As Jackalope puts it: It’s the 15th Annual! This year’s Living Newspaper Festival features five original 10-minute plays from a thrilling lineup of local and national playwrights – presented together in one electric evening at Jackalope Theatre in the Broadway Armory.
TTS Alumni Include: DeVaughn Loman (BFA ACTING 24), & one of the Playwrights Ike Holter.
Living Newspaper Festival Closes Sept. 16th 2024
Tickets Can Be Found Here.
2019 Equity Jeff Nominees – DePaul Alum:
New Work – Play
IKE HOLTER (BFA, Playwriting, ’07) – Lottery Day, Goodman Theatre
Director – Play – Midsize
IAN FRANK (MFA, Directing, ’13) Frankenstein, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company
Director – Musical – Midsize
MICHAEL WEBER (BFA, Acting, ’90) Gypsy, Porchlight Music Theatre
Performer In A Principal Role – Musical
E. FAYE BUTLER (GSD) Gypsy (Rose), Porchlight Music Theatre
Sound Design – Midsize
MATT REICH (BFA, Sound Design, ’15) The Worst Mother in the World, Halcyon Theatre
The 51 st Annual Equity Jeff Awards will be held on Monday, October 21st, at Drury Lane Theatre. The event will be directed by Steve Scott and feature performances from nominated musicals and plays.
Advance tickets, which include the ceremony and pre-/post-show parties, are $85 ($65 for members of Actors’ Equity Association, United Scenic Artists, Stage Directors, and Choreographers Society, Stage Managers’ Association, IATSE, The Dramatists Guild of America, and the American Federation of Musicians). Tickets at the door, if available, will be an additional $10 per ticket.
Red Rex, Steep Theatre, closes 3/2/2o19. IKE HOLTER (BFA, Playwriting, ’07) is the playwright. CHRIS CHMELIK (BFA, Acting, ’08) and AMANDA POWELL (BFA, Acting, ’07) are in the cast. JON RAVENSCROFT (BFA, Theatre Arts, ’09) is the stage manager.
A small theater company moves into an abandoned Chicago storefront. Led by their adventurously thirsty artistic director, they embark on an explosive new play with the hope of finally breaking it big. When the ensemble realizes their source material might not be as original as once assumed,
Source: Red Rex — Steep Theatre
Rightlynd, Victory Gardens Theater, closes 12/23/2018. IKE HOLTER (BFA, Playwriting, ’07) is the playwright. LISA PORTES (Faculty) directs. JEROME BECK (MFA, Acting, ’17) is in the cast. JARED GOODING (BFA, Lighting Designer, ’12) is the lighting designer and COLLETTE POLLARD (BFA, Scene Design, ’00) is the scenic designer. DANNY FENDER (BFA, Stage Management, ’19) is the floor manager.
The Light Fantastic, Jackalope Theatre, closes 6/16/2018. IKE HOLTER (BFA, Playwrighting, ’07) is the playwright.
CHRIS JONES (Faculty) outlines alum IKE HOLTER‘s (BFA, Playwriting, ’07) seven-play Chicago-cycle, including three coming world premieres, in the Chicago Tribune.
“The 32-year-old Holter — whose astonishing writing talent I’ve admired since he exploded here in 2012 with a gorgeous play called “Hit the Wall” — moves in fancy circles these days. He’s represented by a top agent at William Morris Endeavor. He was a 2017 winner of Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize, one of the most lucrative honors in playwriting, given that it comes with a check for $165,000, no strings attached. When I caught up with Holter last weekend, he was about to hop a plane to London to work with the National Theatre of Great Britain, arguably the leading contemporary company in the English-speaking world.”
Talking to Ike Holter about “Sender,” “Wolf at the End of the Block,” “Exit Strategy” and how all the Chicago pieces to his dramatic puzzle fit together.
Red Rex, Steep Theatre, closes 3/2/2018. IKE HOLTER (BFA, Playwrighting, ’07) is the playwright. CHRIS CHMELIK (BFA, Acting, ’08) and AMANDA POWELL (BFA, Acting, ’07) are in the cast. JON RAVENSCROFT (BFA, Theatre Arts, ’09) is the stage manager.
Source: Red Rex — Steep Theatre
Lottery Day, Goodman Theatre, closes 10/8/2017. IKE HOLTER (BFA, Playwrighting, ’07) is the playwright. McKENZIE CHINN (MFA, Acting, ’11) is in the cast.
Twilight Bowl, Goodman Theatre, closes 10/8/2017. ERICA WEISS (BFA, General Theatre Studies, ’05) directs.
Congratulations to GABRIEL RUIZ (BFA, Acting, ’08) who was selected as Leading Performance in a Play for the 2017 Time Out Chicago Theater Awards for his work in Teatro Vista’s The Wolf at the End of the Block, written by fellow alum IKE HOLTER (BFA, Playwriting, ’07). The award winners were selected by a panel of critics and voting by more than 2,300 readers.
Our critics—and you—weigh in on the year’s best.
Living Newspaper Festival, Jackalope Theatre, closes 8/14/2017.
Aziza and the Rocks, ISAAC GOMEZ (Faculty) is the playwright. AZAR KAZEMI (MFA, Directing, ’11 & Faculty) directs.
Put Richard Spencer in a Cross-Arm Neck Breaker?, LIV SHINE (BFA, Acting, ’20) is in the cast.
Nightfall, IKE HOLTER (BFA, Playwriting, ’07) is the playwright. LEEA AYERS (MFA, Acting, ’16) and AMANDA POWELL (BFA, Acting, ’07) are in the cast.
An evening of 6 ten-minute plays inspired by newspaper articles from around the nation, presented by Jackalope Theatre Company.
Source: Jackalope Theatre
