Neil Gaiman’s novel suggests that every city has a city below and each city has a price to pay. As part of our production of Neverwhere, Lifeline is curating “Chicago Below” — an exhibit of images of the Chicago that lives just underneath the glittering parts of the city: the alleys, subways, viaducts and darker […]
Dramaturg Maren Robinson kicks off a series of Neverwhere posts as we approach previews and opening. Note: contains spoilers but strives not to reveal key plot points. There are not many times a dramaturg gets to revisit a play. Having worked on Lifeline’s first production of Neverwhere, I found when we decided to produce the […]
Dramaturg Zev Valancy checked in with scenic designer Joanna Iwanicka about her work for our production of Anna Karenina. ZV: Anna Karenina is a story from a very different era, which nonetheless has real resonances with contemporary society. What about the story (and people working on this adaptation) made you want to design the set? […]
Dramaturg Zev Valancy checked in with actress Ilse Zacharias about preparing to play the role of Anna in our production of Anna Karenina. ZV: Were you familiar with Anna Karenina before you auditioned? What drew you to the character of Anna and made you want to be a part of the production? IZ: I watched the […]
Dramaturg Zev Valancy sat down with Anna Karenina playwright Jessica Wright Buha to talk about her new take on the classic novel. ZV: When did you first read Anna Karenina? What about it spoke to you as something you needed to adapt for Lifeline? JWB: I first read Anna Karenina in January 2016. I was […]
Note: This is a guest posting from Zev Valancy, dramaturg for our Winter MainStage production of Anna Karenina. Count Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy in Russian—“Leo” was chosen for his English publications because “Lev” means “lion”) was born in 1828 on an estate 200 km south of Moscow. After failing to complete a college degree […]
Note: This is a cross-posting from PerformInk’s 3-part INSIDE series, where they’re taking readers behind the scenes of Lifeline’s production of Her Majesty’s Will through blog posts written by the people behind the scenes. By David Blixt Her Majesty’s Will was born because I needed a good laugh. In Spring 2009 I was in Washington […]
Note: This is a guest posting from Annaliese McSweeney, dramaturg for our Summer MainStage production of Her Majesty’s Will. Caution: This blog post may contain spoilers if you are not familiar with the book Her Majesty’s Will by David Blixt. In the blog post Inside Her Majesty’s Will Part One: Adapting the Novel Robert Kauzlaric […]
Note: This is a guest posting from Annaliese McSweeney, dramaturg for our Summer MainStage production of Her Majesty’s Will. In the delightful world created by David Blixt in Her Majesty’s Will, from which Robert Kauzlaric’s play is adapted, the rich and colorful characters stand out among the descriptive writing. Perhaps the reason these characters feel […]
Note: This is a cross-posting from PerformInk’s 3-part INSIDE series, where they’re taking readers behind the scenes of Lifeline’s production of Her Majesty’s Will through blog posts written by the people behind the scenes. By Aly Renee Amidei As a ‘repeat offender’ designer at Lifeline, my biggest costuming challenge is usually the same: Lifeline plays […]