NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE

For the first time ever, TIC is partnering with the National Theatre in London in a groundbreaking initiative to bring the “best of British theatre” to Evanston.  Throughout the 2011/12 season, NT Live is broadcasting its highly-praised productions to TIC, offering Chicago and North Shore audiences some of the world’s greatest theatre performances.  Three broadcasts remaining; don’t miss out!
Single tickets for each showing are $20 – or buy all three for only $48! 
Already an NT Live Series subscriber?  Add Travelling Light and The Comedy of Errors for only $16 each! Call 847-491-7282 for details.

Read Jonathan Mandell’s American Theatre magazine article [pdf] about National Theatre Live!

Travelling Light
Tuesday, February 28, 7 p.m., Josephine Louis Theater | Buy Tickets
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving pictures of their village, he stumbles on a revolutionary way of story-telling. Forty years on, Motl – now a famed American film director – looks back on his early life and confronts the cost of fulfilling his dreams. A new play by Nicholas Wright, Travelling Light is a funny and fascinating tribute to the Eastern European immigrants who became major players in Hollywood’s golden age. Directed by National Theatre Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner and featuring Antony Sher (Primo, Stanley).

The Comedy of Errors | Buy Tickets
Tuesday, March 27, 7 p.m.
Dominic Cooke, Director of the celebrated Royal Court Theatre in London, comes to NT for the first time to direct Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, opening in the Olivier Theatre in late November and continuing in repertoire until March 2012. Famed U.K. comedian and actor Lenny Henry makes his NT debut as Antipholus of Syracuse.

She Stoops to Conquer
Tuesday, April 24, 7 p.m., Josephine Louis Theater | Buy Tickets
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal’s son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he’s mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he’s a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle’s indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle’s appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family. Directed by Jamie Lloyd.