2012-2013 Season
World Premiere
ILLEGAL USE OF HANDS
Written by ABT Artistic Affiliate James Still
Directed by Sandy Shinner
August 31, 2012 – September 30, 2012.
at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
Featuring ABT Ensemble member Steve Key, ABT Artistic Affliliate Dennis Zacek, and guest artist Howie Johnson.
Featuring designs by Grant Sabin (scenic), Charlie Cooper (lights), ABT Ensemble member Lindsay Jones (sound), ABT Ensemble member Samantha C. Jones (costumes), Eileen Rozycki (props), and Derek Gaspar & Chris Rickett (fight direction), ABT Ensemble member Jaclyn Holsey (stage manager), Heather Timmerman (assistant stage manager), and ABT Ensemble member Kelli Marino (dramaturg).
In a small town where buzzards feast on a dead Chevy and the local Wal-Mart hires only college graduates, three men wait out the night in the company of a high school football trophy they’ve rescued from obscurity. It’s a play that wants to be about revenge and glory and being a man—if only the characters could agree on what they can’t remember.
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: LIVE AT THE BIOGRAPH!
Based on Frank Capra’s film
Directed by ABT Ensemble member Marty Higginbotham
November 23, 2012 – December 30, 2012.
at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
Featuring ABT Ensemble members Kevin Kelly, John Mohrlein, Gwendolyn Whiteside and Artistic Affiliates Dara Cameron, James Joseph, Michael Mahler with guest artists Ian Paul Custer and Shawn Goudie.
Featuring designs by Grant Sabin (scenic), Katy Petersen (lights), ABT Artistic Affiliate Austin Cook (underscore), ABT Ensemble member Sarah E. Ross (props), Bobby Richards (projections), ABT Ensemble member Samantha C. Jones (costumes).
The director and Ensemble that have for a decade treated Chicago to Clarence, George, and the delightful characters of Bedford Falls will once again take you back to a 1940s radio broadcast of Frank Capra’s holiday classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” in a full-scale production with Foley sound effects, an original score, and a stellar cast of seven. Critics called this production “perfect Christmas theater” and “first class holiday fare.”
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COLLECTED STORIES
Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies
Co-directed by Mary Ann Thebus and Steppenwolf Artistic Associate Jessica Thebus
April 19, 2013 – May 19, 2013
at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
Featuring ABT Ensemble members Carmen Roman and Gwendolyn Whiteside.
Featuring designs by ABT Ensemble member Sarah E. Ross (scenic), David Warfel (lights), ABT Ensemble member Lindsay Jones (sound), ABT Ensemble members Samantha C. Jones & Kristen DeiTos (costumes), and ABT Ensemble member Sarah Burnham (props).
Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies confronts the themes of competition and intellectual property in Collected Stories. Using 2010’s Broadway version of the script, a mentor and her protégée battle in this 80-minute two character tour-de-force co-directed by Mary Ann Thebus and her daughter Steppenwolf Artistic Associate Jessica Thebus, in their first collaboration as co-directors.
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