Producing
Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside
and American Blues
Theater, Chicago’s second oldest Equity ensemble, present RIPPED: The Living Newspaper Festival, Monday, May 5 at 7 p.m. at the Greenhouse
Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave. Tickets are $10 at the door and include food
and drinks. For more information or to order tickets go to
americanbluestheater.com or call 312.725.4228.
American
Blues Theater’s RIPPED: The Living Newspaper Festival is a fund-raising event
for American Blues and began in 2009. Since that first edition, they have
presented12 events using more than 320 artists. American Blues Theater’s RIPPED
is based on the 1930s Works Progress
Administration (WPA) program, The Federal Theatre Project’s the Living
Newspaper, which brought Orson Welles,
Arthur Miller and Clifford Odets
into public attention. The Federal Theatre
Project wrote and presented a number of Living Newspapers on social issues of
the day during the 1930s. At RIPPED, new works
are ripped from today’s headlines and presented in staged readings by Chicago’s
leading playwrights and directors.
