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          string(3457) "<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10705" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ed-blog-800.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="326" />The generous gifts of Court donors like you are already being put to work as Court’s new Director of Education <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/patrese-d-mcclain/">Patrese McClain</a> plans for the upcoming school year. And thanks to the generosity of the Betty Lou Smith Fund, all the increased, new, and additional gifts received in support of Court’s Education Initiative have been matched and doubled!

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<strong>Read on to learn about progress already being made in Court’s Education Initiative programming. This is all possible because of your support!</strong>

Court will be expanding the <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/community-engagement/education-initiative/artists-in-schools/">Artists-in-the-Schools</a> (AIS) Residencies to three additional South Side high schools this fall. Additionally, the Education team will be piloting short term AIS Residencies. While the typical residency is between twelve and fourteen sessions, these short term residencies will last between six and eight sessions. These briefer residencies will offer schools greater scheduling flexibility, while allowing Court to reach more students.

Community Solutions programming continues to develop as well. This spring Patrese conducted a pilot College Admissions workshop, offering assistance to students as they worked on auditioning and applying for college admissions and scholarships. She plans on expanding these workshops into multiple schools in the coming Season.

<strong>This Season, Court welcomed 2,193 high school students at <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/community-engagement/education-initiative/student-matinees/">Student Matinees</a> performances.</strong>

Patrese has plans to engage even more students through matinees next Season. She’s meeting with teachers and administrators to find new and engaging ways to integrate Court’s work into classrooms outside of the English and Theatre Departments. She hopes to use <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2018-2019-season/frankenstein/"><em>Frankenstein</em></a> and <em><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2018-2019-season/photograph-51/">Photograph 51</a></em> next Season as pathways into Science classes.

<strong>This is the impact of your gift: bringing theatre and arts into the lives of students across the South Side.</strong>

Your support gives Patrese the resources she needs to expand current programs and introduce new initiatives that address the needs of our students. You are impacting the lives of youth across the South Side, during the formative and critical time of self-discovery and learning that is high school.

Thank you for making this investment in Court and in our South Side students. We can’t wait to share more news with you when the school year begins, and keep you updated on all the exciting moments that your gift has made possible.

<em>To read more about Court’s Education Initiative, and to make a gift in support of these programs, <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/support/donate/">click here</a>.</em>"
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          string(8222) "<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10644" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/origin-blog-reviews.jpg" alt="Edward Gero as Justice Antonin Scalia" width="800" height="300" />Since opening night on May 19, critics have issued their opinions of <i>The Originalist. </i>While the majority opinion recommends the production, Chris Jones over at the <em>Chicago Tribune</em> offers a mild dissent. In the spirit of civil discourse, we present you with a variety of critic viewpoints. But don't let them decide; join us at Court Theatre and you be the judge. <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em> is on stage through June 10.</a>

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"It depicts robust, aggressive, passionate disagreement in a context of respect and developing friendship. It accepts power and winning as measures of success, but decency and kindness as even more important measures of a person. In that regard, it feels like a play we need right now."
<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/the-originalist-depicts-antonin-scalia-as-both-mentor-and-scholar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Chicago Sun Times,</em> Steven Oxman, ★★★</a>

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“<em>The Originalist</em> triumphs by uniting a stimulating script with a fascinating central character and an exceptional lead performance. [. . . ] Love him or hate him, Antonin Scalia is wonderful company for an evening. For this boon to audiences, Edward Gero and John Strand deserve much thanks.”
<a href="https://chicagolandtheaterreviews.com/chicagoland-productions/originalist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Chicagoland Theater Reviews,</em> Dan Zeff, ★★★</a>

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“Court Theatre, under the leadership of Charles Newell, continues to bring topnotch and relevant productions to the community [. . .] The Originalist is another worthy production that will not disappoint.”
<a href="http://www.aroundthetownchicago.com/theatre-reviews/the-originalist-reviewed-by-michael-horn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Around the Town Chicago</em>, Michael Horn, ★★★</a>

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“A doppelganger for the late justice, Gero thoroughly inhabits the role of Scalia in John Strand’s 2015 play, The Originalist. Shuffling across the stage, singing an aria, debating legal points, Gero is Scalia, never out of character until after he takes a final bow and exits the stage sans shuffle.”
<a href="http://chicago.splashmags.com/index.php/2018/05/20/the-originalist-review-order-in-the-court-theatre/#gsc.tab=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Splash Magazines</em>, Leanne Star</a>

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“Court Theatre brings us a masterpiece that is interesting, thought-provoking and an exhilarating debate in <em>The Originalist</em> by John Strand.”
<a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/lets-play/2018/05/the-originalist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-ChicagoNow</em>, Rick and Brenda McCain</a>

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"Do plan to leaf through the copy of the US Constitution handed to you with your program with new eyes, renewed reverence, and passion. That you will likely do so speaks to the considerable power of this play.  Plan to be engaged anew in the visions of our founding fathers."
<a href="http://www.picturethispost.com/court-theatre-presents-the-originalist-review/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Picture This Post,</em> Amy Munice</a>

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"Scalia, one imagines, would have liked being back in Hyde Park. I just think a man of his heft would have preferred to be at the center of a more complicated play, and a more truthful production. And most liberals — who may well find the characterization here of Scalia as a lovable, kind, brilliant and principled curmudgeon infuriating — would not disagree."
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-ent-originalist-court-review-0522-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Chicago Tribune,</em> Chris Jones, 2.5 Stars</a>

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"Gero’s portrayal of Scalia is impeccable. He captures the late justice’s penchant for showmanship, his sharp sense of humor, pugilistic stubbornness, and general mannerisms... Strand’s message of open-mindedness and respectful discourse still shines through, and makes <em>The Originalist</em> a worthwhile watch for anyone willing to challenge their own, seemingly unbendable, political stance."
<a href="https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/5/22/originalist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Chicago Maroon</em>, Patrick Egon</a>

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"... <span style="font-weight: 400;">Strand delivers a think piece that pushes people to consider standing on a middle ground, where we acknowledge diverse voices and ideas, even if we do not always agree with them... </span>I believe people will find inspiring hope in<em> The Originalist</em> because it romanticizes the possibilities of what we could become if we work together to find common ground.<span style="font-weight: 400;">"
</span><a href="http://perform.ink/review-the-originalist-at-court-theatre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Performink,</em> Naima Dawson</a>

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"There’s little Americans like more than a legal drama—the upstart v. the establishment, the idealist v. the realist, the new v. the old—may the winner expose our present moral condition through a fistfight sublimated into debate... But “The Originalist” does not deliver the customary satisfaction through exploration of the case..."
<a href="https://www.newcitystage.com/2018/05/21/unoriginal-originalist-a-review-of-the-originalist-at-court-theatre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Newcity,</em> Irene Hsaio</a>

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"<span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Court Theatre</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> production, directed by Molly Smith, proves that although Scalia may have been a “monster,” as his opponents called him (to his delight), he was really a charming monster... </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Edward Gero, who also has played Scalia from the beginning, is masterful at recreating the justice’s style and bearing. Wheeler, who performed in two other productions of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Originalist</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, is superb as Cat."
</span><a href="https://thirdcoastreview.com/2018/05/22/court-theatres-originalist-two-legal-intellects-skirmish-political-extremes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Third Coast Review,</em> Nancy Bishop</a>

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"<span style="font-weight: 400;">The play features two fine lead performers. Edward Gero is the proudly conservative Scalia, who is a self-described “originalist” in his interpretations of the US. Constitution. An “originalist” is an individual who believes in the literal, original meaning of a text."
</span><a href="http://readbuzz.com/2018/05/22/theater-review-court-theatres-the-originalist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Buzz, </em>Syd Slobodnik</a>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">"The play's premise could have been lifted from a 1940s screwball comedy—verbally adept conservative white male judge hires an equally verbally adept liberal, female, African-American law clerk ... their constant sparring does have a rom-com feel to it, and that adds yet another layer to this </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">rich, fascinating, exceptionally well-written and well-acted play."</span>
<a href="https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-originalist-court-theatre/Content?oid=48647721" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Chicago Reader,</em> Jack Helbig</a>

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"a fascinating, provocative evening of theatre firing on all cylinders ... John Strand’s <em>The Originalist</em> is a richly-complicated exploration of The Honorable Antonin Scalia, showcasing a superb performance by Edward Gero."
<a href="https://www.conversationswithedtracy.com/picksinsix/2017/5/23/picksinsix-review-the-originalist"><em>-Conversations with Ed Tracy</em></a>
<p class="caption">Photo of Edward Gero as Justice Antonin Scalia by Gary W. Sweetman</p>"
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          string(5174) "<span style="font-weight: 400;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10625" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Supreme_Court_US_2010.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="300" />Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wasn’t shy. Known for his quick wit as much as his sharp legal mind, he was, in the words of playwright John Strand, “</span><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/about/blog/playwright-john-strand-on-justice-scalia/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">a puncher</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” Here are a few colorful quotes from his dissents.</span>

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<em><b>King v. Burwell</b></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><em>In June 2015, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to keep Obamacare intact.</em>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Court’s next bit of </span><b>interpretive jiggery-pokery</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> involves other parts of the Act that purportedly presuppose the availability of tax credits on both federal and state Exchanges. [. . .]</span> <b>Pure applesauce</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”</span></p>


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<strong><em>Obergefell v. Hodges</em></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">After the Court ruled in support of gay marriage, Scalia pointedly critiqued the opening lines of Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion.</span></em>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: ‘The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,’ </span><b>I would hide my head in a bag</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story </span><b>to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”</span></p>


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<em><b>United States v. Virginia</b></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a 7-1 vote, the Court ruled against the Virginia Military Institute’s policy of admitting only men.</span></i>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"If it were impossible for individual human beings (or groups of human beings) to act autonomously in effective pursuit of a common goal,</span><b> the game of soccer would not exist</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">."</span></p>


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<em><b>Community Nutrition Institute v. Block</b></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1984, Scalia waxed poetic about lawmaking and sausage.</span></i>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This case, involving legal requirements for the content and labeling of meat products such as frankfurters, affords a rare opportunity to explore simultaneously both parts of Bismarck’s aphorism that </span><b>‘No man should see how laws or sausages are made.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">’”</span></p>


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<em><b>PGA Tour Inc. v. Martin</b></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the 2001 dissent, Scalia discussed the ever-important role of golf in the law.</span></i>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"If one assumes, however, that the PGA TOUR has some legal obligation to play classic, Platonic golf—and if one assumes the correctness of all the other wrong turns the Court has made to get to this point—then we Justices must confront what is indeed an awesome responsibility. It has been rendered the solemn duty of the Supreme Court of the United States, laid upon it by Congress in pursuance of the Federal Government’s power ‘[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States,’ </span><b>to decide What Is Golf</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. I am sure that the Framers of the Constitution, aware of the 1457 edict of King James II of Scotland prohibiting golf because it interfered with the practice of archery, fully expected that sooner or later the paths of golf and government, the law and the links, would once again cross, and that the judges of this august Court would some day have to wrestle with </span><b>that age-old jurisprudential question</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, for which their years of study in the law have so well prepared them: Is someone riding around a golf course from shot to shot really a golfer? The answer, we learn, is yes. The Court ultimately concludes, and it will henceforth be the Law of the Land, that walking is not a ‘fundamental” aspect of golf.’”</span></p>
Check out <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em></a> at Court Theatre, May 10 – June 10, 2028.
<p class="caption">Photo: The Roberts Court (October 2010 – February 2016).</p>"
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<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;">Is the Constitution a living document, one that should change and evolve over time, or is it a text frozen in the moment of its creation, strictly bound by the Founding Fathers’ original intentions?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;">David A. Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, wrote <i>The Living Constitution</i> (Oxford University Press, 2010) to address this question.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<h5>What is your definition of originalism?</h5>
I think originalism is the claim that we can figure out what the Constitution allows and forbids by looking at decisions made by the Founders—decisions made at the time the Constitution was written. My view is that just cannot be done. You cannot get answers to today’s issues by consulting the intentions of people who lived in an utterly different country in the late 18th century. And because originalism really doesn’t work in the way its proponents claim, the appeal to the Founders ends up being a kind of rhetorical move that people use to accomplish something else. Originalists, I think, often find principles in the text and in the decisions of the founding generation that they want to find there. They might be perfectly good principles, but they should be defended on their own merits, not by invoking the authority of the Founders or the text.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
<h5>What kind of originalist was Antonin Scalia?</h5>
Justice Scalia was regarded as a conservative, but one thing people do not always realize is that originalism is not necessarily a conservative approach. The most influential originalist of the last 100 years was not Justice Scalia at all. It was Justice Hugo Black, an intellectual force for civil rights and free speech on the Warren Court. In most respects, Justice Black was what we would call a liberal, and he very much fancied himself an originalist.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

What that tells me is that originalism is something people use to attack the tradition they grew up in. Justice Black, who was from Alabama, grew up in a tradition of racism, in a time when there was Jim Crow segregation and repression in the South, and he hated it. So he appealed to the Founders, claiming that they believed in racial equality and civil liberties. Racial equality and civil liberties are good things, but it’s not so clear that the Founders thought so!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

Justice Scalia grew up in the Warren Court era, when the Court was aggressively protecting what the Court saw as disadvantaged groups in society, and Justice Scalia thought the Warren Court went too far. So he portrayed the Founders in a different way.
<h5>Your view of the Constitution is the opposite of originalism. Could you explain what you mean by a “living” Constitution?</h5>
One of the strengths of our Constitutional system is that it maintains certain principles as fundamental, but it shapes and adapts those principles to changing circumstances, changing times, and to particular crises that arise.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>That’s because our system, it seems to me, is based mostly on precedent and tradition, instead of simply looking for an authoritative command from the Founders or the text of the Constitution. That’s the sense in which the Constitution is “living”: it is able to adapt without losing touch with the past, by continuing to develop principles that have been worked out over time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
<h5>What are examples of the “living Constitution” in action?</h5>
There are a lot of them, because major events in the history of this country have changed our understanding of the Constitution in many ways. Those changes are now built into our institutions and our traditions and even our ways of thinking about each other. Take racial equality, for example. The Supreme Court’s decisions establishing principles of racial equality rely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, but when that Amendment was adopted, the idea that African Americans were equal to whites was a radical position. The Amendment just gave blacks certain limited rights. No one, for example, thought that the Amendment meant that there was a right to interracial marriage. But over time, we made progress. Americans came to understand that racial discrimination was intolerable in all its forms. It took a while for the country to come around to that view, but the country did come around, and it is now a point of essentially universal consensus—as much a part of the Constitution as anything you can think of, even though the text was never amended. I could give you a lot of other examples; women’s equality is in a way an even more dramatic case. ■

Check out <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em></a> at Court Theatre, May 10 - June 10, 2028."
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          string(7164) "<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/john-strand/"><img class="size-full wp-image-10403 alignright" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/scalia-600.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="452" />John Strand</a> was the playwright in residence at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. when his play, <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><i>The Originalist</i></a>, premiered in 2015. He is currently at work on the film version of <i>The Originalist</i>, as well as the new play, <i>River of Doubt</i>, about the life of Teddy Roosevelt. <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/nora-titone/">Nora Titone</a>, Court Theatre’s Resident Dramaturg,<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>spoke with Strand to discover how he created a version of Justice Scalia for the stage, and what his motivation was for exploring this complex moment in America’s highest court.

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<h5>You observed that “Nobody is neutral on the subject of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.” What is it about him that evokes such passionate responses across the political spectrum?</h5>
One primary reason is that he was a puncher. He was pugilistic in his approach to what he believed and that really antagonized people who disagreed with him and caused people who agreed with him to stand on their feet and cheer. It was his nature to be controversial in public and we see that in his words from the bench. Part of what led me to first research Scalia was how vicious and vitriolic the comments were about him, not just as a Supreme Court Justice, but as an individual. But when I began to speak with people who worked with him and knew him well, he was this wonderful, paternal, humorous, brilliant individual. I thought there must be an interesting way to reconcile those two extremes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
<h5>By exploring Scalia’s character, did you hope there was going to be a collective lesson we could learn, or a political rift that could be healed? Or was it really just purely intellectual, to answer the question: how does he tick?</h5>
Many people join me in feeling alarm at the polarization of political discourse, if we can even dignify it with this term. I wanted to use Scalia as an example of someone who represents the extreme and see what it would be like to put him in the same ring with someone who is his polar opposite. We match him with a woman of color in her twenties, fresh out of law school, and what happens is that this pairing is not a mismatch: she learns how to punch. The historic Scalia was someone who welcomed debate from his clerks and made a point of hiring a liberal law clerk because it inspired heated debate. He loved that. But I think there’s an intellectual generosity in the idea that, ‘I don’t agree with you, but I will listen to you explain your condition respectfully and then I’ll answer you respectfully,’ and that’s how he treated the people around him. He was much tougher on his fellow justices. When they did something that he thought was wrong— that went against his own originalist interpretation of the Constitution—he could be vicious. You wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of Antonin Scalia when he was reading a dissent to the bench. He frequently excoriated the other justices when he thought that they were violating the principles of the Constitution as he saw them.
<h5>Were there particular decisions of his from the bench that you had at the forefront of your mind as you were thinking about creating his portrait?</h5>
I went back and read all of his dissents. Scalia was a brilliant thinker and he had a comic timing that was really remarkable. He was funny from the bench, often to the chagrin of the people of opposing view. I think someone did a survey of how many times each justice solicited humor from fellow justices or the Court during a hearing and Scalia did so at a rate of about ten times that of any other. He knew how to deliver a line. There was a certain performer in Scalia, which is another thing that really interested me. He loved opera and he even appeared in a few operas as an extra. Scalia was a larger than life character and I think he really enjoyed that. He used the bench with its very theatrical setting, its costumes, and its lighting to perform. He performed from the bench.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

The play was embraced in Washington by enthusiastics audiences during Scalia’s lifetime, and now is proliferating in a new way in a new political moment. What do you hope to see happen as people come to the theater now and watch this piece?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

At the heart of the play is the idea that it is possible for two people of extremely divergent viewpoints to argue their case and at the same time not lose respect for one another and even, perhaps, gain respect for one another. The alternative is for us all to retreat into a kind of childish, reactionary, hateful response to people with whom we disagree politically. But here are two people who are extreme opposites of one another but have a certain amount of hope to move towards the other’s position. If you don’t have the respect to listen, research, and learn from an opposite viewpoint,<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>you’ll never be effective in arguing against it. So that’s the hope from this, I think. In the play they come to respect one another in a way that neither one of them would have anticipated.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
<h5>And as you say there’s a historical basis in the life of Justice Scalia for that hopefulness.</h5>
You need only look at his most famous buddy sitting next to him on the bench, Justice Ginsburg. His positions may have driven her crazy from time to time but she loved him for his qualities as a person: his humor, the way he mentored his clerks— liberal or conservative—and the way he was a natural teacher. She has said that there are many times when she would submit one of her opinions to Scalia, asking him to read and comment on it. He was tough on her but she said that he made her argument better, stronger, more accurate. In reading her opinion, he probably disagreed with every line, but he took it seriously and worked to strengthen her argument. I think he greatly admired her courage and he saw how difficult it was for a woman in those days to advance in law and then rise all the way to the Supreme Court. I think he would begin from the position of: if you’re seated next to me on the bench, you’re a remarkable person and you are very talented in matters of law or you wouldn’t be here. If past that point you also happen to have a wonderful sense of humor and you’re just a real humanist and and intellectual, as is true of Justice Ginsburg, she had his respect. ■

<i>-Edited by Ella Hester</i>

Catch <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em></a> at Court Theatre May 10 - June 10, 2018."
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;">When Washington, D.C.-based actor <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/4104/">Edward Gero</a> agreed to take on the role of Antonin Scalia, he had no idea of the unlikely relationship that would develop between him and the late Supreme Court justice. Prior to Scalia’s passing in 2016, Gero had visited “Nino” dozens of times, and bonded with him about their shared backgrounds, love of Shakespeare, and passion for language. Gero talked with Shelby Wenner, Court’s Associate Director of Marketing, about his process to understand this character, and his hopes in bringing <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><i>The Originalist </i></a>to Chicago.</p>

<h5>Tell me a little bit about the process of getting to know Justice Scalia, from an artist’s perspective.</h5>
For me, the actual person and the character in the biographical play are deeply intertwined. I had the opportunity to meet Justice Scalia about six to seven months before starting rehearsal, but I decided that was too soon; I had to do my own research first! So I read biographies on him, I read The Federalist Papers, books on the Supreme Court, and so on.

In November of 2014, I was invited as Justice Scalia’s guest to a hearing, and lunch in his chambers afterwards. I was sitting in his guest seats, and when he came out into the Court, he looked over at me. We locked eyes and regarded each other—it was a very long stare, and I thought to myself, “As long as I don’t melt, I’ll be fine.” He finally looked away, and off he went. He was very engaged in that particular hearing, asking a lot of questions and using many behaviors that I could use as an actor.

We had lunch afterwards, and he was very charming. He said to me, “I want you to know that I won’t be seeing the play, but I’m glad they got someone good to do it.” We talked about some ideas that I had to understand his legal interpretations and theory. I used an analogy of how I approach Shakespearean work: with text analysis, syntax, and semantics, deriving meaning from the text itself. He said that this was perfectly analogous to how he approaches the United States Constitution. This really confirmed my early decisions about how I thought his mind worked. We talked about music, Italy, our New Jersey roots, our religious background. He had a command of language that I hadn’t experienced before. He said to come back anytime I liked, and I took him up on that offer.
<h5>What was it like meeting him?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></h5>
Life-altering. Inspiring to be in the presence of someone who had such commitment to democracy and the law. What surprised me about him was his humility. Like a good actor, you serve the playwright. Like a good justice, you serve the law. Being in the courtroom is like being in the theatre… words really matter.

Has acting as Justice Scalia in multiple productions of <i>The Originalist </i>as the world changes drastically affected your relationship with the play’s meaning?

I was present for the <i>Obergefell v. Hodges</i> hearing [the landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples are guaranteed the fundamental right to marry], I had lunch with him afterwards in his chambers, and I performed <i>The Originalist</i> that night. The audience was trying to read the tea leaves to see if there was anything there—but we didn’t talk politics. For him, it didn’t matter if you didn’t agree with him. What was important to him was what you thought, and how you arrived at it. Let’s challenge it, poke holes in it, and move on. The fact that we vilify people who disagree with us was not something he was doing. Fundamentally, it was about taking the law and democracy seriously.

What hass changed since his passing and the last election cycle are audience reactions and expectations. What started out as a lecture to the political left about being open-minded has become not only that, but also a cautionary tale to the right. A consistent and transparent conservative to whom words matter is seen as a hope, and people appreciate him more because you at least know what you’re going to get every time.
<h5>When not performing on stage, you are on faculty at George Mason University. How does working with and teaching students interact with your profession as an actor?</h5>
There is definitely influence; <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/jade-wheeler/">Jade</a> [Wheeler, playing Cat] is actually my former student! We come by the relationship organically and honestly, which is a great boon to the play. It’s been wonderful to work with her.

I’ve been at George Mason University for over 25 years. My students value my role as a professional actor, as a role model for students showing that having a life in both a theatre and in a community is possible. I’ve made a serious commitment to regional theatre, but I spend nine hours a day at George Mason on Mondays, the Equity day off. This schedule frees me to go to rehearsals, bring best practices back to the classroom, and my students are able to come to performances to see me hopefully walking the walk.
<h5>What are your hopes for bringing <i>The Originalist</i> to a Chicago audience? How do you hope this play lives on in the future?</h5>
I love Chicago audiences: they’re smart, hip, critical, diverse. From the vibrancy of a college town, to the working class, and all the way up the scale. They like grit, and they like new ideas. I’m excited to see how they respond.

As a Shakespearean actor, I’m used to playing a lot of characters people love to hate, but I’ve never played one that audiences hate to love. It is my hope that audiences get a sense of the human being that I got to know, and in so doing, reconsider their ideas of the man and the Justice. I hope the play engages audiences to reconsider how they conduct their civil discourse. Work at listening, especially when we disagree. Get out, get engaged, express yourself, and vote! ■

Don't miss Edward Gero as Justice Antonin Scalia in<em> <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/">The Originalist</a></em>, May 10 - June 10, 2018.
<p class="caption">Photo by Gary W. Sweetman.</p>"
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On January 31, 2018, Court Theatre lost a friend and supporter, Professor Jack Halpern. Jack served as a member of the Court Theatre Board of Trustees from 1988 until his death.

Jack Halpern joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the University of Chicago in 1962 and remained there, as well as a resident of Hyde Park, for the rest of his career. His contributions to chemistry included hundreds of published scientific articles and serving as editor for numerous scientific journals. During his lifetime, he received many honors and much recognition for his work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

Beyond his scientific knowledge and expertise, Jack always had a fondness for the arts. His daughter, Janice, said, “Science was his calling, but art in all forms was his passion.” Jack and his late wife, Helen, were fans of modern art, especially Expressionist, Cubist, and Surrealist works, and over the years they developed an extensive collection.

Jack also was a longtime fan of Court’s work. Janice recalled, “He loved being part of the Court family. He felt like an insider because of his long connection with the theatre, his participation on the Board, and attendance at the many Opening Nights and other Court-sponsored events, where he could enjoy the company of its wonderful staff and patrons.” His younger daughter, Nina, added, “When I spoke with my father on the phone in later years, one of the most frequent topics of conversation was his immense pride in whatever the most recent production of Court Theatre happened to be.”

During Jack’s service on the Board, he saw Court through many changes, including <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/charles-newell/">Charles Newell</a>’s appointment as Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director, and the expansion of the theatre’s work to include new adaptations and pieces from the African American canon.

During his nearly 30 years on the Board, Jack’s support was integral to the theatre’s success.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In the 1990s, Jack and Helen established a Charitable Gift Annuity, indicating that after both of their deaths, the remaining funds would be distributed equally to Court Theatre and the Smart Museum. Since the Annuity was established over two decades ago, it has grown significantly from its original value. The distributed funds will be added to Court’s endowment, helping the theatre fulfill its mission of dedication to innovation, inquiry, intellectual engagement, and community service for next season, and seasons to come.

Nina said of her father, “I think he took great pride in the high quality of Court’s productions, and was happy to contribute to that ongoing excellence in whatever way he could.”

Court is humbled to carry on Jack’s and Helen’s legacy of passion for the arts. ■

<strong>Have you already included Court in your will or estate plans? Would you like to learn more about adding a bequest in your will to support Court or designating Court as beneficiary of your retirement account or life insurance plan? Contact Susan M. Zellner, Director of Development, at (773) 834-3305 or <a href="mailto:szellner@uchicago.edu">email</a>.</strong>
<p class="caption">PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO NEWS OFFICE</p>"
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          string(6369) "In the spirit of <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em></a>, a play about listening to and engaging in civil discourse with those who have opposing viewpoints, Court is pleased to host a series of post-play discussions to delve deeper into the art and its related themes. Even if you are attending the production on a different day, we invite Court patrons to attend any of the discussions. The production runs approximately 100 minutes and discussions begin promptly at the end of the performance. We hope you will join us!

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10193" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/firstpreview-chant.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>Thursday, May 10: First Preview Tasting with CHANT and Discussion
</strong>Enjoy samples from Dining Partner <a href="https://www.chantchicago.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CHANT</a> pre-show in the lobby, and a post-play discussion led by <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/seema-sueko/">Seema Sueko</a>, Arena Stage Deputy Artistic Director.
<strong><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/7:30%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist/2018-04-16/3320/">Buy Tickets for May 10 at 7:30PM</a></strong>

<hr />

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10197" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/preview-discussions.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>May 11-17: Preview Performances with Post-Play Discussion
</strong>Following all preview performances, <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/seema-sueko/">Seema Sueko</a>, Arena Stage Deputy Artistic Director, or <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/4104/">Edward Gero</a> who portrays Justice Scalia, or other members of the artistic team lead a discussion with the audience.
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/#calendar"><strong>Buy Tickets for a Preview May 11-17</strong></a>

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10194" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/strand-john.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>Friday, May 18: <em>The Originalist</em> Playwright John Strand
</strong>Following the Friday 8:00PM performance, Charles MacArthur Award winning playwright <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/john-strand/">John Strand</a> leads the audience discussion.
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/8:00%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist/2018-04-16/3327/"><strong>Buy Tickets for May 18 at 8PM</strong></a>

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10198" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/nussbaum-corvino.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>Sunday, May 20: Martha Nussbaum and John Corvino on Religion, Law, and LGBT Rights
</strong>Following the Sunday 2:30PM matinee, <a href="https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/nussbaum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martha Nussbaum</a>, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, joins <a href="https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/ae9123" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Corvino</a>, Professor of Philosophy at Wayne State University and author of <em>Debating Same-Sex Marriage</em>, to discuss Supreme Court decisions on religious liberty and LGBT rights.
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/2:30%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist/2018-04-16/3329/"><strong>Buy Tickets for May 20 at 2:30PM</strong></a>

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10610" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/bevington-may24.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>Thursday, May 24: Theatre scholar David Bevington
</strong>Following the 7:30PM performance, join us for a discussion with <a href="https://english.uchicago.edu/emeritus/david-bevington-emeritus-teaching-2016-17" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Bevington</a>, author, theatre scholar, and University of Chicago Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, and <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/charles-newell/">Charles Newell</a>, Court's Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director.
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/7:30%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist/2018-04-26/3332/"><strong>Buy Tickets for May 24 at 7:30PM</strong></a>

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10195" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/feldman.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>Saturday, May 26: Elliot Feldman, Attorney and Legal Advisor for <em>The Originalist</em>
</strong>Following the Saturday 3:00PM matinee, enjoy a discussion led by <a href="https://www.bakerlaw.com/ElliotJFeldman#overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elliot Feldman</a>, Senior Partner at Baker &amp; Hostetler LLP in Washington, D.C., UChicago Alumnus, and Legal Consultant for <em>The Originalist</em>.
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/3:00%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist/2018-04-16/3334/"><strong>Buy Tickets for May 26 at 3PM</strong></a>

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10196" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/lacroix-merchant.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>Sunday, June 3: Alison LaCroix and Jason Merchant on Rhetoric and Legal Interpretation
</strong>Following the Sunday 2:30PM matinee
In celebration of Alumni Weekend at the University of Chicago, the discussion will be led by <a href="https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/lacroix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alison LaCroix</a>, Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and<a href="http://home.uchicago.edu/merchant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Jason Merchant</a>, Lorna Puttkammer Straus Professor, Department of Linguistics and Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago.
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/2:30%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist%20(OC)/2018-04-16/3343/"><strong>Buy Tickets for June 3 at 2:30PM</strong></a>"
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In <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/john-strand/">John Strand</a>’s <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em></a>, Justice Antonin Scalia—a notorious proponent of constitutional originalism, one who staunchly fought against judicial provisions for abortion, affirmative action, and gay marriage—mentors and befriends a liberal law clerk. Despite their ideological differences, the two find some common ground: love of arguing, respect for democracy, blackjack.

Their camaraderie isn’t merely a product of Strand’s imagination. In Scalia’s early years on the court, he hired one liberal law clerk each year to keep staff debates lively. “I love to argue,” he said, “I’ve always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. [. . .] I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, ‘I better reexamine my position!’”

Perhaps, then, it’s unsurprising that one of Scalia’s best friends was Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

<img class="size-medium wp-image-10166 alignleft" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/scalia-and-rbg-2-e1522873198533-300x244.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="244" />Scalia and Ginsburg spent New Year's Eve with one another every year. Scalia watch Ginsburg parasail in the south of France ("She's so light, you would think she would never come down.”). They even rode together on an elephant in India (Scalia joked that Ginsburg betrayed her feminism by sitting behind him. Ginsburg retorted: “The driver explained it was a matter of distribution of weight.”).

The two justices, though ideological adversaries, had a shared love and respect for one another’s intellect rarely found in today’s divided political world. “If you can’t disagree ardently with your colleagues about some issues of law and yet personally still be friends, get another job, for Pete’s sake,” Scalia asserted. “As annoyed as you might be about his zinging dissent, he’s so utterly charming, so amusing, so sometimes outrageous, you can’t help but say, ‘I’m glad that he’s my friend or he’s my colleague.’”

Following Scalia’s death in February of 2016, Ginsburg wrote the following tribute:
<blockquote>“From our years together at the D.C. Circuit, we were best buddies. We disagreed now and then, but when I wrote for the Court and received a Scalia dissent, the opinion ultimately released was notably better than my initial circulation. Justice Scalia nailed all the weak spots—the ‘applesauce’ and ‘argle bargle’—and gave me just what I needed to strengthen the majority opinion. He was a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh. The press referred to his ‘energetic fervor,’ ‘astringent intellect,’ ‘peppery prose,’ ‘acumen,’ and ‘affability,’ all apt descriptions. He was eminently quotable, his pungent opinions so clearly stated that his words never slipped from the reader’s grasp. It was my great good fortune to have known him as working colleague and treasured friend.”</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em></a> opens May 10 at Court Theatre.
<p class="caption">Top photo: Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg ride an elephant in India in 1994. (Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)</p>"
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<strong>Since the show opened on March 15, critics have released their reviews of </strong><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/guess-whos-coming-dinner/"><em><strong>Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner</strong></em></a><strong>:</strong>

"...If you like the movie, you’ll be fine reliving your memories. If you hate all that it represented, there is enough subversion here to keep you intellectually engaged. This material is just so interesting to see now...”
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-ent-coming-dinner-review-0327-story.html"><em>Chicago Tribune</em></a>, Chris Jones, 3 Stars

"...In the iconic 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," a young interracial couple forced their parents - and the world by extension - to confront the ugly bigoted recesses festering in even the most outwardly progressive souls. Tim Kreidler's stage adaptation hews close to William Rose's brilliant screenplay. But key differences underline the story's timeliness in a post-Obama world. Directed by Marti Lyons for Court Theatre, what could be a period piece has the bitter bite of today, a time when an actual Nazi just won (unopposed) a Republican congressional primary in Illinois."
<em><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/the-stakes-stay-high-for-guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-at-court-theatre/">Chicago Sun-Times</a></em>, Catey Sullivan, 3.5 Stars

"...The acting in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was great, but I loved the parts played by Sydney Charles as Tillie and Dan Waller as Monsignor Ryan. Charles almost stole the show with her portrayal of Tillie. She was amazingly funny with her spot on performance and Waller was equally brilliant. We have had the pleasure of seeing Sydney Charles in several performances, and she is an exceptional actress worth taking a serious look at as a Jeff Award Winner for her role as Tillie."
<a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/lets-play/2018/03/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/"><em>Chicago Now</em></a>, Rick and Brenda McCain, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...It has been 50 years since the movie "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" brought our attention to interracial marriage and race relations. It was ground breaking at the time, but it was based on 1967 attitudes so how can a stage play drawn from the film be relevant today? Well, it is! Todd Kreidler's smartly written adaptation adds a few updates to the classic film script and stays true to the story with a 21st century interpretation. It is the perfect product for the Court Theatre and this production, directed by Marti Lyons with Associate Director Wardell Julius Clark, is outstanding!"
<a href="http://www.aroundthetownchicago.com/theatre-reviews/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-reviewed-by-michael-horn/">Around The Town Chicago</a>, Michael Horn, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...Originating as a movie with a screenplay by William Rose, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" premiered in 1967 at the height of the civil rights movement. And while it’s tempting to credit its trio of lead actors-Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Sidney Poitier-for engendering a mountain of good will large enough to endear this portrait of interracial love to a market audience, a reevaluation fifty years later suggests that "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" gets by on more than just charm."
<a href="https://www.newcitystage.com/2018/03/25/unprecedented-arrival-a-review-of-guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-at-court-theatre/">NewCity Chicago</a>, Kevin Greene, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...The tension is palpable. But the real fireworks begin with the arrival of Prentice's parents. John Prentice Sr. (Dexter Zollicoffer, with a fine searing edge of bitterness), is, for his own reasons, even more opposed to the marriage than Matt, while his wife, Mary (Jacqueline Williams, in a fine mix of loyalty and reason), is deeply protective of both her husband and son."
<a href="https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2018/03/28/guess-who-s-coming-dinner-sets-table-truths-about-love-and-race">WTTW</a>, Hedy Weiss, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...Now, Hyde Park's Court Theatre presents a stage adaptation of the script by William Rose, and it proves as timely and relevant today as it was in 1967. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (here adapted by Todd Kreidler and directed by Marti Lyons) is, at its core, a story of two world views at odds: those who see the world as it is, and those who see it as it could be."
<a href="https://thirdcoastreview.com/2018/03/27/theater-review-guess-whos-coming-dinner/">Third Coast Review</a>, Lisa Trifone, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...Interacting with the marvelous and interestingly symbolic stage setting by Scott Davis where the entire apartment, from carpeting on the floor to every piece of furniture and even the cactus house plants are white with black accents, the actors draw in the audience so effectively that you forget that you're watching a play. Lighting (Paul Toben and Andre Pluess) and sound (Christopher M. LaPort) featuring 1960's style music completes the atmosphere. All in all and evening of great, thought provoking and often humorous theatre."
<a href="http://www.picturethispost.com/court-theatre-guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/">Picture This Post</a>, Steve Bellinger, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...It was fun to be a part of this mixed age group audience for this particular play in the center of Hyde Park, long recognized as a liberal multi-racial and multi-cultural community. The laughs and gasps were more audible and more frequent then I have heard in a while and which I am certain was a result of many of the audience members understanding this material in a more intimate and first hand way, as either participants or witnesses to similar real life stories."
<a href="http://chicagotheaterandarts.com/2018/03/26/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-is-delicious/">Chicago Theatre and Arts</a>, Jodie Jacobs, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/guess-whos-coming-dinner/"><em>Guess Who's Coming to Dinner</em></a> runs through April 15, 2018.
<p class="caption">Photo of Michael Aaron Pogue and Jacqueline Williams by Michael Brosilow.</p>"
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Court will be expanding the <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/community-engagement/education-initiative/artists-in-schools/">Artists-in-the-Schools</a> (AIS) Residencies to three additional South Side high schools this fall. Additionally, the Education team will be piloting short term AIS Residencies. While the typical residency is between twelve and fourteen sessions, these short term residencies will last between six and eight sessions. These briefer residencies will offer schools greater scheduling flexibility, while allowing Court to reach more students.

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      string(8222) "<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10644" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/origin-blog-reviews.jpg" alt="Edward Gero as Justice Antonin Scalia" width="800" height="300" />Since opening night on May 19, critics have issued their opinions of <i>The Originalist. </i>While the majority opinion recommends the production, Chris Jones over at the <em>Chicago Tribune</em> offers a mild dissent. In the spirit of civil discourse, we present you with a variety of critic viewpoints. But don't let them decide; join us at Court Theatre and you be the judge. <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em> is on stage through June 10.</a>

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"It depicts robust, aggressive, passionate disagreement in a context of respect and developing friendship. It accepts power and winning as measures of success, but decency and kindness as even more important measures of a person. In that regard, it feels like a play we need right now."
<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/the-originalist-depicts-antonin-scalia-as-both-mentor-and-scholar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Chicago Sun Times,</em> Steven Oxman, ★★★</a>

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“<em>The Originalist</em> triumphs by uniting a stimulating script with a fascinating central character and an exceptional lead performance. [. . . ] Love him or hate him, Antonin Scalia is wonderful company for an evening. For this boon to audiences, Edward Gero and John Strand deserve much thanks.”
<a href="https://chicagolandtheaterreviews.com/chicagoland-productions/originalist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Chicagoland Theater Reviews,</em> Dan Zeff, ★★★</a>

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“Court Theatre, under the leadership of Charles Newell, continues to bring topnotch and relevant productions to the community [. . .] The Originalist is another worthy production that will not disappoint.”
<a href="http://www.aroundthetownchicago.com/theatre-reviews/the-originalist-reviewed-by-michael-horn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Around the Town Chicago</em>, Michael Horn, ★★★</a>

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“A doppelganger for the late justice, Gero thoroughly inhabits the role of Scalia in John Strand’s 2015 play, The Originalist. Shuffling across the stage, singing an aria, debating legal points, Gero is Scalia, never out of character until after he takes a final bow and exits the stage sans shuffle.”
<a href="http://chicago.splashmags.com/index.php/2018/05/20/the-originalist-review-order-in-the-court-theatre/#gsc.tab=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Splash Magazines</em>, Leanne Star</a>

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“Court Theatre brings us a masterpiece that is interesting, thought-provoking and an exhilarating debate in <em>The Originalist</em> by John Strand.”
<a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/lets-play/2018/05/the-originalist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-ChicagoNow</em>, Rick and Brenda McCain</a>

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"Do plan to leaf through the copy of the US Constitution handed to you with your program with new eyes, renewed reverence, and passion. That you will likely do so speaks to the considerable power of this play.  Plan to be engaged anew in the visions of our founding fathers."
<a href="http://www.picturethispost.com/court-theatre-presents-the-originalist-review/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Picture This Post,</em> Amy Munice</a>

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"Scalia, one imagines, would have liked being back in Hyde Park. I just think a man of his heft would have preferred to be at the center of a more complicated play, and a more truthful production. And most liberals — who may well find the characterization here of Scalia as a lovable, kind, brilliant and principled curmudgeon infuriating — would not disagree."
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-ent-originalist-court-review-0522-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Chicago Tribune,</em> Chris Jones, 2.5 Stars</a>

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"Gero’s portrayal of Scalia is impeccable. He captures the late justice’s penchant for showmanship, his sharp sense of humor, pugilistic stubbornness, and general mannerisms... Strand’s message of open-mindedness and respectful discourse still shines through, and makes <em>The Originalist</em> a worthwhile watch for anyone willing to challenge their own, seemingly unbendable, political stance."
<a href="https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2018/5/22/originalist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Chicago Maroon</em>, Patrick Egon</a>

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"... <span style="font-weight: 400;">Strand delivers a think piece that pushes people to consider standing on a middle ground, where we acknowledge diverse voices and ideas, even if we do not always agree with them... </span>I believe people will find inspiring hope in<em> The Originalist</em> because it romanticizes the possibilities of what we could become if we work together to find common ground.<span style="font-weight: 400;">"
</span><a href="http://perform.ink/review-the-originalist-at-court-theatre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Performink,</em> Naima Dawson</a>

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"There’s little Americans like more than a legal drama—the upstart v. the establishment, the idealist v. the realist, the new v. the old—may the winner expose our present moral condition through a fistfight sublimated into debate... But “The Originalist” does not deliver the customary satisfaction through exploration of the case..."
<a href="https://www.newcitystage.com/2018/05/21/unoriginal-originalist-a-review-of-the-originalist-at-court-theatre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Newcity,</em> Irene Hsaio</a>

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"<span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Court Theatre</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> production, directed by Molly Smith, proves that although Scalia may have been a “monster,” as his opponents called him (to his delight), he was really a charming monster... </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Edward Gero, who also has played Scalia from the beginning, is masterful at recreating the justice’s style and bearing. Wheeler, who performed in two other productions of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Originalist</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, is superb as Cat."
</span><a href="https://thirdcoastreview.com/2018/05/22/court-theatres-originalist-two-legal-intellects-skirmish-political-extremes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Third Coast Review,</em> Nancy Bishop</a>

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"<span style="font-weight: 400;">The play features two fine lead performers. Edward Gero is the proudly conservative Scalia, who is a self-described “originalist” in his interpretations of the US. Constitution. An “originalist” is an individual who believes in the literal, original meaning of a text."
</span><a href="http://readbuzz.com/2018/05/22/theater-review-court-theatres-the-originalist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Buzz, </em>Syd Slobodnik</a>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">"The play's premise could have been lifted from a 1940s screwball comedy—verbally adept conservative white male judge hires an equally verbally adept liberal, female, African-American law clerk ... their constant sparring does have a rom-com feel to it, and that adds yet another layer to this </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">rich, fascinating, exceptionally well-written and well-acted play."</span>
<a href="https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-originalist-court-theatre/Content?oid=48647721" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>-Chicago Reader,</em> Jack Helbig</a>

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"a fascinating, provocative evening of theatre firing on all cylinders ... John Strand’s <em>The Originalist</em> is a richly-complicated exploration of The Honorable Antonin Scalia, showcasing a superb performance by Edward Gero."
<a href="https://www.conversationswithedtracy.com/picksinsix/2017/5/23/picksinsix-review-the-originalist"><em>-Conversations with Ed Tracy</em></a>
<p class="caption">Photo of Edward Gero as Justice Antonin Scalia by Gary W. Sweetman</p>"
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<em><b>King v. Burwell</b></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><em>In June 2015, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to keep Obamacare intact.</em>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Court’s next bit of </span><b>interpretive jiggery-pokery</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> involves other parts of the Act that purportedly presuppose the availability of tax credits on both federal and state Exchanges. [. . .]</span> <b>Pure applesauce</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”</span></p>


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<strong><em>Obergefell v. Hodges</em></strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">After the Court ruled in support of gay marriage, Scalia pointedly critiqued the opening lines of Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion.</span></em>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: ‘The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,’ </span><b>I would hide my head in a bag</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story </span><b>to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”</span></p>


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<em><b>United States v. Virginia</b></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a 7-1 vote, the Court ruled against the Virginia Military Institute’s policy of admitting only men.</span></i>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"If it were impossible for individual human beings (or groups of human beings) to act autonomously in effective pursuit of a common goal,</span><b> the game of soccer would not exist</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">."</span></p>


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<em><b>Community Nutrition Institute v. Block</b></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 1984, Scalia waxed poetic about lawmaking and sausage.</span></i>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This case, involving legal requirements for the content and labeling of meat products such as frankfurters, affords a rare opportunity to explore simultaneously both parts of Bismarck’s aphorism that </span><b>‘No man should see how laws or sausages are made.</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">’”</span></p>


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<em><b>PGA Tour Inc. v. Martin</b></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">: </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the 2001 dissent, Scalia discussed the ever-important role of golf in the law.</span></i>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">"If one assumes, however, that the PGA TOUR has some legal obligation to play classic, Platonic golf—and if one assumes the correctness of all the other wrong turns the Court has made to get to this point—then we Justices must confront what is indeed an awesome responsibility. It has been rendered the solemn duty of the Supreme Court of the United States, laid upon it by Congress in pursuance of the Federal Government’s power ‘[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States,’ </span><b>to decide What Is Golf</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">. I am sure that the Framers of the Constitution, aware of the 1457 edict of King James II of Scotland prohibiting golf because it interfered with the practice of archery, fully expected that sooner or later the paths of golf and government, the law and the links, would once again cross, and that the judges of this august Court would some day have to wrestle with </span><b>that age-old jurisprudential question</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, for which their years of study in the law have so well prepared them: Is someone riding around a golf course from shot to shot really a golfer? The answer, we learn, is yes. The Court ultimately concludes, and it will henceforth be the Law of the Land, that walking is not a ‘fundamental” aspect of golf.’”</span></p>
Check out <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em></a> at Court Theatre, May 10 – June 10, 2028.
<p class="caption">Photo: The Roberts Court (October 2010 – February 2016).</p>"
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<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;">Is the Constitution a living document, one that should change and evolve over time, or is it a text frozen in the moment of its creation, strictly bound by the Founding Fathers’ original intentions?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;">David A. Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, wrote <i>The Living Constitution</i> (Oxford University Press, 2010) to address this question.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Strauss has served as Special Counsel to the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee and as Assistant Solicitor General of the United States, and argued nineteen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Court’s Resident Dramaturg about Justice Scalia and the debate over the nature of the Constitution.</p>

<h5>What is your definition of originalism?</h5>
I think originalism is the claim that we can figure out what the Constitution allows and forbids by looking at decisions made by the Founders—decisions made at the time the Constitution was written. My view is that just cannot be done. You cannot get answers to today’s issues by consulting the intentions of people who lived in an utterly different country in the late 18th century. And because originalism really doesn’t work in the way its proponents claim, the appeal to the Founders ends up being a kind of rhetorical move that people use to accomplish something else. Originalists, I think, often find principles in the text and in the decisions of the founding generation that they want to find there. They might be perfectly good principles, but they should be defended on their own merits, not by invoking the authority of the Founders or the text.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
<h5>What kind of originalist was Antonin Scalia?</h5>
Justice Scalia was regarded as a conservative, but one thing people do not always realize is that originalism is not necessarily a conservative approach. The most influential originalist of the last 100 years was not Justice Scalia at all. It was Justice Hugo Black, an intellectual force for civil rights and free speech on the Warren Court. In most respects, Justice Black was what we would call a liberal, and he very much fancied himself an originalist.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

What that tells me is that originalism is something people use to attack the tradition they grew up in. Justice Black, who was from Alabama, grew up in a tradition of racism, in a time when there was Jim Crow segregation and repression in the South, and he hated it. So he appealed to the Founders, claiming that they believed in racial equality and civil liberties. Racial equality and civil liberties are good things, but it’s not so clear that the Founders thought so!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

Justice Scalia grew up in the Warren Court era, when the Court was aggressively protecting what the Court saw as disadvantaged groups in society, and Justice Scalia thought the Warren Court went too far. So he portrayed the Founders in a different way.
<h5>Your view of the Constitution is the opposite of originalism. Could you explain what you mean by a “living” Constitution?</h5>
One of the strengths of our Constitutional system is that it maintains certain principles as fundamental, but it shapes and adapts those principles to changing circumstances, changing times, and to particular crises that arise.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>That’s because our system, it seems to me, is based mostly on precedent and tradition, instead of simply looking for an authoritative command from the Founders or the text of the Constitution. That’s the sense in which the Constitution is “living”: it is able to adapt without losing touch with the past, by continuing to develop principles that have been worked out over time.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
<h5>What are examples of the “living Constitution” in action?</h5>
There are a lot of them, because major events in the history of this country have changed our understanding of the Constitution in many ways. Those changes are now built into our institutions and our traditions and even our ways of thinking about each other. Take racial equality, for example. The Supreme Court’s decisions establishing principles of racial equality rely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, but when that Amendment was adopted, the idea that African Americans were equal to whites was a radical position. The Amendment just gave blacks certain limited rights. No one, for example, thought that the Amendment meant that there was a right to interracial marriage. But over time, we made progress. Americans came to understand that racial discrimination was intolerable in all its forms. It took a while for the country to come around to that view, but the country did come around, and it is now a point of essentially universal consensus—as much a part of the Constitution as anything you can think of, even though the text was never amended. I could give you a lot of other examples; women’s equality is in a way an even more dramatic case. ■

Check out <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em></a> at Court Theatre, May 10 - June 10, 2028."
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<h5>You observed that “Nobody is neutral on the subject of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.” What is it about him that evokes such passionate responses across the political spectrum?</h5>
One primary reason is that he was a puncher. He was pugilistic in his approach to what he believed and that really antagonized people who disagreed with him and caused people who agreed with him to stand on their feet and cheer. It was his nature to be controversial in public and we see that in his words from the bench. Part of what led me to first research Scalia was how vicious and vitriolic the comments were about him, not just as a Supreme Court Justice, but as an individual. But when I began to speak with people who worked with him and knew him well, he was this wonderful, paternal, humorous, brilliant individual. I thought there must be an interesting way to reconcile those two extremes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
<h5>By exploring Scalia’s character, did you hope there was going to be a collective lesson we could learn, or a political rift that could be healed? Or was it really just purely intellectual, to answer the question: how does he tick?</h5>
Many people join me in feeling alarm at the polarization of political discourse, if we can even dignify it with this term. I wanted to use Scalia as an example of someone who represents the extreme and see what it would be like to put him in the same ring with someone who is his polar opposite. We match him with a woman of color in her twenties, fresh out of law school, and what happens is that this pairing is not a mismatch: she learns how to punch. The historic Scalia was someone who welcomed debate from his clerks and made a point of hiring a liberal law clerk because it inspired heated debate. He loved that. But I think there’s an intellectual generosity in the idea that, ‘I don’t agree with you, but I will listen to you explain your condition respectfully and then I’ll answer you respectfully,’ and that’s how he treated the people around him. He was much tougher on his fellow justices. When they did something that he thought was wrong— that went against his own originalist interpretation of the Constitution—he could be vicious. You wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of Antonin Scalia when he was reading a dissent to the bench. He frequently excoriated the other justices when he thought that they were violating the principles of the Constitution as he saw them.
<h5>Were there particular decisions of his from the bench that you had at the forefront of your mind as you were thinking about creating his portrait?</h5>
I went back and read all of his dissents. Scalia was a brilliant thinker and he had a comic timing that was really remarkable. He was funny from the bench, often to the chagrin of the people of opposing view. I think someone did a survey of how many times each justice solicited humor from fellow justices or the Court during a hearing and Scalia did so at a rate of about ten times that of any other. He knew how to deliver a line. There was a certain performer in Scalia, which is another thing that really interested me. He loved opera and he even appeared in a few operas as an extra. Scalia was a larger than life character and I think he really enjoyed that. He used the bench with its very theatrical setting, its costumes, and its lighting to perform. He performed from the bench.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

The play was embraced in Washington by enthusiastics audiences during Scalia’s lifetime, and now is proliferating in a new way in a new political moment. What do you hope to see happen as people come to the theater now and watch this piece?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

At the heart of the play is the idea that it is possible for two people of extremely divergent viewpoints to argue their case and at the same time not lose respect for one another and even, perhaps, gain respect for one another. The alternative is for us all to retreat into a kind of childish, reactionary, hateful response to people with whom we disagree politically. But here are two people who are extreme opposites of one another but have a certain amount of hope to move towards the other’s position. If you don’t have the respect to listen, research, and learn from an opposite viewpoint,<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>you’ll never be effective in arguing against it. So that’s the hope from this, I think. In the play they come to respect one another in a way that neither one of them would have anticipated.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>
<h5>And as you say there’s a historical basis in the life of Justice Scalia for that hopefulness.</h5>
You need only look at his most famous buddy sitting next to him on the bench, Justice Ginsburg. His positions may have driven her crazy from time to time but she loved him for his qualities as a person: his humor, the way he mentored his clerks— liberal or conservative—and the way he was a natural teacher. She has said that there are many times when she would submit one of her opinions to Scalia, asking him to read and comment on it. He was tough on her but she said that he made her argument better, stronger, more accurate. In reading her opinion, he probably disagreed with every line, but he took it seriously and worked to strengthen her argument. I think he greatly admired her courage and he saw how difficult it was for a woman in those days to advance in law and then rise all the way to the Supreme Court. I think he would begin from the position of: if you’re seated next to me on the bench, you’re a remarkable person and you are very talented in matters of law or you wouldn’t be here. If past that point you also happen to have a wonderful sense of humor and you’re just a real humanist and and intellectual, as is true of Justice Ginsburg, she had his respect. ■

<i>-Edited by Ella Hester</i>

Catch <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em></a> at Court Theatre May 10 - June 10, 2018."
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;">When Washington, D.C.-based actor <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/4104/">Edward Gero</a> agreed to take on the role of Antonin Scalia, he had no idea of the unlikely relationship that would develop between him and the late Supreme Court justice. Prior to Scalia’s passing in 2016, Gero had visited “Nino” dozens of times, and bonded with him about their shared backgrounds, love of Shakespeare, and passion for language. Gero talked with Shelby Wenner, Court’s Associate Director of Marketing, about his process to understand this character, and his hopes in bringing <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><i>The Originalist </i></a>to Chicago.</p>

<h5>Tell me a little bit about the process of getting to know Justice Scalia, from an artist’s perspective.</h5>
For me, the actual person and the character in the biographical play are deeply intertwined. I had the opportunity to meet Justice Scalia about six to seven months before starting rehearsal, but I decided that was too soon; I had to do my own research first! So I read biographies on him, I read The Federalist Papers, books on the Supreme Court, and so on.

In November of 2014, I was invited as Justice Scalia’s guest to a hearing, and lunch in his chambers afterwards. I was sitting in his guest seats, and when he came out into the Court, he looked over at me. We locked eyes and regarded each other—it was a very long stare, and I thought to myself, “As long as I don’t melt, I’ll be fine.” He finally looked away, and off he went. He was very engaged in that particular hearing, asking a lot of questions and using many behaviors that I could use as an actor.

We had lunch afterwards, and he was very charming. He said to me, “I want you to know that I won’t be seeing the play, but I’m glad they got someone good to do it.” We talked about some ideas that I had to understand his legal interpretations and theory. I used an analogy of how I approach Shakespearean work: with text analysis, syntax, and semantics, deriving meaning from the text itself. He said that this was perfectly analogous to how he approaches the United States Constitution. This really confirmed my early decisions about how I thought his mind worked. We talked about music, Italy, our New Jersey roots, our religious background. He had a command of language that I hadn’t experienced before. He said to come back anytime I liked, and I took him up on that offer.
<h5>What was it like meeting him?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></h5>
Life-altering. Inspiring to be in the presence of someone who had such commitment to democracy and the law. What surprised me about him was his humility. Like a good actor, you serve the playwright. Like a good justice, you serve the law. Being in the courtroom is like being in the theatre… words really matter.

Has acting as Justice Scalia in multiple productions of <i>The Originalist </i>as the world changes drastically affected your relationship with the play’s meaning?

I was present for the <i>Obergefell v. Hodges</i> hearing [the landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples are guaranteed the fundamental right to marry], I had lunch with him afterwards in his chambers, and I performed <i>The Originalist</i> that night. The audience was trying to read the tea leaves to see if there was anything there—but we didn’t talk politics. For him, it didn’t matter if you didn’t agree with him. What was important to him was what you thought, and how you arrived at it. Let’s challenge it, poke holes in it, and move on. The fact that we vilify people who disagree with us was not something he was doing. Fundamentally, it was about taking the law and democracy seriously.

What hass changed since his passing and the last election cycle are audience reactions and expectations. What started out as a lecture to the political left about being open-minded has become not only that, but also a cautionary tale to the right. A consistent and transparent conservative to whom words matter is seen as a hope, and people appreciate him more because you at least know what you’re going to get every time.
<h5>When not performing on stage, you are on faculty at George Mason University. How does working with and teaching students interact with your profession as an actor?</h5>
There is definitely influence; <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/jade-wheeler/">Jade</a> [Wheeler, playing Cat] is actually my former student! We come by the relationship organically and honestly, which is a great boon to the play. It’s been wonderful to work with her.

I’ve been at George Mason University for over 25 years. My students value my role as a professional actor, as a role model for students showing that having a life in both a theatre and in a community is possible. I’ve made a serious commitment to regional theatre, but I spend nine hours a day at George Mason on Mondays, the Equity day off. This schedule frees me to go to rehearsals, bring best practices back to the classroom, and my students are able to come to performances to see me hopefully walking the walk.
<h5>What are your hopes for bringing <i>The Originalist</i> to a Chicago audience? How do you hope this play lives on in the future?</h5>
I love Chicago audiences: they’re smart, hip, critical, diverse. From the vibrancy of a college town, to the working class, and all the way up the scale. They like grit, and they like new ideas. I’m excited to see how they respond.

As a Shakespearean actor, I’m used to playing a lot of characters people love to hate, but I’ve never played one that audiences hate to love. It is my hope that audiences get a sense of the human being that I got to know, and in so doing, reconsider their ideas of the man and the Justice. I hope the play engages audiences to reconsider how they conduct their civil discourse. Work at listening, especially when we disagree. Get out, get engaged, express yourself, and vote! ■

Don't miss Edward Gero as Justice Antonin Scalia in<em> <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/">The Originalist</a></em>, May 10 - June 10, 2018.
<p class="caption">Photo by Gary W. Sweetman.</p>"
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On January 31, 2018, Court Theatre lost a friend and supporter, Professor Jack Halpern. Jack served as a member of the Court Theatre Board of Trustees from 1988 until his death.

Jack Halpern joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the University of Chicago in 1962 and remained there, as well as a resident of Hyde Park, for the rest of his career. His contributions to chemistry included hundreds of published scientific articles and serving as editor for numerous scientific journals. During his lifetime, he received many honors and much recognition for his work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>

Beyond his scientific knowledge and expertise, Jack always had a fondness for the arts. His daughter, Janice, said, “Science was his calling, but art in all forms was his passion.” Jack and his late wife, Helen, were fans of modern art, especially Expressionist, Cubist, and Surrealist works, and over the years they developed an extensive collection.

Jack also was a longtime fan of Court’s work. Janice recalled, “He loved being part of the Court family. He felt like an insider because of his long connection with the theatre, his participation on the Board, and attendance at the many Opening Nights and other Court-sponsored events, where he could enjoy the company of its wonderful staff and patrons.” His younger daughter, Nina, added, “When I spoke with my father on the phone in later years, one of the most frequent topics of conversation was his immense pride in whatever the most recent production of Court Theatre happened to be.”

During Jack’s service on the Board, he saw Court through many changes, including <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/charles-newell/">Charles Newell</a>’s appointment as Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director, and the expansion of the theatre’s work to include new adaptations and pieces from the African American canon.

During his nearly 30 years on the Board, Jack’s support was integral to the theatre’s success.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In the 1990s, Jack and Helen established a Charitable Gift Annuity, indicating that after both of their deaths, the remaining funds would be distributed equally to Court Theatre and the Smart Museum. Since the Annuity was established over two decades ago, it has grown significantly from its original value. The distributed funds will be added to Court’s endowment, helping the theatre fulfill its mission of dedication to innovation, inquiry, intellectual engagement, and community service for next season, and seasons to come.

Nina said of her father, “I think he took great pride in the high quality of Court’s productions, and was happy to contribute to that ongoing excellence in whatever way he could.”

Court is humbled to carry on Jack’s and Helen’s legacy of passion for the arts. ■

<strong>Have you already included Court in your will or estate plans? Would you like to learn more about adding a bequest in your will to support Court or designating Court as beneficiary of your retirement account or life insurance plan? Contact Susan M. Zellner, Director of Development, at (773) 834-3305 or <a href="mailto:szellner@uchicago.edu">email</a>.</strong>
<p class="caption">PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO NEWS OFFICE</p>"
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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10193" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/firstpreview-chant.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>Thursday, May 10: First Preview Tasting with CHANT and Discussion
</strong>Enjoy samples from Dining Partner <a href="https://www.chantchicago.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CHANT</a> pre-show in the lobby, and a post-play discussion led by <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/seema-sueko/">Seema Sueko</a>, Arena Stage Deputy Artistic Director.
<strong><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/7:30%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist/2018-04-16/3320/">Buy Tickets for May 10 at 7:30PM</a></strong>

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10197" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/preview-discussions.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>May 11-17: Preview Performances with Post-Play Discussion
</strong>Following all preview performances, <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/seema-sueko/">Seema Sueko</a>, Arena Stage Deputy Artistic Director, or <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/4104/">Edward Gero</a> who portrays Justice Scalia, or other members of the artistic team lead a discussion with the audience.
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/#calendar"><strong>Buy Tickets for a Preview May 11-17</strong></a>

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10194" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/strand-john.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>Friday, May 18: <em>The Originalist</em> Playwright John Strand
</strong>Following the Friday 8:00PM performance, Charles MacArthur Award winning playwright <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/john-strand/">John Strand</a> leads the audience discussion.
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/8:00%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist/2018-04-16/3327/"><strong>Buy Tickets for May 18 at 8PM</strong></a>

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10198" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/nussbaum-corvino.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>Sunday, May 20: Martha Nussbaum and John Corvino on Religion, Law, and LGBT Rights
</strong>Following the Sunday 2:30PM matinee, <a href="https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/nussbaum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martha Nussbaum</a>, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, joins <a href="https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/ae9123" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Corvino</a>, Professor of Philosophy at Wayne State University and author of <em>Debating Same-Sex Marriage</em>, to discuss Supreme Court decisions on religious liberty and LGBT rights.
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/2:30%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist/2018-04-16/3329/"><strong>Buy Tickets for May 20 at 2:30PM</strong></a>

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<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10610" src="https://www.courttheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/bevington-may24.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="137" />
<strong>Thursday, May 24: Theatre scholar David Bevington
</strong>Following the 7:30PM performance, join us for a discussion with <a href="https://english.uchicago.edu/emeritus/david-bevington-emeritus-teaching-2016-17" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Bevington</a>, author, theatre scholar, and University of Chicago Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, and <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/charles-newell/">Charles Newell</a>, Court's Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director.
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/7:30%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist/2018-04-26/3332/"><strong>Buy Tickets for May 24 at 7:30PM</strong></a>

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<strong>Saturday, May 26: Elliot Feldman, Attorney and Legal Advisor for <em>The Originalist</em>
</strong>Following the Saturday 3:00PM matinee, enjoy a discussion led by <a href="https://www.bakerlaw.com/ElliotJFeldman#overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elliot Feldman</a>, Senior Partner at Baker &amp; Hostetler LLP in Washington, D.C., UChicago Alumnus, and Legal Consultant for <em>The Originalist</em>.
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/3:00%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist/2018-04-16/3334/"><strong>Buy Tickets for May 26 at 3PM</strong></a>

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<strong>Sunday, June 3: Alison LaCroix and Jason Merchant on Rhetoric and Legal Interpretation
</strong>Following the Sunday 2:30PM matinee
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<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/purchase/2:30%20pm%20-%20The%20Originalist%20(OC)/2018-04-16/3343/"><strong>Buy Tickets for June 3 at 2:30PM</strong></a>"
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In <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/people/john-strand/">John Strand</a>’s <a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em></a>, Justice Antonin Scalia—a notorious proponent of constitutional originalism, one who staunchly fought against judicial provisions for abortion, affirmative action, and gay marriage—mentors and befriends a liberal law clerk. Despite their ideological differences, the two find some common ground: love of arguing, respect for democracy, blackjack.

Their camaraderie isn’t merely a product of Strand’s imagination. In Scalia’s early years on the court, he hired one liberal law clerk each year to keep staff debates lively. “I love to argue,” he said, “I’ve always loved to argue. And I love to point out the weaknesses of the opposing arguments. [. . .] I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, ‘I better reexamine my position!’”

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The two justices, though ideological adversaries, had a shared love and respect for one another’s intellect rarely found in today’s divided political world. “If you can’t disagree ardently with your colleagues about some issues of law and yet personally still be friends, get another job, for Pete’s sake,” Scalia asserted. “As annoyed as you might be about his zinging dissent, he’s so utterly charming, so amusing, so sometimes outrageous, you can’t help but say, ‘I’m glad that he’s my friend or he’s my colleague.’”

Following Scalia’s death in February of 2016, Ginsburg wrote the following tribute:
<blockquote>“From our years together at the D.C. Circuit, we were best buddies. We disagreed now and then, but when I wrote for the Court and received a Scalia dissent, the opinion ultimately released was notably better than my initial circulation. Justice Scalia nailed all the weak spots—the ‘applesauce’ and ‘argle bargle’—and gave me just what I needed to strengthen the majority opinion. He was a jurist of captivating brilliance and wit, with a rare talent to make even the most sober judge laugh. The press referred to his ‘energetic fervor,’ ‘astringent intellect,’ ‘peppery prose,’ ‘acumen,’ and ‘affability,’ all apt descriptions. He was eminently quotable, his pungent opinions so clearly stated that his words never slipped from the reader’s grasp. It was my great good fortune to have known him as working colleague and treasured friend.”</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/the-originalist/"><em>The Originalist</em></a> opens May 10 at Court Theatre.
<p class="caption">Top photo: Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg ride an elephant in India in 1994. (Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)</p>"
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<strong>Since the show opened on March 15, critics have released their reviews of </strong><a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/guess-whos-coming-dinner/"><em><strong>Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner</strong></em></a><strong>:</strong>

"...If you like the movie, you’ll be fine reliving your memories. If you hate all that it represented, there is enough subversion here to keep you intellectually engaged. This material is just so interesting to see now...”
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-ent-coming-dinner-review-0327-story.html"><em>Chicago Tribune</em></a>, Chris Jones, 3 Stars

"...In the iconic 1967 film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," a young interracial couple forced their parents - and the world by extension - to confront the ugly bigoted recesses festering in even the most outwardly progressive souls. Tim Kreidler's stage adaptation hews close to William Rose's brilliant screenplay. But key differences underline the story's timeliness in a post-Obama world. Directed by Marti Lyons for Court Theatre, what could be a period piece has the bitter bite of today, a time when an actual Nazi just won (unopposed) a Republican congressional primary in Illinois."
<em><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/the-stakes-stay-high-for-guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-at-court-theatre/">Chicago Sun-Times</a></em>, Catey Sullivan, 3.5 Stars

"...The acting in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was great, but I loved the parts played by Sydney Charles as Tillie and Dan Waller as Monsignor Ryan. Charles almost stole the show with her portrayal of Tillie. She was amazingly funny with her spot on performance and Waller was equally brilliant. We have had the pleasure of seeing Sydney Charles in several performances, and she is an exceptional actress worth taking a serious look at as a Jeff Award Winner for her role as Tillie."
<a href="http://www.chicagonow.com/lets-play/2018/03/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/"><em>Chicago Now</em></a>, Rick and Brenda McCain, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...It has been 50 years since the movie "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" brought our attention to interracial marriage and race relations. It was ground breaking at the time, but it was based on 1967 attitudes so how can a stage play drawn from the film be relevant today? Well, it is! Todd Kreidler's smartly written adaptation adds a few updates to the classic film script and stays true to the story with a 21st century interpretation. It is the perfect product for the Court Theatre and this production, directed by Marti Lyons with Associate Director Wardell Julius Clark, is outstanding!"
<a href="http://www.aroundthetownchicago.com/theatre-reviews/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-reviewed-by-michael-horn/">Around The Town Chicago</a>, Michael Horn, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...Originating as a movie with a screenplay by William Rose, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" premiered in 1967 at the height of the civil rights movement. And while it’s tempting to credit its trio of lead actors-Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy and Sidney Poitier-for engendering a mountain of good will large enough to endear this portrait of interracial love to a market audience, a reevaluation fifty years later suggests that "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" gets by on more than just charm."
<a href="https://www.newcitystage.com/2018/03/25/unprecedented-arrival-a-review-of-guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-at-court-theatre/">NewCity Chicago</a>, Kevin Greene, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...The tension is palpable. But the real fireworks begin with the arrival of Prentice's parents. John Prentice Sr. (Dexter Zollicoffer, with a fine searing edge of bitterness), is, for his own reasons, even more opposed to the marriage than Matt, while his wife, Mary (Jacqueline Williams, in a fine mix of loyalty and reason), is deeply protective of both her husband and son."
<a href="https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2018/03/28/guess-who-s-coming-dinner-sets-table-truths-about-love-and-race">WTTW</a>, Hedy Weiss, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...Now, Hyde Park's Court Theatre presents a stage adaptation of the script by William Rose, and it proves as timely and relevant today as it was in 1967. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (here adapted by Todd Kreidler and directed by Marti Lyons) is, at its core, a story of two world views at odds: those who see the world as it is, and those who see it as it could be."
<a href="https://thirdcoastreview.com/2018/03/27/theater-review-guess-whos-coming-dinner/">Third Coast Review</a>, Lisa Trifone, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...Interacting with the marvelous and interestingly symbolic stage setting by Scott Davis where the entire apartment, from carpeting on the floor to every piece of furniture and even the cactus house plants are white with black accents, the actors draw in the audience so effectively that you forget that you're watching a play. Lighting (Paul Toben and Andre Pluess) and sound (Christopher M. LaPort) featuring 1960's style music completes the atmosphere. All in all and evening of great, thought provoking and often humorous theatre."
<a href="http://www.picturethispost.com/court-theatre-guess-whos-coming-to-dinner/">Picture This Post</a>, Steve Bellinger, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

"...It was fun to be a part of this mixed age group audience for this particular play in the center of Hyde Park, long recognized as a liberal multi-racial and multi-cultural community. The laughs and gasps were more audible and more frequent then I have heard in a while and which I am certain was a result of many of the audience members understanding this material in a more intimate and first hand way, as either participants or witnesses to similar real life stories."
<a href="http://chicagotheaterandarts.com/2018/03/26/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-is-delicious/">Chicago Theatre and Arts</a>, Jodie Jacobs, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

<a href="https://www.courttheatre.org/season-tickets/2017-2018-season/guess-whos-coming-dinner/"><em>Guess Who's Coming to Dinner</em></a> runs through April 15, 2018.
<p class="caption">Photo of Michael Aaron Pogue and Jacqueline Williams by Michael Brosilow.</p>"
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        <p>The generous gifts of Court donors like you are already being put to work as Court’s new Director of Education Patrese McClain plans for the upcoming school year. And thanks to the generosity of the Betty Lou Smith Fund, all the increased, new, and additional gifts received in support of Court’s Education Initiative have been matched and doubled!</p>
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        <p>Since opening night on May 19, critics have issued their opinions of The Originalist. While the majority opinion recommends the production, Chris Jones over at the Chicago Tribune offers a mild dissent. In the spirit of civil discourse, we present you with a variety of critic viewpoints. But don't let them decide; join us at Court Theatre and you be the judge.</p>
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    var about = new RegExp(/^\/about\/?$/);
    
    var seasonsTickets_sub = new RegExp(/^\/season-tickets\/.+\/?/);
    var planVisit_sub = new RegExp(/^\/plan-your-visit\/.+\/?/);
    var support_sub = new RegExp(/^\/support\/.+\/?/);
    var commEngagement_sub = new RegExp(/^\/community-engagement\/.+\/?/);
    var about_sub = new RegExp(/^\/about\/.+\/?/);

    var blog_sub = new RegExp(/^\/about\/blog\/.+\/?$/);
    var gallery_sub = new RegExp(/^season-tickets\/.+\/.+\/gallery\/.+\/?/);
    var purchase_sub = new RegExp(/^season-tickets\/purchase\/.+\/?/);


    // Arrays of regexps
    var sections = [ seasonsTickets, planVisit, support, commEngagement, about ];
    var subsections = [ seasonsTickets_sub, planVisit_sub, support_sub, commEngagement_sub, about_sub ];
    var specialsections = [ blog_sub, gallery_sub, purchase_sub ];
    var element = null;
    
    for (var i = 0; i < specialsections.length; i++) {
      element = specialsections[i];
      
      var result = element.test(testString);
      
      if(result) {
        if (i==0) {
          console.log('fired blog');
          jQuery('.main-nav > ul.nav > li.menu-item-73 > .nav-drop').css('display', 'block');
        } else if (i == 1) {
          console.log('fired gallery');
          jQuery('.main-nav > ul.nav > li.menu-item-2932 > .nav-drop').css('display', 'block');
        } else if (i == 2) {
          console.log('fired purchase');
          jQuery('.main-nav > ul.nav > li.menu-item-2932 > .nav-drop').css('display', 'block');
        }
       return; 
      }
    }  

      for (var i = 0; i < subsections.length; i++) {

      element = subsections[i];

      // The test. compare the url string to the array of regexps
      var result = element.test(testString);

      // for each true test (result) do another test (i == x) to check which and what classes we are setting.
      if(result) {
        var j = i+1;
        jQuery('.main-nav > ul.nav > li:nth-child(' + j + ') > .nav-drop').css('display', 'block');
        jQuery('li.current').parent('.nav-drop').css('display', 'block');
        jQuery('li.current > .nav-drop').css('display','block');
        return;
      }  
      

    };

    for (var i = 0; i < sections.length; i++) {

       element = sections[i];

       // The test. compare the url string to the array of regexps
        var result = element.test(testString);
        
       // for each true test (result) do another test (i == x) to check which and what classes we are setting.
        if(result) {
          jQuery('li.current > .nav-drop').css('display', 'block');
        }
       
    };
    
 }

  </script>
  
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