UrbanTheater Company (UTC) presents R.A.W. (Real Aggressive Writing) series, a staged reading community conexión initiative at Batey Urbano in Humboldt Park. UTC ensemble members will direct all three staged readings. The staged reading will be performed March 4, April 1 & May 6 at 7pm at Batey Urbano | 2620 W. Divison St., Chgo, 60622. Suggested donation is $5. To make a reservation email reservations@
CONTACT: Ivan Vega at (708) 370-3138 or
email ivanvega@urbantheaterchicago.org
June 7, 2011
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UrbanTheater Company Announces 2011-2012 Season with Two Pulitzer Prize Winners: Nilo Cruz and Suzan-Lori Parks
CHICAGO, IL – UrbanTheater Company, is proud to announce their 2011-2012 season at the Chicago’s Center for the Performing Arts, where UTC recently became a company in residence.
Following a critically acclaimed production of Obie Winner José Rivera’s Sonnets for an Old Century at the Steppenwolf Garage, UTC begins it’s 6th Season with the Midwest Premiere of Beauty of the Father by Nilo Cruz, directed by Cecile Keenan (Managing Director of Teatro Vista). Keenan was most recently hailed for her work as director of Tanya Saracho’s El Nogalar produced by Teatro Vista in partnership with The Goodman Theatre. Beauty of the Father will feature UTC Ensemble Members and Founders: Ivan Vega (After Dark Award Winner) and Madrid St. Angelo (After Dark Award Winner, Jeff Award Nominee).
UrbanTheater 2011-2012 Season:
Beauty of the Father by Nilo Cruz (Midwest Premiere)
Directed by Cecilie Keenan
October 14 – November 20, 2011
Featuring: Executive Director Ivan Vega and Artistic Director Madrid St. Angelo
Pulitzer Prize Winner, Nilo Cruz’s ‘Beauty of the Father’ follows a young American woman who travels to Andalusia, Spain, to meet her estranged father. While there, she becomes romantically involved with her father’s Moroccan companion. The lover’s triangle provides the setting for an exploration of the conflict between love and sacrifice.
Vega and St. Angelo recently worked together in UTC’s Sold Out production of Reinaldo Povod’s, Cuba and His Teddy Bear and in Vitalist Theatre’s U.S. Premiere adaptation of Calderon de la Barca’s, Life is a Dream by Helen Edmunson’s directed by Liz Carlton Metz.
In Spring 2012, Madrid St. Angelo’s will return to the directing helm for UTC with the Chicago Premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks powerful and controversial play, Fucking A. The premiere will feature Kelly Owens, last seen in UTC’s critically acclaimed Midwest Premiere of Miguel Piñero’s, The Sun Always Shines for the Cool.
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