Civil War Sesquicentennial: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."

Sunday, October 16, 2011

– that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Civil War Project 2011-2015

The Copperhead
by Augustus Thomas
Directed by Kathy Scambiatterra
Ran April 12-May 15, 2011
"City Lit’s sesquicentennial commemoration could not have begun more auspiciously."
Lawrence Bommer,
Chicago Stage Style
Jeff-recommended

Opus 1861:
The Civil War in Symphony
devised by Elizabeth Margolius and Terry McCabe
Directed by Elizabeth Margolius
Ran April 13-May 13, 2012
"What this company has done with the American Civil War is nothing less than stunning."
K.D. Hopkins,
Chicago Theatre Beat
Three Jeff nominations:

Best New Work: Adaptation

Best Ensemble

Best Music Direction (Gary Powell)

Comrades Mine:
Emma Edmonds of the Union Army
by Maureen Gallagher
Directed by Anna Bahow
Ran April 12-May 19, 2013
"An absorbing portrait of friendships forged in the heat of war's hell and its aftermath."

Kerry Reid,

Chicago Tribune

Jeff nomination:
Best New Work: Play

Confederates in the Attic
by Tony Horwitz
Adapted by Terry McCabe
April 25-May 25, 2014
"Heckuva good show . . . this play works remarkably well and does exactly what it sets out to do."
Christopher Kidder-Mostrom,
Theatre by Numbers

The Bloodhound Law
by Kristine Thatcher
Opening in April 2015
A world premiere drama chronicling the fight by black and white abolitionist Chicagoans against the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.

Civil War Sesquicentennial

Sunday, October 16, 2011

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."

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