THEATER AS MINISTRY

November 17, 2011 from 7:45pm to 10:00pm

Location:
2215 W. North Ave. between Bell and Leavitt (5 minute walk from the Damen Blue line stop)

Contact:
madridstangelo@urbantheaterchicago.org

UrbanTheater Company is partnering with Urban Village Church and The Night Ministry for an evening of Theatre and Ministry. Taking to the Stage and sharing our stories is powerful and life changing. After each performance of Nilo Cruz’s Beauty of the Father, we have had the opportunity to meet and speak directly with members of our audience who have been moved and touched. Not only by the performances, but by the story. Beauty is a story about family, love and reconciliation. To that end, UTC has partnered with Urban Village Church, a Chicago Church that truly practices what it preaches by accepting every single person for who they are and where they are at on this life journey. Urban Village will collect items for Chicago’s Night Ministry; a city organization that assists Chicago’s Homeless and LGBT Youth. A Donation to the Night Ministry gets you a specially priced $10 ticket! Items will be collected at the theatre. Items to bring: travel size toothpaste, shaving items, deodorant, shampoo, Winter Coats, blankets, socks, hats and gloves! Join Pastors Trey Hall and Christian Coon for an intimate Post Show Talk Back discussing themes expressed in the play. Support our efforts to not only bringing amazing Midwest Premieres to the stage, but as we work to partnering with organizations working to heal the world.

by Nilo Cruz (Midwest Premiere)

Directed by Cecilie Keenan

Featuring: Executive Director Ivan Vega and Artistic Director Madrid St. Angelo

October 14 – November 19, 2011

(Thursday-Saturday at 8pm. No Sunday shows.)

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.

General Admission

$20

Location
Wicker Park Arts Center at Paul’s Community Church
2215 W. North Avenue/Levitt (map)
(3 blocks East of Western and 3 blocks West of Damen/Milwaukee)

Free street parking available. The theatre is 3 blocks from the Damen Blue Line stop.

Photo by Anthony Aicardi

UrbanTheater Company will be presenting the Midwest premiere of Sonnets for an Old Century by
José Rivera as part of Steppenwolf’s 2nd annual GARAGE REP, running February 11 – April 24, 2011 in
Steppenwolf’s Merle Reskin Garage Theatre, 1624 N. Halsted St.

Directed by Madrid St. Angelo in collaboration with Juan Castaneda, Sonnets for an
Old Century takes place in a waiting room for the afterlife. There we find a dreamscape filled with
poignant, funny, lyrical and haunting monologues from recently deceased individuals. This moving work
by Obie Award-winning playwright and Academy Award nominated screenwriter Jose Rivera asks the
question, “Where do we go when we die?” If you were offered the chance to comment on the life you
have lived, “What would you say?”

Sonnets for an Old Century features:

Arthur Luis Soria, *Alex Polcyn, Amrita Dhaliwal, *Christian Kain Blackburn, Dru Smith, *Gabi Mayorga, *Gino Marconi, *Hank Hilbert, *Jennifer Walls, *Marilyn Camacho, Marvin Quihada, Meghann Tabor, Mike Cherry, Paloma Nozicka, Phillip E. Jones, Rashaad Hall, *Shanon Matesky, Sojourner Zenobia Wright, Whitney Hayes

Also part of the Garage Rep Productions are Heddatron by Sideshow Theatre Company and The Three
Faces of Doctor Crippen by The Strange Tree Group. These show along with Sonnets for an Old
Century will be running in repertory.

GARAGE REP plays Wednesdays through Sundays at 8 pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 4 pm; with a
three-show marathon on Saturday, February 26, Sunday, February 27 and Sunday, April 24 at 1 pm, 4
pm & 8 pm. The press performances for GARAGE REP will take place on Sunday, February 27 at 1 pm
(Three Faces of Doctor Crippen), 4 pm (Sonnet for an Old Century) and 8 pm (Heddatron).

Tickets for GARAGE REP cost $20 per play and are available through Steppenwolf Audience Services,
1650 N. Halsted St., by calling (312) 335-1650 or online at www.steppenwolf.org. A three-play pass
(currently on sale) is available for $45. Every Wednesday performance (beginning March 2, 2011) is “pay
what you can.” Group discounts are available by calling (312) 932-2422. Single tickets are currently on
sale.

*Denotes UTC Company Member’s