Theatre with a side of life
TimeLine Theatre presents the Chicago premiere production of AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. It’s Norway in the late 1800s. Dr. Thomas Stockmann has received a devastating report. As he suspected, the water at the baths is contaminated and deadly. Despite the pending tourist season, the resort must shut down for two years to reconfigure the water ...
TimeLine Theatre, in partnership with the American Vicarious and the Theatre School at DePaul University, presents the Chicago premiere DEBATE: BALDWIN VS BUCKLEY. Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro? On February 17, 1965, this question was the subject of debate between American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin and American ...
TimeLine Theatre presents the Chicago Premiere of NOTES FROM THE FIELD. The school-to-prison pipeline describes the phenomena that educational inequities lead to unjust incarceration.Whether it’s a woman watching her boyfriend kill a man trying to rape her or a student filming a classmate being thrown across the room by a police officer, if the individual is ...
TimeLine Theatre Company, in conjunction with Broadway in Chicago, presents the Chicago premiere of THE LEHMAN TRILOGY. Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy in 2008 and was permanently closed by the Southern District of New York in 2022. How did a 164-year old institution that survived the Civil War, the Great War, the Stock Market Crash of 1929, ...
Timeline Theatre presents the World Premiere of BOULEVARD OF BOLD DREAMS. It’s 1940. For the first time in Hollywood history, the Academy Awards have nominated a black woman for an Oscar. Hattie McDaniels is to be honored for her portrayal of Mamie in “Gone With The Wind.” The evening should be a glamorous celebration of Miss ...
Timeline Theatre presents the World Premiere of CAMPAIGNS, INC. Freedom of speech has long been a right cherished by Americans. For the last several years, this tenet has been scrutinized. Does this ‘freedom of speech’ extend to lies being told, tweeted and even broadcasted? Does it cover spreading false information about a global health crisis or ...
TimelineTheatre presents the Chicago premiere of THE CHINESE LADY. Once upon a time in a land far away, a fourteen year old girl left her family. She traveled on a large ship on her way to a new world. The girl landed in New York in 1834. She became the first Chinese woman to ever ...
TimeLine Theatre, in conjunction with Broadway in Chicago, presents the Chicago Premiere of OSLO. Playwright J.T. Rogers won the Tony for Best Play in 2017. Rogers chronicles the 1992-1993 secret peace talks. Norwegian diplomats facilitate discussions between Israel and the PLO. The tug and pull negotiations are illustrated through a series of meetings. Over conversations, cocktails ...
Firebrand Theatre, in partnership with TimeLine Theatre Company, launches its 2018-19 season with a revival of the Tony Award-nominated Best Musical CAROLINE, OR CHANGE. This musical is a powerful tribute to the 1960s civil rights movement. We see race relations up close and personal. Caroline (played by the superb Rashada Dawan) is a black maid for a Jewish ...
TimeLine Theatre presents A SHAYNA MAIDEL. The translation for ‘shayna maidel’ is ‘pretty girl.’ The phrase has a sweet simplicity not traditionally associated with something as horrific as the holocaust. Well, that’s Playwright Barbara Lebow’s point. Her story doesn’t focus on the atrocities of the attempt to exterminate the Jewish people. Instead, Lebow narrows in on ...