Glenwood Avenue Arts District dominates the Non-Equity Jeff nominations! Not only did Lifeline Theatre receive 13 Jeff nominations this year (the most of any company), but near-neighbors BoHo and Theo Ubique received 11 apiece, making us the three companies who received the most nods. BoHo and Theo Ubique are both on Glenwood Avenue, just a […]
Category: Busman’s Honeymoon
Building & Busman’s
Building update The expert property-condition-assessment guy said our fine old building is in GREAT SHAPE!! Oh, we need a new roof and some tuck pointing — but it’s not urgent yet so we can save up for that! It was so gratifying that he was wowed by how sturdy we are. We’re perfect for a […]
Updates
Season auditions We just had our general auditions for the year and – dang! There is so much sparkly talent in this city. And it just kills me how many people totally rock and we don’t have a darn thing in this particular season that fits them. Makes me want to do more plays. Except that would probably […]
Busman’s Extension and more!
Woohoo! Busman’s Honeymoon is a runaway train — extended thru July 26! This is how many fans Dorothy L. Sayers has: Erica posted a map in the box office and her team is coloring in all the locations we’ve had tickets purchased from — which now totals 19 states, plus Ontario — and, we’ve gone […]
Best. Benefit. EVER!
Lifeline’s annual benefit was held on Thursday, April 16, in the newly refurbished, totally sparkly, mosaic-filled dome room of Preston Bradley Hall in the Chicago Cultural Center. Elegant and totally grown up. To go with our mystery theme (we’re gearing up for Busman’s Honeymoon at Lifeline), Christina adapted a Dorothy L. Sayers short story, The […]
Au revior, Lord Peter
I’m sitting in the darkened theatre. Voices of designers murmur around me. In the black I can see a few blue-tinted faces as they stare intently into their laptops, almost unblinking, their eyes flicking from screen to stage, screen to stage. In front of me I can make out the skeleton outline of our set, […]
An Ensemble Prepares
There has been some discussion in the blogosphere of late on the role of an acting ensemble, lots of debate on that mysterious question of what ensemble members are entitled to expect. From Our perspective, I think we naturally look at each other first as a group of artists we respect, that we want to […]