Friday photo rescue

From the new batch of photos for Resurrection Blues, which opens this Sunday, here’s a shot we dubbed Felix vs. the Intercom:

Prop Lobsters (with video)

The script of Resurrection Blues calls for lobsters in scene five, to be eaten by Felix and Emily as the scene opens on them finishing their elegant meal. For a small-budget Non-Equity theatre company, this is a challenge to solve, and our props designer Kim Lyle not only solved it beautifully (with the essential help [...]

Friday photo rescue

A brand new photo, from the theater as we prepare for Resurrection Blues, here’s a shot of Set Designer Steph Charaska’s scenic art in an early stage of the process – there are more photos on the Flickr set, and I’ll put up a full post about these wonderful set pieces soon …

Thoughts on the Resurrection

As difficult as it is, the old saying is true – the show must go on, and for me personally it’s been an important part of the healing process to get back to the work of exploring this challenging and beautiful script. Rehearsals have been going very well this week, and we’re starting to get [...]

First rehearsal

The 2010 Arthur Miller Season officially began last night, with the first rehearsal of Resurrection Blues, scheduled to open (as a Chicago Premiere!) on March 28th at the Greenhouse Theater in Lincoln Park. After two years of celebrating our first decade of playwrights, it was exciting for all of us to return to the “One [...]

First photo from Resurrection Blues

We start rehearsals for the Chicago Premiere of Arthur Miller’s 2002 play Resurrection Blues in just two short days – here’s a sneak peek from this past weekend’s photo shoot – more to come soon …