Open Rehearsal: The Court Theatre Blog
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July 7, 2009
Gold Line
Another year, another South Side transit proposal.
The Chicago Tribune has a story about the Gold Line that would serve South Side neighborhoods in the event of a Chicago 2016 Olympics. The Gold Line is not to be confused with the Gray Line, an older proposal to build a CTA train on the Metra Electric lakeshore corridor.
Hyde Park’s lack of transit is a chronic pain for the neighborhood and the university, even though the CTA Green Line, Red Line, and Metra Electric hit pretty close. Court Theatre is exactly one mile from the Garfield Green Line stop, but my sense is that most of our patrons from the North Side drive here. The Gold Line would clearly be a boon for Court, but I doubt that anyone here is holding their breath.
Still, what a glorious dream:
July 6, 2009
(re)Introductions
Greetings and salutations, Courtiers! My name is Drew, and I’m the new Resident Dramaturg for Court’s 2009-10 season. In addition to the work I’ll be doing on our five plays this year, I’ll also be contributing to this blog as often as I’m in front of the Court Theatre Dramaturgy Computer (which, until rehearsal starts, will be uhh-lot). You’ll be hearing from other Court artists and staffers as well. Frankly, we’re doing a little experimenting with this blog and trying to really push it as a forum for thinking out loud about Court Theatre’s work and its place in our community: in the university, in the neighborhood of Hyde Park and the South Side, in the city of Chicago, and even the nation. Sometimes it can feel for us like our thoughts are being jettisoned into the vasty deep of the Internet, so we welcome and encourage and indeed pine for your comments on all our posts, so please: join the conversation!
