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Abstract paintings now on
display now at Anne Loucks
Submitted by Anne Loucks
Gallery
The 2018-19 season marks Writers Theatre’s third full season in the company’s
award-winning new home at 325 Tudor Court in Glencoe. Submitted Photo
Writers Theatre announces
shows for 2018-19 season
Submitted by Writers
Theatre
Writers Theatre Artistic
Director Michael Halberstam
and Executive Director
Kathryn M. Lipuma
announce the company’s
2018-19 six-show season,
opening with “Qui
Nguyen’s Vietgone,” with
original music by Shane
Rettig, directed by Lavina
Jadhwani in the Alexandra
C. and John D. Nichols
Theatre.
The season will continue
with William Shakespeare’s
comedy “Twelfth
Night, Or What You Will”
directed by Michael Halberstam
and August Wilson’s
visceral American
classic “Ma Rainey’s
Black Bottom,” directed
by Ron OJ Parson.
Closing the season in
the Nichols Theatre will be
the Pulitzer Prize-winning
musical “Next to Normal,”
with music by Tom Kitt,
book and lyrics by Brian
Yorkey, directed by David
Cromer and music directed
by Andra Velis Simon.
The World Premiere of
“Jen Silverman’s Witch,”
inspired by “The Witch
of Edmonton” by William
Rowley, Thomas Dekker
and John Ford and directed
by Marti Lyons will open
the season in the Gillian
Theatre, followed by Caryl
Churchill’s suspenseful
“A Number,” directed by
Robin Witt.
The 2018-19 season
marks Writers Theatre’s
third full season in the company’s
award-winning new
home at 325 Tudor Court in
Glencoe, designed by Studio
Gang Architects. Productions
will be presented
in two spaces in the theater
complex including the 255-
seat Alexandra C. and John
D. Nichols Theatre, as well
as the Gillian Theatre, a 50
to 99-seat flexible theater
space.
From its very first
year, Writers Theatre has
brought quality and excellence
to the stage while
maintaining the company’s
hallmark intimacy. The last
25 years have seen unprecedented
growth in both the
artistic and business arenas
as the company has garnered
national acclaim and
recognition, marked by the
celebrated opening of the
theater’s new facility in
February 2016.
With a longstanding reputation
for consistent artistic
excellence and with
strong ties to the community,
Writers Theatre has
built an award-winning
repertoire and serves as a
vital and highly regarded
company in the Chicagoland
theater community.
“Our 2018-19 season is
fresh and sophisticated,
and rooted in our tradition
of ensuring that the written
word and the artist remain
at the center of our conversation,”
Artistic Director
Michael Halberstam said.
“We have a brilliant
team of directors who have
assembled a remarkable
array of designers and are
in the process of casting
a mix of fresh faces and
longtime WT favorites.
We invite our Chicagoland
audiences to lean forward
and engage in our most exciting
season to date.”
Season packages are
available at the box office,
325 Tudor Court, Glencoe,
(847) 242-6000 and www.
writerstheatre.org.
Anne Loucks Gallery
is pleased to announce the
opening of an exhibition of
30 recent paintings by Nebraska
artist Stephen Dinsmore.
The show will open
Thursday, March 15, and
continue through May 14 at
Anne Loucks Gallery, 309
Park Ave., Glencoe.
Stephen Dinsmore is
well known for his abstract
landscape paintings, as well
as his still life and figurative
compositions that suggest
influences of Matisse,
Bonnard, and Diebenkorn.
His highly expressive paintings
evoke his love of color,
light, nature, and as he
states, “things for which I
have a great fondness.”
With a loose gestural
style, and lively brushwork,
his paintings strike a compelling
balance between realism
and abstraction.
“For me, painting means
being on the lookout for an
image or idea that excites,”
Dinsmore said. “So many
things count: the creamy
light of late afternoon on
landscape; the abstract
beauty of marks on the side
of a train car; an interior
filled with color and reverie;
a fly fisherman in shadow; a
disregarded corner of town.
I try to make a painting that
has in it the all the magic
and mystery of the thing
that excites.”
The exhibition will also
be on view at www.loucksgallery.com
Anne Loucks Gallery
specializes in contemporary
painting, sculpture, photography
and works on paper.
Gallery hours are from 11
a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday
and by appointment.
The paintings of Nebraska artist Stephen Dinsmore will
be exhibited through May 14 at Anne Loucks Gallery in
Glencoe. This piece is titled “Ocean and Wave.” Photos
Submitted
Dinsmore’s painting called “Peony in Window.”