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CHICAGO – Society, or at least certain elements of society, are always looking for scapegoats to hide the sins of themselves and authority. In the so-called “great America” of the 1950s, the scapegoat target was comic books … specifically through a sociological study called “The Seduction of the Innocent.” City Lit Theater Company, in part two of a trilogy on comic culture by Mark Pracht, presents “The Innocence of Seduction … now through October 8th, 2023. For details and tickets, click COMIC BOOK.
Podtalk: New Artistic Director Sarah Slight of Chicago’s Raven Theatre on the 41st Season
Submitted by PatrickMcD on September 9, 2023 - 12:28pm
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Artistic Director Sarah Slight (inset) of Raven Theatre
Photo credit: RavenTheatre.com
Raven Theatre is located in the Edgewater Neighborhood, 6157 North Clark Street in Chicago. For all information and tickets, click RavenTheatre.com.
© 2023 Patrick McDonald, HollywoodChicago.com
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CHICAGO – On July 1st, 2023, Sarah Slight was named Artistic Director of the Raven Theatre, beginning with the 41st Season, which begins October 5th with Lucille Fletcher’s from-Broadway thriller “Night Watch.” In 2024, the season will continue with two original commissioned stage plays, Paul Michael Thomson’s ‘brother sister cyborg space’ in February and the final installment of the Grand Boulevard Trilogy, “The Prodigal Daughter,” by Joshua Allen. For all information and tickets, click RAVEN.
Raven Theatre Artistic Director Sarah Slight is a Chicago-based dramaturg, literary manager, and producer. Sarah has dramaturged new play development workshops at Victory Gardens Ignition Festival, New Harmony Project, Phoenix Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, and American Theater Company. She is an ensemble member at Rivendell Theatre and a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Sarah earned an MFA in Dramaturgy and Script Development at Columbia University and a BS in Theatre Studies with associated studies in art and history at University of Evansville.
Artistic Director Sarah Slight (inset) of Raven Theatre
Photo credit: RavenTheatre.com
Raven Theatre tells stories of today and the past that connect us to our cultural landscape. Through its plays, as well as its educational programming, Raven is committed to serving the community needs through the arts. The current stage play in the space is “The Beauty Queen of Leenane” presented by Three Crows Theatre (click link).
In a Podtalk with Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, Artistic Director Sarah Slight reflects on her new gig …
 | By PATRICK McDONALD |
