Paramount Theatre s new play project kicks off with dramas by women of color Lanise Antoine Shelley s first full-length play Pretended was one of the works chosen for The Inception Project, Paramount Theatre s new play development program. Paramount Theatre s artistic associate Paul-Jordan Jansen describes the Healing Illinois grant as a blessing. Amber Mak, Paramount Theatre s new works development director, says that The Inception Project creates a space for BIPOC and marginalized voices.
Updated 1/8/2021 12:51 PM
Had everything gone according to plan, director Lanise Antoine Shelley would be in previews for a revival of Rabbit Hole this week at Aurora s Copley Theatre. The multihyphenate actress/writer/director/artist was to direct David Lindsay-Abaire s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama as part of Paramount Theatre s inaugural Copley series.
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Streaming ‘Peter Pan, A Musical Adventure’
Chicago Shakespeare Theater s delightful hit
“Peter Pan” first took center stage in a London theater two days after Christmas in 1904. In advance of its opening, word got out that the play by Scottish author J.M. Barrie (1860–1937) was about a boy who didn’t want to grow up, who could fly, and who had adventures in a place called Neverland. The gossip was that the unusual play would be a bust, so everyone was surprised when it turned out to be a big hit.
It wasn’t just a huge success in its own time, though; Peter has never grown old. Indeed, he seems to be living forever having been immortalized in Disney’s animated movie (1953) and the film “Finding Neverland” (2004) starring Johnny Depp; in Broadway musicals, such as the production starring Mary Martin (1954), and revivals with Sandy Duncan (1979) and gymnast Cathy Rigby (1990). In modern culture, it became the name of a psychological syndrome, and even a moniker fo
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