…(and much less train!) Many thanks to Joe Schermoly and Ben Dawson who led the window improvement project in the theater! “What windows?” you ask? The big windows on the east side of our building facing the train tracks. On the inside of the building, those are in our theater space, the one place that […]
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Original Paintings On Stage At Lifeline!
In our Fall MainStage production of The Woman in White, two of our story’s young heroes are artists: one is a highly accomplished painter, the other is his student. Local artist Jessica Brown demonstrated her range in creating both the fine art paintings by the master as well as the amateur efforts of the student. Several […]
Lifeline Welcomes New Production Manager Ben Dawson!
We are overjoyed to announce the hiring of Lifeline’s new production manager, Ben Dawson. Ben comes to us from The Goodman Theatre where he served as Scene Shop Foreman for the past two years. He is also a company member and production manager at Sideshow Theater Company and the technical director at American Theater Company. Ben […]
Survey winners
Each season, we draw the name of one person that filled out our audience surveys to receive a complimentary subscription the following year. Congratulations to Anne Fogarty (KidSeries) and Ann Bradlow (MainStage) for winning this year’s drawing! And thanks to everyone for their patience as the extension of Pride and Prejudice moved the drawing back […]
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 […]