Tuesday, June 17 2008

directorJohn Musial

Algren's backstreet poetry and gritty tales of Chicago interweave with the pulse of a live, onstage jazz combo in this intimate portrait of one of Chicago's most enduring literary figures. Performed against a background of grainy 16mm films, Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day invites you to meet Algren, the people he chronicled, and shuffle the streets of Chicago in his shoes. Jeff-nominated Ensemble Member Thomas J. Cox reprises his role of Algren, giving us an incomparable window into Algren's rhythmic, comic, sensual vision of his beloved city.

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Tickets

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Tuesdays at 7:30 PM: $30
Wednesdays at 7:30 PM: $40
Thursdays at 7:30 PM: $40
Fridays at 7:30 PM: $50
Saturdays at 3:00 PM: $50
Saturdays at 7:30 PM: $55
Sundays at 3:00 PM: $50
Sundays at 7:30 PM: $25

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Post-show discussions

Don't miss special post-show discussions with Artistic Director of New Work Heidi Stillman, Director John Musial, actor Thomas J. Cox, and Algren scholar Bill Savage after the following Sunday matinees:

Sunday, June 22, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008

Post-show discussions include a question-and-answer session with the artists who created Nelson Algren: For Keeps and A Single Day.

Hearing Impaired Performances

Supertitles will be displayed during the performances of Nelson Algren: For Keeps and A Single Day on June 10 and 17, 2008.

Art Shay: Chicago Accent

Now through June 29, 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, in conjunction with our production of Nelson Algren: For Keeps and A Single Day

Art Shay: Chicago Accent is a collection of photographs by Art Shay of Chicago between 1949 and 1968, hand-picked by the artist and revealing a deep friendship and collaboration with his subject, the author Nelson Algren. Together they captured the culture of the post-war underclass. Also a staff reporter for Life and Time magazines before devoting himself to journalism through the lens of his Leica, Shay never abandoned his proclivity to write, and the captions accompanying the photographs on view are his words alone. Shay still lives in the Chicagoland area and is working on several photographic and literary projects.

This exhibition is presented by the MCA Performance Department in conjunction with Lookingglass Theatre Company's presentation, in association with the MCA, of Nelson Algren: For Keeps and a Single Day (June 4-29).