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2010-2011
The 30th Anniversary Season
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The Piano Teacher*
By Julia Cho
Directed by Lisa Portes
Midwest Premiere
November 4 - December 5, 2010
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When the sweet, cookie loving Mrs. K, the epitome of the caring grandmotherly piano teacher, reaches out to her old students, she discovers a chain of startling secrets that she can no longer keep hidden inside her piano bench. With breath-taking theatricality and stunning language, Julio Cho takes us on a journey of discovery that brings international responsibility into the sanctity of our family kitchen.
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Madagascar*
By J.T. Rogers
Directed by Kimberly Senior
Midwest Premiere
January 20 – February 20, 2011
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Director Kimberly Senior and internationally recognized playwright J.T. Rogers, the pair who brought you The Overwhelming, team up again to offer audiences another gripping thriller. In the same hotel room overlooking the Spanish steps in Rome, three Americans across three different moments in time find themselves alone. A sister, a mother and a family friend grapple with loss, regret, and the nature of truth. Using his trademark cunning insight and grippingly eloquent characters, J.T. Rogers weaves a haunting story about the mysterious disappearance of a loved one, and the unexpected consequences that bring a family closer together.
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The Metal Children*
By Adam Rapp
Directed by Joanie Schultz
Midwest Premiere
April 14 – May 8, 2011
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What responsibility do artists have for the impact of their work? Provocative New York playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp offers a powerful portrait of small-town censorship and the American divide over family values in his newest play fresh from a sold-out Off-Broadway run, The Metal Children. A gifted New York writer attempts to defend his young adult novel to the same small American town hell bent on banning his work, causing an explosive encounter from which no one in the small Midwestern town will recover.
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* - All production rights pending.
 What's Next Series
There is always something happing at Next. Theses exciting limited engagment performances and events bring exciting new voices to Evanston.
Next Theatre subscribers recieve a discount to all What's Next Series events. |
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What’s Next #1
September 10, 2010 |
Unveiled
written and performed Rohina Malik |
Racism. Hate crimes. Love. Islam. Culture. Language. Life.
Five Muslim women in a post-9/11 world serve tea and uncover what lies beneath the veil in this compelling one-woman show. |
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What’s Next #2
September 24 – Oct. 3, 2010 |
Wiggerlover
written and performed Anthony Zocolli |
[white boy+black dad=grey areas]
The totally too-good-to-be-true story of one boy’s life in an interracial family in Chicagoland is examined in this one-man show. |
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What’s Next #3
October 8 – October 17, 2010 |
2nd Story
Performances by Members of 2nd Story |
2nd Story is a hybrid performance event combining storytelling, wine, and music that is produced by the Serendipity Theater Collective as both a monthly performance series and an annual festival 2nd Story performs at Chicago’s Webster's Wine Bar and Red Kiva Lounge. 2nd Story has been featured on WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio. |
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What’s Next Lab |
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What's Next Lab marks the reappearance of an old friend. In 1990 Dexter Bullard began "At The Next Lab" as an opportunity for Next Theatre to present plays in a laboratory style setting that were thought to be too daring to produce. Plays such as Killer Joe by Tracy Letts and Bouncers by John Godber found a home at Next Lab, introducing Chicagoland audiences to many incredibly exciting playwrights in a barebones and intimate environment.
As Next Theatre has grown to be recognized as a national destination for the most socially provocative work from nationally recognized playwrights (In The Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks, The Overwhelming by J.T. Rogers), What's Next Lab will be a launching pad for the most daring and socially relevant work our Chicagoland playwrights can write.
What's Next Lab will produce three new plays per year, presented in rotating repertory, laboratory-style productions. Each play will be paired with a local director and designer and will also be given readings and talkbacks exclusively presented to Next Theatre subscribers throughout the year.
To see the most exciting, fresh-off-the-printer, socially provocative, and artistically adventurous work from the most exciting new local voices, please join us for an old friend made new again. |
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Panel Discussions
Dates TBD
Exclusively for subscribers, a series of three Panel Discussions (one for each decade of the theater’s existence).
Discussion panelists include Jason Loewith, Dexter Bullard, Kate Buckley, Tom Burch, Lisa Portes and, schedules permitting, David Cromer, Josh Schmidt, Tracy Letts and more to be announced.
Panel Discussions are Subscriber Only Events.
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