Arts
Diversity In The Arts: The Past, Present, and Future of African American and Latino Museums, Dance Companies, and Theater Companies A Study by the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the University of Maryland September 2015 Authors’ Note Introduction The DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the In 1999, Crossroads Theatre Company won the Tony Award University of Maryland has worked since its founding at the for Outstanding Regional Theatre in the United States, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2001 to first African American organization to earn this distinction. address one aspect of America’s racial divide: the disparity The acclaimed theater, based in New Brunswick, New between arts organizations of color and mainstream arts Jersey, had established a strong national artistic reputation organizations. (Please see Appendix A for a list of African and stood as a central component of the city’s cultural American and Latino organizations with which the Institute revitalization. has collaborated.) Through this work, the DeVos Institute staff has developed a deep and abiding respect for the artistry, That same year, however, financial difficulties forced the passion, and dedication of the artists of color who have theater to cancel several performances because it could not created their own organizations. Our hope is that this project pay for sets, costumes, or actors.1 By the following year, the will initiate action to ensure that the diverse and glorious quilt theater had amassed $2 million in debt, and its major funders that is the American arts ecology will be maintained for future speculated in the press about the organization’s viability.2 generations. -
Press Release
BOHO THEATRE P.O. Box 409267, Chicago, IL, 60640 Office: (773) 791-2393 [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kaela Altman, Executive Director August 19, 2013 [email protected] BOHO THEATRE DELIVERS CHILLING 10TH SEASON OPENER WITH VERONICA’S ROOM CHICAGO—BoHo Theatre kicks off its milestone 10th season with Ira Levin’s horror thriller Veronica’s Room at the Heartland Studio in Rogers Park. Running September 27th through October 27th, the play is a rarely-produced work from the acclaimed author of the novels Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives, and A Kiss Before Dying, as well as Deathtrap, which holds the record for Broadway’s longest running mystery play. Veronica’s Room represents the Bohemian Pillar of Freedom in BoHo’s 2013/2014 Season. THE PLAY “[Ira Levin] is the Swiss watchmaker of the suspense novel… he makes what the rest of us do look like those five-dollar watches you can buy in the discount drugstores.” -Stephen King, Danse Macabre This intimate thriller explores the thin line between fantasy and reality, and the lengths one is willing to go to find absolution. Students Susan and Larry find themselves enticed to an old New England mansion by its elderly caretakers in order to meet Cissie, the sole surviving member of the mansion’s family. They insist that Susan bears a striking resemblance to Cissie’s long-dead sister, Veronica. If Susan will agree to briefly impersonate Veronica, they believe it will comfort the dementia-afflicted Cissie and allow her to die in peace. But what begins as a simple errand of mercy quickly spirals into a nightmare cycle of guilt, sacrifice, and murder. -
Program Combines the Principles of a Cooperative and a Traditional Rental House to Create a More Cohesive, Professional, and Efficient Nonprofit Environment
Company artistic Director Peter Marston Sullivan Executive Director Peter Blair mission & Vision artistic advisor BoHo Theatre’s mission is to create theatre Stephen M. Genovese that incorporates the arts as a whole — Art for art’s sake. Our vision is to challenge Executive advisor convention through literary originality and Thomas J. Samorian eclectic expression while fostering an ever- evolving artistic environment in which people assoc. artistic Director are inspired to learn, think, dream, and feel. Peter Robel To teach others and ourselves how to expand, create, and present art through theatre while managing Director reveling not only in the process, but also in the journey. Ryan Guhde media Director & Board Graphic Designer Charles Riffenburg IV Stephen M. Genovese, president; Thomas J. Samorian, vice-president; Casting associates Kaela Altman; Steve Goodman; Stephanie Sullivan Robert Kimmeth; Richard Maxen; Rebecca Mauldin Bob Turner; Jean Zuiker Development Coordinator artistic affiliates Anna Hammonds Anthony Apodaca, Brenda Didier, Board/Company Secretary Patrick Ham, Theresa Ham, Mary Kate Robel Jon Steinhagen, A. Scott Williams, and John Zuiker new Works & Social media manager Ariel Trocino Company member Sean Thomas BoHo THeaTre is a not-for-profit 501 (c) 3 organization. our events and productions are made possible by your generous donations and patronage. Please visit our website at www.bohotheatre.com or speak with our house manager to learn about more ways to contribute time, money, and talent to helping support art in Chicago. any monetary donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Thank you! BoHo Theatre: Bohemian Theatre Ensemble presents tHE rainmakEr By N. -
ORGANIZATIONS EVOLUTIONARY JOURNEYS ONGOING DIALOGUE EXPLORATION TESTING IDEAS ENDURING COLLABORATIONS SHARING KNOWLEDGE EDUCATION PROSPERITY and HOPE Annual Report
LLOYD A. FRY FOUNDATION 35YEARS HUNDREDS OF ORGANIZATIONS EVOLUTIONARY JOURNEYS ONGOING DIALOGUE EXPLORATION TESTING IDEAS ENDURING COLLABORATIONS SHARING KNOWLEDGE EDUCATION PROSPERITY AND HOPE Annual Report FOR 2018 ALL CHICAGO For the past 35 years, the Fry Foundation has supported hundreds of organizations that improve the lives of low-income, underserved Chicagoans. This year’s Annual Report highlights 15 of the Foundation’s longest-term grantees across our four funding areas: Arts Learning, Education, Employment and Health. The organizations within these pages share more than longevity. They share an ability to evolve. While they all have served more and more individuals over time, they not only have gotten bigger, they also have gotten better. They thoughtfully adjust their strategies to respond to new information and new challenges, whether that’s an increase in demand or a decrease in public funding. They strengthen the services they provide, continually addressing the complex, changing needs of Chicago students, workers and patients. As a result, these 15 grantees have become exemplars within their fields. Others now look to them and learn. The Fry Foundation has long supported these grantees on their evolutionary journeys. The Foundation has been in ongoing dialogue with them, helping them to expand, to partner with other organizations, to explore cutting-edge methods and technologies, and to identify new opportunities and take advantage of them. “We have had many conversations with the program officers at the Fry Foundation not just about the grants but about the work in our field. We value the Fry Foundation as a partner,” says Christina Warden of Women Employed—echoing the ways that the Fry Foundation’s grantees often speak of its enduring collaborations with them. -
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Company artistic Director Peter Marston Sullivan Executive Director Peter Blair mission & Vision BoHo Theatre’s mission is to create theatre artistic advisor that incorporates the arts as a whole — Art Stephen M. Genovese for art’s sake. Our vision is to challenge convention through literary originality and Executive advisor eclectic expression while fostering an ever- Thomas J. Samorian evolving artistic environment in which people are inspired to learn, think, dream, and feel. assoc. artistic Director To teach others and ourselves how to expand, Peter Robel create, and present art through theatre while reveling not only in the process, but also in the journey. managing Director Ryan Guhde Board media Director IV Stephen M. Genovese, president; Charles Riffenburg Thomas J. Samorian, vice-president; Kaela Altman; Steve Goodman; Casting Coordinator Robert Kimmeth; Richard Maxen; Stephanie Sullivan Bob Turner; Jean Zuiker Casting assistant Rebecca Mauldin artistic affiliates Anthony Apodaca, Brenda Didier, Board/Company Secretary Patrick Ham, Theresa Ham, Mary Kate Robel Jon Steinhagen, A. Scott Williams, and John Zuiker new Works manager Ariel Trocino Company members Anna Hammonds Sean Thomas BoHo THeaTre is a not-for-profit 501 (c) 3 organization. our events and productions are made possible by your generous donations and patronage. Please visit our website at www.bohotheatre.com or speak with our house manager to learn about more ways to contribute time, money, and talent to helping support art in Chicago. any monetary donations are -
The Historical Articulation of the Disabled Body in the Archive
Old Dominion University ODU Digital Commons English Theses & Dissertations English Spring 2019 Speaking for the Grotesques: The Historical Articulation of the Disabled Body in the Archive Violet Marie Strawderman Old Dominion University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds Part of the Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Disability Studies Commons, and the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Strawderman, Violet M.. "Speaking for the Grotesques: The Historical Articulation of the Disabled Body in the Archive" (2019). Master of Arts (MA), thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/ 3qzd-0r71 https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/80 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the English at ODU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in English Theses & Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ODU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SPEAKING FOR THE GROTESQUES: THE HISTORICAL ARTICULATION OF THE DISABLED BODY IN THE ARCHIVE by Violet Marie Strawderman B.A. May 2016, Old Dominion University A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Old Dominion University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS ENGLISH OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY May 2019 Approved by: Drew Lopenzina (Director) Ruth Osorio (Member) Elizabeth J. Vincelette (Member) ABSTRACT SPEAKING FOR THE GROTESQUES: THE HISTORICAL ARTICULATION OF THE DISABLED BODY IN THE ARCHIVE Violet Marie Strawderman Old Dominion University, 2019 Director: Dr. Drew Lopenzina This project examines the ways in which the disabled body is constructed and produced in larger society, via the creation of and interaction with (and through) the archive.