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All of these moves are Philo Farnsworth and David Our season will transport puts us in the shoes of an look at how far things have designed to enhance what Sarnoff dreamed about for you with Paul and Julia American journalist doing (haven’t?) come in the fran- you experience here. We that new medium. Now we Child to France in the what she can to get the tic world of breaking news want TimeLine to be a place fast forward a few decades. 1950s. Initially they aimed world to notice a developing and political maneuvering. for people to come together, In Frost/, two different to expose Parisians to the genocide. It’s a powerful, So let’s get started. Wel- feel a sense of community titans clash as they attempt best of America. Little did provocative piece and I hope come back for a glimpse and engage in a dialogue to leverage television for they know that Julia would you’ll be a part of the conver- at what was next for the Dear Friends, about our place in history their own advantage. ultimately do the reverse, sation it sparks this winter. television dreams of through great and thought- igniting a food frenzy in this Welcome to TimeLine’s had everything Finally, we’ll return to our Farnsworth and Sarnoff. provoking theatre. We are country via French cuisine 14th season! The last year to gain when the driven, own backyard for Ben We’re proud to give you the grateful for this recent wave and culture. It’s a foodie has been a tremendous one: media-savvy personal- Hecht and Charles MacAr- Chicago premiere of Peter of success, and we’re eager love story for the ages. We increased subscriptions ity won the prize to be thur’s comedic time capsule, Morgan’s Frost/Nixon. And to keep it going by talking by 50 percent, consistently the first interrogator of From France we will travel The Front Page. Surely much we hope you’ll keep tuning about what’s next. played to sold-out houses, following to Sudan for Winter Miller’s has changed in Chicago in throughout the year. and presented some of the As TimeLine’s Company the president’s resignation. must-see drama In Darfur. politics and journalism since All the best, most critically acclaimed Members discussed plans And Nixon had nothing Inspired by her travels with their days on the beat in work in our history. for this season, we returned left to lose as he clung to The New York Times colum- the 1920s? Or not. Don’t Now we are poised to keep once again to our history- aspirations of regaining a nist Nicholas Kristof, Miller miss this hilarious and dark pushing TimeLine forward. based mission and our sense of prominence and core value of fostering a respectability. 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Peter Morgan Production History

the playwright the story TIMELINE: The Nixon rost/Nixon premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, Presidency “It will be a sort of intellectual Rocky.” FLondon, in August 2006. It moved to Broadway in — Peter Morgan, describing to David Frost his idea for a play about Frost’s interviews 2007. Both productions starred Frank Langella as former November 5, 1968 Richard with former President Richard Nixon president Richard Nixon and Michael Sheen as broad- Nixon is elected the 37th presi- caster David Frost. The actors reprised their roles for the dent of the U.S. with only 43.4 eter Morgan was Boleyn Girl. Frost/Nixon film, which was released in December 2008 and directed percent of the popular vote. Pborn April 10, 1963, in was Morgan’s first stage by Ron Howard. A national tour starring Stacy Keach January 20, 1969 Nixon is London, England. He holds play; he also wrote the as Nixon and Alan Cox as Frost played in Los Angeles, inaugurated. a degree in fine arts from screenplay for the film. Sacramento, Seattle, Cincinnati, Houston, Boston, Dallas May 12, 1969 the University of Leeds. He was nominated for an Peter Morgan. and Washington, D.C. Productions also have been staged aides install wiretaps after a Morgan is the author of nu- Academy Award for the in Memphis and Boca Raton, Fla. leak about the secret bombing merous screenplays. With screenplays of Frost/Nixon program Longford. He won of Cambodia results in an article in The New York Times. David Frears he has written and The Queen. He also has a Golden Globe award for (Left) Poster image from the original Donmar Warehouse production of July 23, 1970 Nixon The Deal and The Queen. been nominated for numer- The Queen. He wrote the Frost/Nixon, 2006. For television, he wrote ous other screenwriting screenplay for the upcom- approves the Huston Plan, (Below) Michael Sheen and Frank which widely expands intel- Mickey Love, The Jury and awards. He won British ing Hereafter and co-wrote Langella as Frost and Nixon. ligence gathering. He rescinds Longford. For film, he wrote Academy of Film and the screenplay for the soon- it five days later. Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel Television Arts awards for to-be-filmed Tinker, Tailor, June 13, 1971 The New York and Laurence; The Last King the movie The Last King of Soldier, Spy with John le Times publishes the Pentagon of Scotland; and The Other Scotland and the television Carré, the novel’s author. Papers, a leaked government report that further erodes sup- port of the . February 21-28, 1972 Nixon travels to the People’s Republic of China for talks Richard M. Nixon with , chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. the president May 22-29, 1972 Nixon visits the Soviet Union for talks with helves have been shadowed by his abuses Though Nixon excelled in , the general dedicated to books on of presidential power and school, he was a loner. He secretary of the Central Com- S mittee of the Communist Party. Richard Milhous Nixon and the scandal relating to the lost his campaign to be Their talks lead to the signing of his presidency. His life and break-in at the Democratic senior class president of his the Strategic Arms Limitation presidency are marked by National Committee head- high school. He had scholar- Treaty (SALT), the first pact to great contrasts. He rose in quarters in the Watergate ships to Yale and Harvard limit nuclear weapons. politics by capitalizing on building. Nixon resigned universities but enrolled at June 17, 1972 Five men fears of communism, yet during the scandal; he was nearby Whittier College be- — James McCord Jr., a former his great foreign-policy the first president to resign cause of the family’s limited CIA agent, and Cuban-Ameri- successes as president were from office. His reputation finances. He was a debater, cans Bernard Barker, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martinez opening relations with the never fully recovered. actor and football player. and Virgilio Gonzalez — are People’s Republic of China After graduating from Whit- Nixon was born Jan. 9, 1913, arrested breaking in to the and the Soviet Union during tier in 1934, he went to the Democratic National Commit- in Yorba Linda, Calif., to the . However, Duke University School of tee (DNC) headquarters in the working-class parents Harold these successes are over- Law and became the Duke Watergate building. and . June 20, 1972 Nixon discusses the arrests with H.R. Haldeman, his chief of Bar Association president. political career. He did not “I have never been a quitter. To leave office staff. Later, it is discovered Although he graduated run for president in 1964; before my term is completed is abhorrent to 18½ minutes of the tape of this third in his class in 1937, he instead he campaigned every instinct in my body, but as president, conversation is erased. was rejected by East Coast for Republican candidates I must put the interest of America first.” September 15, 1972 A law firms and went to work nationwide. By the time he federal grand jury indicts G. — Richard Nixon’s resignation speech, Aug. 8, 1974 at a law firm in Whittier. announced his candidacy Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt, for president in 1968, most both part of the White House At this time, he began ers paid hush money to the over the scandal. On July Plumbers Unit (an internal Republican candidates pursuing Thelma Catherine Watergate burglars. 24, the U.S. Supreme Court group created to investigate owed him a favor, and he and stop leaks), and the five Ryan, known as Pat. It ordered Nixon to turn over Richard and , circa 1977. won the nomination. Nixon The details of Watergate un- Watergate burglars. was a two-and-a-half year the tapes. Later that month, portrayed himself as the raveled in newspapers, par- courtship and they married the House Judiciary Commit- November 7, 1972 Nixon is Nixon gave a televised candidate of stability and ticularly The Washington Post, re-elected president with 60.8 June 21, 1940. They had two tee passed three articles of speech to try to rehabilitate beat Democratic candidate and on national television percent of the popular vote. daughters: Patricia (Tricia), impeachment, including ob- his image. He listed the Hubert Humphrey by ap- during the Senate Watergate January 1973 Guilty pleas born Feb. 21, 1946, and Julie, struction of justice, abuse of family debts and income proximately 500,000 votes. hearings. On March 23, 1973, are entered by the five men born July 5, 1948. power and violating his presi- but stated that the one item James McCord Jr., one of the who broke into the DNC In 1972, running against Sen. dential oath. Nixon resigned offices. Liddy and Hunt are When the Republicans he intended to keep was five Watergate burglars, im- George McGovern of South on Aug. 8, 1974, rather than tried for their involvement and asked Nixon to run for the the cocker spaniel that his plicated the White House in Dakota, Nixon was re-elect- face impeachment proceed- found guilty. U.S. House of Representa- daughter Tricia had named the cover-up. On July 16, Al- ed by a landslide. ings in Congress. March 21, 1973 Nixon and tives in 1946, he seized on Checkers. The speech came exander Butterfield, Nixon’s John Dean, the White House the growing fear of Commu- to be known as the Check- Despite his administration’s deputy assistant, revealed Pat Nixon died on June counsel, discuss the continued nism as part of his campaign ers speech and succeeded in numerous policy successes, that the Oval Office had a 23, 1993, of lung cancer; silence of the burglars, hush against the incumbent bringing him back from the Nixon’s presidency always taping system. On July 23, a lifelong smoker, she money and clemency. Hunt’s Democrat, Jeremiah “Jerry” brink of scandal. will be marred by the events special prosecutor Archibald never permitted anyone to attorney receives $75,000 later that day. Voorhis. The tactics were surrounding the cover-up of Cox subpoenaed the tapes. photograph her smoking. After two terms as vice presi- successful, and as the fresh- the June 17, 1972, break-in Two days later, Nixon refused Richard Nixon died on April April 15, 1973 Nixon dent, Nixon unsuccessully announces the resignations man Congressman from of the Democratic National to surrender them. On April 22, 1994, four days after suf- ran against of Haldeman, Chief Domestic , he sat on the Committee headquarters. 29, 1974, Nixon addressed fering a stroke. Sen. John F. Kennedy for Advisor John D. Erlichman House Committee on Un- the nation on television and and Attorney General Richard president. In 1960, they par- There is no evidence Nixon This is an edited version of a American Activities. offered to release edited Kleindienst. Dean’s dismissal ticipated in the first televised authorized the break-in. longer article, which you can transcripts of the tapes, but also is announced. In 1950 he ran successfully presidential debates. Those However, six days after find in our Study Guide at he misjudged the American May 17, 1973 The Senate for the U.S. Senate, again who listened to the debate five men were arrested he timelinetheatre.com. public, which was incensed Watergate Committee begins painting his opponent as on radio thought Nixon won, approved Chief of Staff H.R. televised hearings. soft on Communism. while those who watched Haldeman’s plan to make it Chief Domestic Advisor John D. Ehrlichman (from left), Chief of Staff H.R. May 18, 1973 Archibald Cox the debate on television appear to FBI investigators In 1952, Nixon was tapped Haldeman and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger with Nixon in 1971. is named the special prosecu- thought Kennedy won. It was that the break-in had been to be Dwight Eisenhower’s tor for any legal issues related the beginning of a new era authorized by the CIA, and to Watergate. vice-presidential run- for the role television would to have the CIA pressure the ning mate. He was almost June 1973 Dean testifies play in presidential politics. FBI to stop its investigation. before the Senate Watergate dropped from the ticket The president’s personal Committee and accuses the when he was accused of In 1962, Nixon ran for gover- attorney, Herbert Kalmbach, president of being involved in having a private campaign nor of California and lost. It the cover-up. and other campaign advis- fund for personal use. seemed to be the end of his David Frost July 18, 1973 The presidential the interviewer taping system is dismantled. July 23, 1973 Cox subpoenas the recordings of nine presi- avid Paradine Frost Granta and part of the com- At the time of the interviews, dential meetings. Dwas born April 7, 1939, edy troupe Footlights. in Tenterden, England. He he was perhaps best known as a July 25, 1973 Nixon refuses As Footlights had for many to turn over the recordings, was the only son of a poor of its members, Frost’s talk-show host and not thought citing executive privilege. Methodist minister, the work with the group helped August 29, 1973 Judge Rev. W.J. Paradine Frost, of as a serious journalist. launch him into television. John J. Sirica, chief judge for and his wife, Mona, born He worked for ITV region- the U.S. District Court for the after two sisters. time of the interviews, he In his personal life, Frost District of Columbia, rules the ally before 1962, when he was perhaps best known was known for liaisons president must surrender the Frost went to Gillingham became the host of the as a talk-show host and with beautiful and famous tapes. The White House says it Preparatory School, then satiric television program not thought of as a seri- women. He also is known for will appeal. Wellingborough Grammar That Was The Week That ous journalist. However, remaining friendly with past October 10, 1973 Vice School, both state-funded Was on BBC. Though the he had done substantive girlfriends. He dated actress President Spiro Agnew resigns after admitting to unrelated schools. He was religious BBC pulled the contentious David Frost featured on the cover of interviews with a variety Janette Scott, who ended tax-evasion charges. and preached occasionally but successful show less People magazine, May 1977. of world and American po- her relationship with Frost for his father and at other than a year later, TW3, as litical figures. For example, to marry singer Mel Tormé; October 12, 1973 The U.S. Methodist churches. He it was known, launched an author, speaker, televi- he interviewed the 1968 singer and actress Diahnn Court of Appeals rules the was an avid football and Frost’s career. sion and film producer and White House must turn over the presidential candidates Carroll; and socialite Caro- tapes. Nixon names Rep. Gerald cricket player; he regularly co-founder of two British He then hosted a series of for American television: line Cushing. He married R. Ford of Michigan, House mi- played with his staff and television networks, LWT television programs, includ- Robert Kennedy, Richard actress Lynne Frederick, the nority leader, as vice president. at charity events after he and TV-am. ing the satiric The Frost Nixon and George Wallace. widow of Peter Sellers, in October 20, 1973 Nixon became famous. He was Report (which featured a In addition to Richard Nixon, However, questions he put 1981; they divorced the next orders Attorney General Elliot awarded a scholarship to young John Cleese, later a during his career Frost to the candidates such as year. He married Lady Carina Richardson to fireC ox. He Gonville and Caius College refuses and resigns. William member of Monty Python’s has interviewed six other “What is a distinguishing Fitzalan-Howard March 19, at Cambridge University. Ruckelshaus, the deputy at- Flying Circus) and The presidents: , American characteristic?” 1983; they have three sons. torney general, also refuses and “What is the root While at Cambridge, Frost Frost Programme, where Jimmy Carter, Ronald Rea- Frost was appointed to and resigns. Robert Bork, the of the American mal- solicitor general, becomes the was more active in extra- he became known as an gan, George H.W. Bush, Bill the Order of the British aise?” may not have been acting head of the Justice De- curricular activities than in interviewer of famous and Clinton and George W. Bush. Empire in 1970. He was perceived as sufficiently partment and carries out the his studies. He was editor sometimes controversial He also has interviewed the knighted in 1993, becoming order. This becomes known as hard-hitting. of the literary magazine individuals. He also had eight most recent British Sir David Frost. the . television programs in the prime ministers: Harold Wil- October 23, 1973 Twenty- David Frost, age 9. and Australia. son, Edward Heath, James two bills are introduced in Con- Interviewing HRH Prince Charles, circa 1969. Callaghan, Margaret Thatch- gress calling for an impeach- He won two Emmys for the er, John Major, Tony Blair ment investigation. David Frost Show, in 1970 and both Gordon Brown and 1971, and the BAFTA November 1, 1973 Leon and David Cameron when Jaworski is named the new Fellowship. Between 1993 they were still Members of special prosecutor. and 2005, he had a BBC cur- Parliament. November 3, 1973 Fred rent-events program called Buzhardt, Special White House . In the U.S., Frost remains Counsel for Watergate Matters, best-known for his 1977 and Leonard Garment, acting Frost is not just a television interviews of former counsel to the president, recom- interviewer, though: He is President Nixon. At the mend to Nixon that he resign. Frost vs. Nixon Reston, Brennan and Caroline November 21, 1973 White House attorneys disclose that the interviews the others 18½ minutes on the June 20, 1972 tape is missing. eginning March 23, 1977, James Reston, Jr. March 1, 1974 The federal David Frost sat down James Reston, Jr., was born in 1941 in New York City and raised B grand jury indicts seven men in and interviewed former Presi- in Washington, D.C. He attended the University of North Caroli- the cover-up: Haldeman; Erlich- dent Richard Nixon for 28 na in Chapel Hill and received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. man; John Mitchell, a former hours over 12 days held over He was an assistant to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Stewart attorney general and the head four weeks. It was agreed Udall from 1964-1965 and in the U.S. Army from 1965-1968. His of Nixon’s re-election commit- tee; Robert Mardian, former the interviews would cover father, who was a journalist at The New York Times, was on Presi- assistant attorney general and domestic and foreign policy, dent Richard Nixon’s enemies’ list. A writer and historian, he has counsel for the committee to the Watergate break in and written numerous books and articles for national magazines. In re-elect the president; Charles subsequent investigation and 1976, when David Frost asked him to join his team preparing for Colson, a former special coun- Nixon the man. These would the Nixon interviews, Reston was working on a novel and teach- sel for Nixon; Gordon Strachan, an aide to Haldeman; and be edited into four programs. ing creative writing. His book The Conviction of Richard Nixon: Kenneth Parkinson, counsel The Watergate segment, The Untold Story of the Frost/Nixon Interviews is his account of to the re-election committee. David Frost interviews Richard Nixon, 1977. which aired May 4, 1977, drew the events surrounding the interviews based on his journals, Nixon is named an un-indicted co-conspirator, although this is the largest world audience which were also used by Peter Morgan in writing Frost/Nixon. during the day and receive a Frost retained complete edi- kept secret. for a news interview. It was call when filming was finished torial control, questions also watched by 45 million Ameri- April 29, 1974 Nixon and they could return. The circled about Nixon profiting John “Jack” Vincent Brennan was born Aug. 16, 1937. He appears on television and an- cans and remains to this day Frost and Nixon teams used from the interview. Nixon graduated from in in 1959. A nounces he will turn over the the largest audience for a edited transcripts and make the entire home while they was paid $600,000 plus 20 Marine, he saw combat in Vietnam and was awarded a Bronze political interview. them public; he does so the were there. For example, percent of the profit. Frost Star and the after the battle for Khe Sanh. He became an aide to President Nixon in 1968. He accompanied following day, but still refuses The interviews could not take Nixon ate by himself in the was criticized for checkbook to turn over the tapes subpoe- place in Nixon’s home in San master bedroom, and the journalism, though NBC Nixon on his historic visit to the People’s Republic of China naed by the special prosecutor. in 1972, and he was on the helicopter that took the Nixon Clemente, Calif., because Nixon team prepped in the had offered $300,000 to be June 10-19, 1974 Nixon family to San Clemente after Nixon’s resignation. Brennan the transmissions from a den. The Smiths still live in able to interview the former visits the Middle East. nearby U.S. Coast Guard house. president before dropping was Nixon’s chief of staff during the time of the Frost/Nixon interviews. He retired as a Marine . June 25-July 3, 1974 Nixon station interfered with the out of the bidding. To add to attends a summit meeting in The Frost/Nixon interviews film equipment.I nstead, the difficulties, none of the the Soviet Union. were not without controver- Caroline Cushing they were held in the home major U.S. networks wanted sy. Some questioned whether Caroline Cushing was born in Ascot but attended Swiss board- July 24, 1974 The U.S. Su- of Republicans Martha Lea to buy the interviews. Frost preme Court rules unanimous- an Englishman had sufficient ing schools. The former wife of socialite Howard Cushing, she and Harold Smith, in nearby had to sell the programs to ly that the president must turn understanding of and interest was instrumental in securing financial backers for the Frost/ Dana Point. The couple was individual television stations, over all 64 tapes. in American politics to be a Nixon interviews — she had been dating Frost for several compensated for the use of find financial backers and find July 27-July 30, 1974 The good interviewer. Although years at the time. She described her first date with Frost as fly- their home. They would leave half the advertisers. ing to Zaire for the George Foreman-Muhammad Ali fight now House Judiciary Commit- tee passes three articles of known as “The Rumble in the Jungle,” where Frost was going impeachment, including ob- “Richard Nixon has had the last laugh in his long and bitter to host the fight.T heir relationship ended after the interviews struction of justice and abuse and Cushing remained in California. In Los Angeles, she wrote of power. feud with the press. By selling his story of his presidency for the Herald Examiner and later worked as editor of a variety August 9, 1974 Nixon and its disastrous end to David Frost and friends he has of periodicals including Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk resigns. Vice President Gerald magazine. She is the co-founder of C4 Consulting, a marketing Ford is sworn in as president. rejected the news business in favor of show business.” and media relations firm.S he remains good friends with Frost —Charles B. Seib in The Washington Post after the Frost/Nixon Interviews were announced and his wife. She is now married to Bill Graham, the son of the late Katherine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post. Mike Tutaj the interview TimeLine Associate Artist Mike Tutaj has designed technologies really gets me someone when there’s a TV televised image. Our two video or projections for numerous productions at thinking in new ways and with a music video on right eponymous characters have TimeLine, including The Farnsworth Invention, The His- inspires me. behind them! very different relationships tory Boys, Tesla’s Letters, Fiorello!, This Happy Breed and with the medium and how (PJP) I know you always Apart from the visual Martin Furey’s Shot. He returns again to design projec- it has shaped their public walk a fine line between distraction, there is also the tions and, for the first time at TimeLine, live video for images. So with that in mind adding visual elements that issue of intellectual distrac- Frost/Nixon. During the rehearsal process, TimeLine director Louis Contey and I complement and enhance tion. Projection designs are Artistic Director PJ Powers (PJP) interviewed Mike agreed that the magnified the storytelling, and not not always an omnipresent (MT) about his busy career and his work at TimeLine. images of Nixon and Frost overpowering the story or element in production. So would do well in connect- (PJP) So how long have directly into a video design, detailing media elements the actors on stage. How do when they appear, are they ing with the you been doing video and so I think my background into their plays. We are you find the right balance? understood and seamless, larger-than-life significance projections for theatre, and in sound is a real strength seeing directors who are and do they establish a trust (MT) It’s really the goal of and stakes of these histori- how did you start doing it? in creating the design that I stretching the possibilities with the audience in terms the entire design team to cal interviews. So we mean It’s not what you studied in hope to realize. of their vision by having ex- of rules and function? college, correct? perience with the new tools create a cohesive process to utilize two cameras —one (PJP) Video imagery is be- of theatre, and audiences for delivering the story. This speaks to a larger chal- on each of them — like in (MT) I studied music at De- coming a much bigger part that have an expectation of That’s the reason, after all, lenge of projection design. the original interviews. Paul University, with a focus of many theatre produc- what they know it can do. that we are creating live Projections can serve many There will be a bank of tele- on sound recording. After tions, and now many college theatre. Anything that takes roles in the context of a play. vision monitors on each side graduating, I found myself theatre programs are even (PJP) One of the first shows away from the story or They can be digital scenery, of the set so the audience more and more drawn to- starting to add majors in you did here, Martin’s breaks the audience connec- they can create lighting ef- can see each man’s reac- ward theatre and was able to this field. Why do you think Furey’s Shot, used a ton tion with the world we’re fects or special effects, they tions magnified, and one translate my knowledge of there is a growing trend of old slide projectors to creating is a detriment. With can interact with the actors larger screen upstage, which audio, accoustics, technol- toward video use in plays? achieve your design. That projections and media it’s as would another character, represents the editorial of ogy and music into design- was just five years ago. How (MT) It’s a number of fac- easy to distract. Try to en- or they can supplement the broadcasters. We’re ing sound for the stage. has the field — and technol- tors. Certainly the more that gage in a conversation with gaps in the narrative. If also using projections to ogy — changed your work? My first video design theatre artists learn about the function of the media show select other television was in 2002, for Barrel of what this design element (MT) Yeah. I still think about elements isn’t clear, it can moments for each man that Projections were an integral part of be just as distracting to the appear in the script. Monkeys, an educational can do, the more comfort- that show and shake my the design of Tesla’s Letters (2007). audience as a flashy video theatre company of which able they are to introduce to head at how we pulled that (PJP) What are the benefits during a quiet moment. I’m a member. The move their own project, and the off. That show was such and challenges of designing to video/projection design more they come to rely on a learning experience for (PJP) Right now we’re in in TimeLine’s space? seemed pretty smooth, as I it. This too goes for audienc- me in terms of having to rehearsal for Frost/Nixon, (MT) The size of the space was able to parlay my skills es. Video and multimedia embrace the technology and I know you’re still toy- is at once TimeLine’s best in sound design into the are growing omnipresent in that we have to create the ing with how video will play asset and biggest challenge. visual realm. Both disci- the modern human experi- design I’m imagining. And out in the show. Knowing I’m constantly amazed at plines are achieved through ence, and it stands to reason this is true of every aspect that things may still change the scale of the shows that sequencing and blending that art created in this time of design — as technology before opening night, can have gone into this space, elements that color the would not only reflect this, progresses, we all have to you talk about your plans? scene and help in telling but also utilize it as a means relearn our craft with new while maintaining the inti- the story, just through dif- of communicating a story tools making things possible (MT) One of the critical macy and proximity to the ferent senses. Though, so or emotion. We’re seeing that were impossible only a aspects that this play ad- action on stage. Of course, often, audio is incorporated playwrights who are now few years ago. Learning new dresses is the power of the a space this size limits the Benefits of Being a TimeLine Donor BACKSTORY: backstage THE CREDITS number and placement of sequences with the actors (MT) Indeed I’ve been n grateful appreciation of artists, staff and other Dramaturgy & Historical instruments, but it keeps and helping to create video keeping busy, working on Ithe generous support of TimeLine enthusiasts over Research by Maren Robinson the productions agile and installations for the adapted 12-15 shows a year. I’ve our donors, TimeLine invites hors d’oeuvres and drinks. creative as we find ways to lobby space. I also particu- been really fortunate to our supporters behind-the- Written by Maren Robinson, Private Play Reading Event PJ Powers, Lydia Swift and use the space. larly enjoyed The History have worked with so many scenes for special events Monday, January 31 Lara Goetsch Boys as I was able to inject talented artists in the last and opportunities to con- (PJP) What have been some Exclusively for donors giving the video sequences with few years. It’s really keeping nect with artists, Company Edited by Karen A. Callaway of your favorite shows to $750 or more — Be among much of my own humor and myself busy working with Members and staff. & Lara Goetsch work on at TimeLine? the select few to experience personality. And I’ll just add these folks that helps me to Photography by Lara Goetsch Dine with the the reading of a play under (MT) The process for each that while I didn’t work on continue to shape my design Artistic Director consideration for next Graphic Design by show tends to be vastly it, I particularly loved Not skills. So you, and those who Exclusively for donors of season. TimeLine Company Lara Goetsch different, and I like that. Enough Air. I mean, while know me, can imagine what $10,000 or more — A private members will be on hand The first showI did at we’re talking about favorite a big deal it was for me to Frost/Nixon Photo by dining experience with Ar- at the conclusion of the Ryan Robinson TimeLine was This Happy TimeLine shows! slow down and take so much tistic Director PJ Powers. performance to answer your Breed in 2004. 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Frost/Nixon the play

August 21 - October 10, 2010 August 2010 previews 8/17 - 8/20 Su M T W Th F Sa 23 24 17 18 19 20 21 by PETER MORGAN Production Team 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 directed by LOUIS CONTEY Keith Pitts, U.S.A.: 29 30 31 Scenic Designer Chicago Premiere! Three S eptember 2010 years after the Watergate Alex Wren Meadows: scandal ended his presi- Costume Designer Su M T W Th F Sa dency, Richard Nixon has Keith Parham, U.S.A.: 1 2 3 4 agreed to break his silence Lighting Designer 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 in a series of interviews Andrew Hansen: 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 with up-and-coming British Sound Designer broadcaster David Frost. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Behind-the-scenes it’s a Mike Tutaj: battle of egos for the upper Projections Designer 26 27 28 29 30 hand in controlling history, Julia Eberhardt: october 2010 but as the cameras roll, the Properties Designer world is riveted by a remark- Maren Robinson: Dramaturg Su M T W Th F Sa ably honest exchange Cheney Tardio: Stage Manager 1 2 between one man who has 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lost everything and another John Kearns: with everything to gain. Production Manager 10 Those designers and scenic Cast artists identified by U.S.A. Regular Performance Matthew Brumlow** are members of United Scenic Preview Performance Don Bender Artists, IATSE Local 829, Opening Night Sold Out Andrew Carter AFL-CIO Post-Show Discussion with cast Dennis Grimes & production crew Free Terry Hamilton Sunday Scholars a one-hour Michael Kingston post-show panel discussion with Beth Lacke experts on the themes and issues of the play Free Ian Maxwell Company Member Discussion David Parkes a conversation with TimeLine’s Jessica Thigpen Company members Free **Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Show times previews 8 pm union of professional actors OPENING NIGHT 7 PM and stage managers. Wednesdays & Thursdays 7:30 pm fridays 8 pm saturdays 4 pm & 8 pm sundays 2 pm