WRITERS’ THEATRE NEEDS YOUR VOTES TO WIN!

Broadway World Chicago launched a new Theatre Fans’ Choice Awards and Writers’ Theatre has earned seven nominations.  We need your votes to win!  Voting is open to the public through December 20, so be sure to cast your vote and support Writers’ Theatre and our fabulous nominees.

To cast your vote, click here!

Writers’ Theatre nominations of Broadway World Chicago Theatre Fans’ Choice Awards:

• Best Revival of a Play (Resident Equity) – A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
• Best Revue (Resident Equity) – OH COWARD!
• Best Actress in a Musical or Revue (Resident Equity) – Kate Fry, OH COWARD!
• Best Actor a Musical or Revue (Resident Equity) – Rob Lindley, OH COWARD!
• Best Actress in a Play (Resident Equity) – Natasha Lowe, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
• Best Actor in a Play (Resident Equity) – Allen Gilmore, ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
• Best Scenic Design (Resident Equity) – Colette Pollard, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

The winners will be announced on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at a celebration hosted by Broadway World Chicago at The Call (1547 West Bryn Mawr Avenue) from 9:00 pm-2:00 am.  For more information about the event, click here.

Congratulations to all of the nominees and thank you for supporting Writers’ Theatre!

Writers’ Theatre’s first musical revue, Oh Coward!, will feature the extraordinary talents of three of our favorite performers, including two from our current production of A Minister’s Wife.

Kate Fry is currently delighting Glencoe audiences with her starring turn as Candida in A Minister’s Wife. Kate has extensive credits with both Court Theatre and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, in addition to working at The Mark Taper Forum, McCarter Theatre Center, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Apple Tree Theatre, and Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. She is also the mother of two children with her husband, Tim Kane, who will be playing Guildenstern in our production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead next season.

Also featured in A Minister’s Wife is John Sanders, who plays the curate Lexy Mill. John also appeared on the Writers’ Theatre stage in Evan Smith’s The Uneasy Chair. He has worked all over Chicago in a myriad of different roles, performing at theatres such as Drury Lane Oakbrook, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, American Theater Company, and Stage Left Theatre. However, his greatest triumph recently was getting married to his lovely wife, Jocelyn, and his brother-in-law was just in space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor.

Rob Lindley was last seen at Writers’ Theatre in Bach at Leipzig, playing the German pianist and composer Georg Lenck. You may also have seen him in productions at Court Theatre, Porchlight Music Theatre, Marriott Lincolnshire, and Light Opera Works. He is a graduate of The Second City Training Center Conservatory and now teaches Musical Improv for them. Rob’s partner, Doug Peck, is the musical director of Oh Coward!, and they last worked together on the musical Caroline, or Change at Court Theatre.

Oh Coward! is a musical revue with words and music by Noel Coward, and devised by Roderick Cook. The production will be directed by Jim Corti, with musical direction by Doug Peck. Performances begin November 17, 2009 at 664 Vernon Avenue in Glencoe.