Lisa Wolf | Interviews

Jeff Bowen, Hunter Bell [title of show]

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Northlight Theatre presents [title of show] — the Broadway musical sensation about creating a Broadway musical. The music and lyrics are written by Jeff Bowen, while the book is written by Hunter Bell. [title of show] was conceived by friends Jeff and Hunter during Spring of 2004, when they decided to submit to the New [...]

Frank Galati (The March)

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Tony Award-winning ensemble member Frank Galati returns to Steppenwolf Theatre Company to direct his stage adaptation of THE MARCH, Pulitzer Prize-finalist E.L. Doctorow’s novel about General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Civil War march through Georgia. This marks Galati ’s second stage production of a Doctorow novel, following the highly-acclaimed musical Ragtime. The March is the fourth [...]

Sue Fabisch (Motherhood the Musical)

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MOTHERHOOD THE MUSICAL is written by author and songwriter Sue Fabisch, a mother who understands that sometimes the best way to cope with the joys and trials of motherhood is to share the experience with other moms. Fabisch has the most personal connection with “I’m Danny’s Mom” which she wrote about her own son while [...]

Michael Lomenda, John Gardiner, Preston Truman Boyd, Joseph Leo Bwarie (Jersey Boys)

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JERSEY BOYS are back! Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning Best Musical, Jersey Boys played an incredible run in Chicago from 2007-2010 and continued to break box office records, becoming a resident production after the show opened to rave reviews at the Bank of America Theatre. As a big fan of the show, I was thrilled [...]

David Darlow (Camino Real)

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Tennessee Williams’ CAMINO REAL is running at Goodman Theatre, and is hailed as a “cosmic fantasy…as eloquent and rhythmic as a piece of music.” Camino Real is among the more overtly poetic plays from a writer famous for his psychological realism. The phrase “Camino Real” translates from Spanish as “royal road” but in Williams’ play, [...]

Mark H. Dold, Martin Rayner (Freud’s Last Session)

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FREUD’S LAST SESSION, winner of the 2011 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play, makes its Midwest Premiere at the Mercury Theater. Starring Mark H. Dold as C.S. Lewis and Martin Rayner as Dr. Sigmund Freud, this play is set in Freud’s London office, September 3, 1939. This fictional “meeting of the minds” allows us [...]

BJ Jones (Ten Chimneys)

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Northlight Theatre presents TEN CHIMNEYS by Jeffrey Hatcher, directed by Artistic Director BJ Jones. BJ, a two-time Jeff Award winner, is in his 14th season as Artistic Director of Northlight Theatre. As spoken by BJ, “On June 23, 2008, I took playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and David Ira Goldstein, Artistic Director of the Arizona Theatre Company, [...]

Finn Caldwell (War Horse)

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WAR HORSE, winner of five 2011 Tony Awards including Best Play, will come to Chicago this December as part of the Broadway in Chicago series. War Horse is based on the children’s novel by Michael Morpurgo, who created the story as a reminder of the little-known suffering of horses during World War I. According to [...]

Cindy Gold (Pippin)

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The Music Theatre Company, Highland Park ’s Equity theatre, presents PIPPIN with music and lyrics by the wonderful Stephen Schwartz, directed and choreographed by Founding Artistic Director Jessica Redish. I was thrilled to speak with Jeff Award-winning Cindy Gold, who is playing the role of Berthe. Cindy is also Head of Acting and Associate Professor [...]

Francis Guinan (Time Stands Still)

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Steppenwolf Theatre presents TIME STANDS STILL, which is directed by ensemble member Austin Pendleton and features ensemble member Francis Guinan, who has been a Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1979. Steppenwolf’s 2012 season — “Dispatches from the Homefront” – explores how everyday lives are touched by war. According to Artistic Director Martha Lavey, “our mission is [...]

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