Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Happy Halloween!!

Check this out. Have fun!

Monday, October 30, 2006

How many of me are there?

Interesting…

HowManyOfMe.com
LogoThere are:
0
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

Friday, October 27, 2006

Approaching 1,000 hits!

Hey guys,

Wow, I know I’m not that committed to blogging as I could be…I go days sometimes without posting (sorry ‘bout that!)
And I know I could be more attentive to other blogs & write comments & stuff (cos ya gotta give to get, of course!)

but I know I don’t. and you don’t have to either.

Just knowing that I’ve been “clicked on” almost 1,000 times is pretty cool. (hmmm…sounds kinda dirty!)
I know lots of peeps that would have 10 times this amount if they were blogging since August like me…but hey, I’m a busy gal!

So what I really mean to say is…thanks for hanging in there with me!

:)

New Jersey and Gay Marriage

Again I ask…

What is everyone so afraid of???

In 30 years we are going to look back & see how much we are discriminating against gays.

For no good reason.

Here’s the latest online.

It’s really a shame that this is called a “victory” by some in the media. It should be a RIGHT. Why was I so privileged to get married to my husband last year? Because I’m straight. That’s why and that’s why it’s called discrimination.

Leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Right Wing Rush

Check this out.

What the hell is wrong with Rush Limbaugh?
Why do people even pay attention to him? Ever?

I have never heard anything of value come out of his mouth. His right wing self is hateful and that’s it. Right wingers are fearful of something and that fear is what provokes this hateful speak.

I guess the Viagra is not making him any happier.

It’s very disturbing to see him in a public setting spouting more ignorance.

yuk.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

365 Plays- Awesome Theatre Festival

So, have any of you heard of this play festival “365”?

Check it out here.

It’s taken Chicago by storm and starts in a few short weeks!

Here’s the idea:
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a play a day for an entire year with the idea that we need to keep art in our lives every single day. She pitched it at the Steppenwolf studio theatre a few months ago and I went to the meeting. 52 theatres in Chicago will each produce a week’s worth of plays from the series= 7 plays.

It’s such a cool idea, to link 52 theatres in Chicago, to work on a collective piece that is bigger than any one play, bigger than any one theatre company. And I’m doubly lucky. I am affiliated with 2 Chicago theatre companies that are participating:
Bailiwick Repertory and
Bohemian Theatre Ensemble

It gets better…

This festival is BIGGER than Chicago even. So far, 14 cities across the US will be participating in this year-long festival which begins November 13, 2006 and ends November 12, 2007.

So cool! I’m so excited!

Here’s the press release:



365 DAYS/365 PLAYS
c/o Next Theatre Company
Noyes Cultural Arts Center office: 847-475-6763
927 Noyes Street fax: 847-475-6767
Evanston, IL 60201 email: info@365chicago.org
www.365chicago.org

Press Contact: Jason Loewith, 847-475-1875 x14

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2006

52 Chicagoland Theaters To Collaborate On
Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays

National Festival With Over 600 Theaters Launches November 13

CHICAGO – A “Hub Council” of seven Chicagoland theaters – Congo Square Theatre, Goodman Theatre, The Hypocrites, Next Theatre Company, Steppenwolf Theatre, Uma Productions and Writer’s Theatre – in association with Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and Producer Bonnie Metzgar announces a diverse roster of 52 local theater companies participating in the year-long world-premiere production of Parks’ 365 Days/365 Plays. The companies, which submitted proposals over the summer, were selected by Parks and Metzgar with the aid of the Hub Council based on the originality of their ideas for the plays, and the diversity of the represented artists and neighborhoods.

Each of the 52 selected companies will present the world premieres of seven short plays by Suzan-Lori Parks – one week’s worth of the festival, in venues and productions of their choosing – in a single week between November 13, 2006 and November 12, 2007. All performances will be free and open to the public. For details and a week-by-week schedule, visit www.365chicago.org.

Suzan-Lori Parks says, “365 Chicago rocks! What a great theatre town and your glorious 365 Hub Council has gathered together such a brilliant and diverse group of participants!”

“This is an extremely dynamic group of companies,” adds Next Theatre’s Jason Loewith, the project’s Executive Producer in Chicago. “From the tiniest storefront to the largest companies in town; from the lake to the western suburbs, from Hyde Park to Lake Forest, nearly every kind of theater artist and theater audience will have an opportunity to participate in this nationwide festival. It’s a wonderful contribution for Chicago to the national theater scene, and an incredible, collaborative gift for the community to share.”

A “Midway Celebration” will be mounted half-way through the festival on Monday, June 18, 2007 at the Claudia Cassidy Theatre in Chicago’s Cultural Center, at which the 26 companies so far represented will each present a single play. Details will be available on the website www.365chicago.org in the spring. Similar plans for a closing celebration are in the works for November 2007.



The selected companies, listed by week of production:

*indicates Hub Council Member


Dog and Pony Theatre Company (11/13/06)
The Gift Theatre Company (11/20/06)
Urban Theatre Company (11/27/06)
Rubicon Theater Company (12/4/06)
Bailiwick Repertory Theatre (12/11/06)
Serendipity Theatre Company (12/18/06)
American Theatre Company (12/25/06)
Artistic Home Theatre Company (1/1/07)
Collaboraction Theatre Company (1/8/07)
Moving Dock Theatre Company (1/15/07)
Teatro Vista (1/22/07)
The Mill Theatre Company (1/29/07)
Raven Theatre (2/5/07)
Piven Theatre Company (2/12/07)
The Neofuturists (2/19/07)
Uma Productions* (2/26/07)
Infamous Commonwealth Theatre (3/5/07)
GroundUp Theatre Company (3/12/07)
Lifeline Theatre (3/19/07)
Soul Theatre Company (3/26/07)
Sansculottes Theatre Company (4/2/07)
The Journeymen (4/9/07)
Court Theatre (4/16/07)
New Branch Theatre Company (4/23/07)
Citadel Theatre Company (4/30/07)
The Goodman Theatre* (5/7/07)
Silk Road Theatre Company (5/14/07)
Estrogen Fest (5/21/07)
Northlight Theatre (5/28/07)
Vitalist Theatre Company (6/4/07)
Fleetwood Jourdain Theatre (6/11/07)
Congo Square Theatre* (6/18/07)
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble (6/25/07)
Sandbox Theatre Project (7/2/07)
Bohemian Theatre Ensemble (7/9/07)
Chicago Dramatists (7/16/07)
500 Clown (7/23/07)
Western Springs Theatre Co. (7/30/07)
The Hypocrites* (8/6/07)
Victory Gardens (8/13/07)
HealthWorks Theatre Company (8/20/07)
Stage Left (8/27/07)
Eclipse Theatre Company (9/3/07)
DMG Productions (9/10/07)
Shattered Globe Theatre (9/17/07)
Adolescent Health Theatre (9/24/07)
MPAACT (10/1/07)
Next Theatre Company* (10/8/07)
Writers Theatre* (10/15/07)
Remy Bumppo Theatre Company (10/22/07)
The Side Project (10/29/07)
Steppenwolf Theatre* (11/5/07)



The National Festival

In November 2002, Pulitzer-winner Parks committed to writing a play a day for the next 365 days. The world premiere of this play cycle will be performed as a yearlong national festival simultaneously in major cities and communities around the country. From November 13, 2006 to November 12, 2007, over 600 theaters in Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Austin, Washington D.C., Minneapolis, the Carolinas, Mississippi River towns, and university campuses will create the largest theater collaboration in U.S. History. The series of brief, brilliant theatre pieces from one of the country’s most innovative voices will be performed in a variety of spaces, fully staged or as readings, representing the dynamism and diverse spirit of theater artists throughout the United States.


Parks says: "One day Bonnie Metzgar asked me 'What's up with those 365 plays?' 'I've done them,' I said. 'Yeah, but now you've got to do them,' Bonnie said. And together we created a production model which would speak to the spirit of my plays: a simultaneous and shared world premiere involving hundreds of theatres around the country."

Saturday, October 21, 2006

YERMA Highly Recommended by The Chicago Reader!

Here's the link.

Yay!
And here's what is says:

YERMA Yerma bemoans her barrenness in every scene of Federico Garcia Lorca's 1934 play, the second in his "blood trilogy." But the script is so emotionally intricate, and this pared Bohemian Theatre Ensemble production so supple, that she holds you in her maniacal grip for the show's entire 85 minutes.

A new translation/adaptation by Thomas J. Samorian and director Peter Robel gives the story a light, unpretentious feel, and a subtly revised ending makes Yerma less terrifying. Yet the play's sense of inexorable tragedy remains. Ultimately Yerma's not about wanting a baby--it's about wanting justice in a world bereft of it.

Kristy Hartsgrove is fluid and passionate, delicate and fierce, as Yerma, and Alanda Coon shines as her earth-mother opposite.

--Laura Molzahn

Through 11/19: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM
Heartland Studio Theater
7016 N. Glenwood
773-791-2393
$18 advance
$20 door

Monday, October 16, 2006

sneezies!



Called in sick today. My allergies have been getting the best of me this past weekend. It's hard to sleep when you can't breathe, ya know?

Hallelujah for sick days.
I slept in this morning and plan to take it easy today.
I'll be taking lots of vitamins, cleaning up the home a bit & unpacking my winter clothes...all activities that are over due. (I still can't believe it SNOWED a few days ago!)

Anyhoo, wish me well & I hope you are all safe from the nasty allergy sneezies!

AaaaaaaCHOOOO!

Wedding Anniversary Numero Uno!



It was one year ago yesterday that we tied the knot.
Boy, Steve is dreamy, isn't he?

I can't believe a year has passed by already & better yet...I can't believe I met him 3 and 1/2 years ago already. He makes time fly by.

I opened YERMA yesterday & Steve came to see it. Afterward, we went to the opening party, sponsored by the lovely Bohemian Theatre Ensemble peeps. We stayed only for a short while so we could go out to dinner.

We chose The SpeakEasy Supper Club & took a photo.

I'm a very lucky woman.

YERMA IS OPEN!

Whew!

Yerma is finally open & we can breathe easy!
So far, we've gotten very positive responses!

Thanks so much to the extremely talented cast & crew!
This is gonna be a very fun run of the show!

Hope you get to see it! :)

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

I think you got a liberal on your hands!

***Your Political Profile:***

Overall: 10% Conservative, 90% Liberal

Social Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?
http://www.blogthings.com/howliberalorconservativeareyouquiz/

Monday, October 09, 2006

My next show: YERMA



Hi guys,

Thought you might like to know why I’ve been so MIA lately. Well, aside from a few others projects, the show I’ve been so busy rehearsing with Bohemian Theatre Ensemble is opening this weekend!

Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca

Federico García Lorca's tragic, dramatic poem in three acts, Yerma ("Barren"), focuses on a woman's intense need to bear a child. It was written in 1934, and first performed the same year.

Alanda Coon as the Pagan Old Woman.

Surrounded by the wise mother of fourteen children, the Pagan Old Woman, her friend Maria and other young women from her village, Yerma is constantly reminded of her barrenness. Set in a small Spanish village, the play examines the passionate and driven heroine, Yerma, and her unhappy marriage to Juan, the cold and selfish shepherd. The presence of Victor, Juan's fellow shepherd and Yerma's childhood friend, also reminds Yerma of the happiness and true love she might have experienced. García Lorca's use of poetic language and ritualistic themes to portray Yerma's struggle to become pregnant recalls the dramatic elements found in the classic Greek tragedies, establishing the playwright and poet as a master of theatrical structure and content. She seeks a magical, spiritual aid in Dolores, who helps infertile women conceive. And the Washerwomen sing a song of the sadness the barren woman experiences. The restless Yerma is in great conflict with the unfeeling and strict overseer, Juan. It is in the final scene at the hermitage, a fertility festival, where Yerma's burning, primal need to bear a child culminates into a scene illuminated with the most beautiful of García Lorca's tragic poetry and lush imagery. The play's essence discloses the unstoppable force within Yerma to fulfill her instinctual desire to have offspring.

The BoHo production of Yerma has been adapted by Executive Producer Thomas J. Samorian and Associate Artistic Director (and production director) Peter Robel.

Yerma opens October 13, 2006 and runs through November 19, 2006
at Heartland Studio Theatre, 7016 North Glenwood in Chicago.

FOR TICKETS TO YERMA, CALL 773-791-2393
For more information on YERMA and Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, please visit their website.
For more info about Alanda Coon, please visit her site.

Um…

Is this a racist quiz?



Alanda Coon --

[adjective]:

Tastes like fried chicken



'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

Friday, October 06, 2006

Foley “Funny”

Oh lord.

I stole this from Alex’s blog

She’s right…it would be very funny if it weren’t so darn frightening!

See it here.

I’m All Rallied Up!

I was supposed to post this last night but, alas, my bed was calling me...




So, there was another rally in downtown Chicago this afternoon.
I found out about it this morning on the way to work. I was actually quite surprised that I didn’t hear about it earlier.

I went during my lunch hour with my boss. He’s a super hip guy that doesn’t really belong in the corporate setting, thus we get along great!

This rally was in protest of the Bush Regime. Hundreds of voices shouted “Drive out the Bush Regime! The World Can’t Wait!”

We heard many speakers but the highlights for me were:
1.) A wonderful & sometimes silly Chicago actor Mike Nussbaum- giving a battle cry to the folks at the rally
And…
2.) Former Weather Underground Member Bernadine Dohrn- she spoke of the violence of torture and the appalling result of last week’s legalization of US torture….the full story is here.

There were all ages & all types at the rally. It was very good to see. I was bummed that I couldn’t participate in the march @ 2pm today as I needed to get back to work but I could hear everything loud & clear from my office. It didn’t have the enormous size of the immigrant rally many months ago but I do believe they were heard. In fact, I’m sure some of the planning was deterred because they only received a permit from Chicago police a few hours ago. Speaking of police, it was very disturbing to see so many policemen there… seemingly not there to PROTECT the protesters but more to KEEP THEM IN LINE…I would say there seemed to be over 100 cops there.

The event was organized by these guys. Very cool.

Many thanks to them for organizing this event. I hope that more and more people will support this effort.
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