afterMAPH

Tag: Theater

  • Meet an Alum – Jeff Gilliland (MAPH ’13)

    Below is a blog post from Jeff Gilliland, who during his MAPH year, completed a creative thesis and worked for the Illinois Humanities Council through a Maph Summer Internship (which you can read about here!). Jeff currently works in Washington D.C. as the Communications Associate at Young Playwrights’ Theater. Bringing Arts Education to Life AfterMAPH The…

  • Let’s Get Working: Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel

    If you live in Chicago, you may already know about next week’s Let’s Get Working: Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel. The festival, which runs from May 9-11, will feature screenings, concerts, talks, art installations, talks, performances, oral histories–all celebrating the incomparable Studs Terkel.* There has been a lot of attention surrounding  “Reinventing Radio – An Evening…

  • The Taming of the Shrew, Directed by Jemma Alex Levy (’06)

    You can still catch Muse of Fire Theatre Company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew this weekend in Evanston!  Directed by MAPH alum Jemma Alix Levy, the show goes on in Ingraham Park on Saturday and Sunday at 3:00 pm.  Both performances are free, no reservations are required, and seating is free & unlimited.…

  • Revival, Nostalgia, and Angels in America

    Reposted from the Court Theatre Blog.  The first part of Angels in America opens  March 30, 2012 “The World Only Spins Forward” by Deborah Blumenthal  MAPH ’11   I was seventeen when I first saw Angels in America, and it did, as it does, change how I saw the world. It was the magnificent HBO…

  • Martin Schwartz (MAPH ’06) opens a theatrical work in San Francisco

    Martin Schwartz (MAPH ’06) directed and wrote Tutor: enter the exclave, a theatrical piece based on JMR Lenz’s Der Hofmeister (1774). The work is slated to open tomorrow at Dark Porch Theatre in San Francisco, CA and runs through October 22nd at the EXIT Studio on 156 Eddy St.  If you are in the Bay…

  • Missing your coursework? Take a class from a MAPHer!

    MAPH alum Hallie Palladino is teaching a six-week playwriting class through Loyola Continuum. Have you been putting your writing on the back burner and you’re looking for a way to push yourself back into it? Do you have an idea that would make a great one-act play? Or maybe you know someone else who might…

  • Conversations at the Caffeine Theatre

    Jennifer Shook graduated from MAPH in 2005 and is currently doing work at Chicago’s Caffeine Theatre. She submits this post with the hopes of generating conversations with other (After)MAPHers after being inspired by her work with the theatre company. Caffeine and Translations–and Caffeine Theatre’s TRANSLATIONS The same week I started in MAPH, Caffeine Theatre premiered…