The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later

By admin |  October 16, 2009  |   |  (0) Comments

In 2001, Next Theatre Company was honored to bring the Chicago-area Premiere of the groundbreaking docu-drama The Laramie Project to life.

On Monday October 12, 2009 Next Theatre collaborated with the theater departments at Northwestern University and Loyola University to be one of 150 companies to share a new, compelling work from Tectonic Theater Project. … Read More >

Theater is the art by which human beings make human action worth watching

By admin |  June 3, 2008  |   |  (0) Comments

“People need theater” is the brave – and to my mind, absolutely true – opening to Paul Woodruff’s new book, The Necessity of Theater. I’ve yet to read it, but much in the New York Times review of the book is worthy of note on this blog.

Woodruff’s primary claim, though hardly new (hell, it dates back to Aristotle), is that theater, by promoting empathy, provides the essential underpinning of community. In fact, he says that … Read More >