Since the closing of The 13 Clocks in 2011, puppet-stars Zorn and Saralinda (designed by Chelsea Warren) have been resting quietly in velvety-royal fleece bags in a cozily padded shoebox in Lifeline storage. But St. John’s Episcol Church was casting for their Epiphany Pageant (interweaving the traditional story of the birth of Jesus, the three […]
Welcome to our new interns!
Lifeline welcomes two new interns… Georgia Knapp, who will be with us through June. Georgia was born in England, grew up in Guantanamo Cuba, then lived in Germany for a couple years (where she learned the language) before her family settled in St. Simon’s Island, Georgia. She notes that she was named Georgia long before […]
Anatomy of the Hunger Lobby Display
Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our winter MainStage production of Hunger. Now that I am working on my third production at Lifeline I thought it would be fun to go through the anatomy of the dramaturgical materials in the lobby that are among the production photos of the […]
Seed Hunters: Old World and Brave New World
Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our winter MainStage production of Hunger. The work that the scientists in Hunger are conducting is scientific work that continues today. Portions of the story are flashbacks to the seed gathering trips conducted by Nikolai Vavilov and his students. In many ways Vavilov […]
Ensemble update
Our ensemble members are busy, busy, busy this winter! See below for a short list of just some of the projects our company members are working on right now. You can currently see Patrick performing in A Number with BackStage, and there’s still five more weekends to catch Alan, Jim & Shole‘s contributions to our […]
Hunger and the Siege of Leningrad
Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our winter MainStage production of Hunger. Rehearsals for Hunger started after Thanksgiving and going into other holidays there was plenty of food in the rehearsal room. The abundance of food at our American holidays reminds me how far removed we are from real […]
Openings and Welcomes
How to Survive enters the home stretch! Opening January 8, How to Survive a Fairy Tale was in tech over the holidays. While the rest of us were sipping eggnog, our valiant Fairy Tale team was figuring out how to make a book fly like a bird and other magical acts. This show is especially […]
Science and Politics
Note: This is a guest posting from Maren Robinson, production dramaturg for our winter MainStage production of Hunger. As we are in rehearsal for the upcoming production of Chris Hainsworth’s adaptation of Elise Blackwell’s novel Hunger one of the fascinating aspects of the play are the real people who worked at the Institute of Plant […]
Hunger “In The Works”
Thanks to those who joined us for the first evening of our HUNGER “In The Works” presentation at the Pritzker Pavilion last night! We enjoyed a successful first reading, and great conversation with author Elise Blackwell (Hunger, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish, Grub, and An Unfinished Score) and playwright/Lifeline ensemble member Chris Hainsworth (adaptor […]
Autumn goings-on
THE NEW YORK FREAKIN’ TIMES calls The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! “One of the best children’s shows of the year. Case closed.” Yowza! This adaptation by ensemble member Robert Kauzlaric (from the book by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith) first played at Lifeline in 2007 and has since had productions all over […]