Theatre and Interpretation Center at Northwestern University
2012/13 SEASON
Sub PricingTO And Benefits Page WELCOME THESub 2012/13 SEASON! Welcome to our 2012/13 Mainstage Season! Featuring award-winning Chicago directors Bill Brown and Peter Sullivan; acclaimed Northwestern alumnae Jess McLeod and Cat Miller; the best of British theatre here in Evanston; the Imagine U Family Series; and our own talented faculty and students, we are thrilled to showcase these ambitious artists and programs in our 32nd season.
Exclusive Subscriber Benefits Subscribers to our 2012/13 season may select from two different packages: a traditional 7-Play subscription and a 5-Play Flex pass. Both packages include many exclusive benefits that are not available to the general public. We hope you will subscribe today and we look forward to sharing our season with you!
7-Play Subscription
5-Play Flex-Pass
• Savings of 20% off single ticket prices.
• Savings of 10% off single ticket prices.
• $2 discount on additional single tickets for all seven subscription productions.*
• The flexibility to choose your dates and plays later.
• Guaranteed seats to all mainstage productions.
• Invitations to behind-the-scenes events and staged readings.
• Access to the best seats in the house. • Complimentary tickets to the film screening of The Pajama Game (reservations required).
• First opportunity to purchase tickets to WAA-MU 2013 before they go on sale to the public.
• Complimentary tickets to the MFA Collaborations Series productions (titles, dates and times to be announced). • Invitations to behind-the-scenes events and staged readings. • First opportunity to purchase tickets to WAA-MU 2013 before they go on sale to the public.
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*Single tickets for 2012/13 Mainstage shows will go on sale September 6.
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Don’t miss the 82nd annual Waa-Mu show production, directed by David H. Bell! As a special subscriber benefit, you may order tickets now with your subscription and guarantee access to the best seats in the house before single tickets go on sale later this fall!
May 3-12 Cahn Auditorium
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*On Sat, 5/11, there will be a show at 2pm and 8pm. Jesse Grider in Waa-Mu 2012: Off The Map, photo by www.JustinBarbin.com.
The Verona Project A NEW MUSICAL
Written and directed by Amanda Dehnert
American Music Theatre Project
Award-winning writer/director Amanda Dehnert’s new musical The Verona Project is an electric hybrid of theatre and live concert infused with original indie-folk-rock music. A modern fable inspired by Shakespeare’s first comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona, the show takes an honest look at surviving love, loss and the road to adulthood. Seen through the eyes of a group of young musicians, The Verona Project explores the journeys we all take and the people we eventually become.
October 19 - November 4 Josephine Louis Theater THU 10/25 FRI 10/26 SAT 10/27 SUN 10/28 THU 11/1
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The Verona Project is made possible, in part, by the generous support of the Alumnae of Northwestern, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s National Fund For New Musicals.
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Dan Clegg and Arwen Anderson in The Verona Project (2011, California Shakespeare Theater), Photo by Kevin Berne.
You Can’t Take It With You By George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart Directed by William Brown
A quirky, colorful play written by comedy masters Kaufman and Hart, You Can’t Take It With You follows the happily dysfunctional and perfectly mad Sycamore family. When Tony Kirby, Alice Sycamore’s handsome fiancé, and his straight-laced, overly-conservative parents come to the Sycamore household for dinner on the wrong night, the house immediately explodes with zany mayhem and chaotic hilarity. Directed by Jeff Award-winner William Brown, this endearingly eccentric play reminds us that money isn’t everything.
November 9-18 Ethel M. Barber Theater
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Tyler Stoltenberg and Sarah Mayhan in Holiday (2007), photo by Tommy Giglio.
Nickel And Dimed
By Joan Holden Based on Nickel and Dimed, On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich Directed by Jess McLeod
Based on the best-selling novel by noted author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed is a piercing examination of the effects of bottom-line and welfare reform on working-class America. Following the character of Ehrenreich as she travels across America to document the struggles of low-wage workers, she takes on jobs as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aid and store clerk. Her accounts of the realities of minimum wage survival earned her praise from the New York Times as “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism.�
February 1-10 Josephine Louis Theater
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*Added student matinee on Fri, 2/8 at 10am. Jacqueline Jarrold in Spinning into Butter (2011), photo by Andrew Campbell.
The Pajama Game Music & Lyrics by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross Book by George Abbott & Richard Bissell Directed by Peter Sullivan
Based on the novel 7 ½ Cents by Richard Bissell, with a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, and directed by Marriott Theatre artistic associate Peter Sullivan, The Pajama Game centers around the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory where the workers’ demands for a seven-and-a-half cent raise is being ignored. In the midst of a potential strike, Babe, the leader of the Union Grievance Committee, and Sid, the handsome new factory superintendent fall in love. Can Babe and Sid set aside their differences in order to make their relationship work, or will being on opposite sides of the fence lead to their demise? PLUS, DON’T MISS … Join TIC for a one-night-only film screening of the 1957 award-winning classic, The Pajama Game, starring Doris Day, John Raitt and Carol Haney on Mon, Feb 18, 7pm, in our Ethel M. Barber Theater. This screening is free to 7-play subscribers with advance reservations!
February 15 - March 3 Ethel M. Barber Theater
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Marie Semla and Michael Medford in Brighton Beach Memoirs (2011), photo by Andrew Campbell.
Occupy Dance 2013 Artistic Director: Annie Beserra
Occupy Dance 2013 reveals the power of a community coming together to overcome obstacles and celebrate common goals. Through dance and text, choreographers take on the complex issue of poverty. Who is impoverished and what does that mean? How does poverty affect individuals and how does it affect the community at large? What fantasies and myths have our fears of poverty produced? Under the artistic direction of award-winning Northwestern University dance faculty Annie Beserra, Occupy Dance 2013 explores these timely topics through various dance forms including dance theatre, contact improvisation, Jump Rhythm Jazz and hip hop.
March 1-10 Josephine Louis Theater
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Britt Banaszynski in Danceworks 2012, photo by www.Justin Barbin.com.
The Exonerated By Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen Directed by Cat Miller Co-Produced with Next Theatre Company Presented in partnership with The Center on Wrongful Convictions
Based on real interviews conducted by playwrights Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, The Exonerated follows six former Death Row prisoners whose convictions were reversed. From their trials to their incarcerations to their eventual releases, this award-winning play uses the words of these innocent men and women as they share the stories of everything and everyone that they lost when they were wrongly convicted, as well as the lives they are working to rebuild. The inaugural collaboration between TIC and Next Theatre Company, The Exonerated will be staged at TIC in partnership with The Center on Wrongful Convictions and will feature a cast of professional and student artists working together on this exploration of the criminal justice system.
April 19 - May 5 Josephine Louis Theater
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*All proceeds from single ticket sales for the Fri, 4/19 This program is partially sponsored by a grant from the Evanston Community Foundation. This production is supported in part by a grant from the Alumnae of Northwestern. performance will benefit The Center on Wrongful Convictions. Austin James and JJ Phillips in The States of America: The Regina Taylor Project (2010), photo by Andrew Campbell.
How To End Poverty In 90 Minutes (with 199 people you may or may not know) Conceived and directed by Michael Rohd
How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes invites a different audience at every show to explore the question: how do you attack the problem of poverty in America? Over the course of 90 minutes, the audience will be witness, investigator and, ultimately, agent of choice. The choice — how to spend $1,000 in cash from ticket sales, which will sit onstage, waiting to be put to use. The show is an experiment in dialogue, in collective decision-making, in shared responsibility and in the potential (real or imagined) for art to help us make our world a better place. Spectacularly eclectic in form, at times epically presentational and at times playfully participatory, often delightful and occasionally uncomfortable, How To End Poverty will engage student and Chicago-area audiences alongside community experts. Come spend with us.
May 15-23 Ethel M. Barber Theater WED 5/15 THU 5/16 FRI 5/17 SAT 5/18 SUN 5/19 TUE 5/21 WED 5/22 THU 5/23 FRI 5/24 SAT 5/25
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This production is supported in part by a grant the Alumnae of Northwestern. Partially supported by a grant from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Committee at Northwestern University. Supported by an Innovations grant from the Northwestern University School of Communications. Ned Baker in The Little Prince (2012), photo by www.Justin Barbin.com.
Family Series A family series recommended for children ages 5-10 and their families!
Junie B. Jones in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells By Allison Gregory Based on the Junie B. Jones books by Barbara Park Directed by Henry Godinez
Junie B. loves Christmas. A lot. She loves the presents, elf costumes, presents, Santa and, of course, presents. Only one thing could ruin her holiday joy: blabbermouth May and her tattling ways. When Junie B. pulls out May’s name for the Secret Santa exchange, can she salvage her holiday spirit, or will she let May know exactly what she thinks of her?
November 9 - 18 Mussetter-Struble Theater
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The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley
Book by Timothy Allen McDonald Lyrics by Timothy Allen McDonald & Jonathan K. Waller Music by David Weinstein, Jonathan K. Waller, Timothy Allen McDonald & Stephen Gabriel Based on the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown Directed by David Catlin
Stanley has always dreamed of doing great things, but he resigns himself to playing with his little brother… until the morning he wakes up completely flat! Stanley can now fold up into an envelope, hide in paintings, become a surfboard and travel wherever he wants! He is finally having the adventures of his dreams, but something is still missing. The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley® looks at what happens when our big dreams come true and we don’t have anyone to share them with.
February 8 - 17 Mussetter-Struble Theater
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School A Play Adapted from Louis Sachar’s Wayside School Novels Adapted by John Olive Directed by Dan Cantor
Welcome to Wayside School, where nothing is normal. Not only did the builder accidentally put each classroom on top of the other, but the students of the 30th floor have a problem: their teacher, Mrs. Gorf can turn children into apples! Take a zany journey through the stairways of Wayside School as the students of the 30th floor try their best to navigate the temptation of pigtails, the non-existent 19th floor, a wayward cow and zillions of other challenges – including accepting one another for who they are.
May 3 - 12 Mussetter-Struble Theater
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Amelia Hefferon in The Little Prince (2012), photo by www.Justin Barbin.com.
Four broadcasts have been announced for the 2012/13 season, with more to come! Subscribe to a three or four-broadcast series and save 20% off single ticket prices! See the order form for pricing and more information.
Best of British theatre broadcast live to cinemas around the world.
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME Based on the international best-selling novel by Mark Haddon | Adapted for the stage by Simon Stephens Directed by Marianne Elliott Fifteen-year-old Christopher stands beside Mrs. Shears’ dead dog, Wellington. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in his book to solve the mystery. His detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.
Tue, October 2, 7pm | Ethel M. Barber Theater
FRANKENSTEIN
A new play by Nick Dear based on the novel by Mary Shelley | Directed by Danny Boyle Oscar-winner Danny Boyle (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) returned to the theatre to direct this visionary production, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in alternating roles of the Creature and Victor Frankenstein. Playing to nearly sold-out houses as part of TIC’s 2012 SummerStage seaon, it returns this fall for two more broadcasts. Don’t miss this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale!
Tue, Oct 30, 7pm & 10:30pm | Josephine Louis Theater
THE LAST OF THE HAUSSMANS
A new play by Stephen Beresford | Directed by Howard Davies Anarchic, feisty but growing old, high society drop-out Judy Haussman remains in spirit with the Ashrams of the 1960s while holding court in her dilapidated Art Deco house on the Devon coast. After an operation, she’s joined by her wayward offspring, a sharp-eyed granddaughter, the local doctor and a troubled teenager who makes use of the family’s crumbling swimming pool. Beresford’s new play is a funny, touching and sometimes savage portrait of a family that’s losing its grip.
Tue, November 13, 7pm | Josephine Louis Theater
TIMON OF ATHENS
By William Shakespeare | Directed by Nicholas Hytner Simon Russell Beale (London Assurance, Collaborators) takes the title role in Shakespeare’s strange fable of consumption, debt and ruin, written in collaboration with Thomas Middleton. Wealthy friend to the rich and powerful, patron of the arts, ostentatious host, Timon of Athens is surrounded by free-loaders and sycophants. Vastly outspending his resources, he calls upon his associates for help, who in turn hang him out to dry. After a final, vengeful banquet, Timon pours curses on Athens from his literal and emotional wasteland.
Tuesday, November 27, 7pm | Ethel M. Barber Theater The Theatre and Interpretation Center’s National Theatre Live broadcasts are sponsored by a generous grant from the Alumnae of Northwestern. Presented in partnership with: Jonny Lee Miller in Frankenstein (National Theatre) Photo by Catherine Ashmore.
2012/13 Season
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4-Play Subscription (please circle which time you would like for Frankenstein) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Tue, 10/2, 7pm) Frankenstein (Tue, Oct 30, 7pm OR Tue, Oct 30, 10:30pm) The Last of the Haussmans (Tue, 11/13, 7pm); Timon of Athens (Tue, 11/27, 7pm);
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Junie B. Jones: Sun 11/11, 5pm
Flat Stanley: Sun 2/10, 5pm
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Fri 11/9, 7pm Fri 11/16, 7pm
Sat 11/10, 10am Sat 11/17, 10am
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THANK YOU! Tickets will be mailed in September. Subscription orders may not be refunded. If you have questions about your order, please contact the TIC Box Office at (847) 491-7282. Box Office hours are Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat Noon-4pm. The Box Office will be closed Aug 25 - Sep 3. Titles/dates/artists/locations subject to change.
NEW MUSIC AND COMMUNICATION BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT A three-year construction project is underway on the south side of campus that has altered the normal route to and from the Theatre and Interpretation Center, including the Ethel M. Barber Theater, Josephine Louis Theater, Hal and Martha Hyer Wallis Theater and Mussetter-Struble Theater. During this project, Arts Circle Drive will be closed to traffic. Free parking is still available on weekends and after 4pm on weekdays in the two-level structure located on Campus Drive. This map depicts how our performance venues may be accessed during construction. For the most up-to-date information, visit www.tic.northwestern.edu/construction or call (847) 491-7282 before coming to any of our 2012/13 productions. We encourage all patrons to allow extra time to get into the theater throughout the duration of this project.
SPECIAL-ACCESS NOTE: The two-level parking structure is not accessible to patrons who are unable to climb stairs. For information on handicap parking and designated special-access drop-off locations, you may refer to the above map, visit www.tic.northwestern.edu/construction or call (847) 491-7282. The Box Office is open Tuesdays-Fridays from 10am-5pm and Saturdays from Noon-4pm.
Front Cover: Stone Pinckney in The Bluest Eye (2012); Back Cover: Corey Moss, Rachel Kenney and Matt Kuwaya in The States of America: The Regina Taylor Project (2011); Both photos by www.Justin Barbin.com.
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