Timeline Theater Company of the Year
Wall Street Journal Selects Chicago Theatre
By: Susan Hall - Jan 08, 2011
Here's the Wall Street Journal's pick as "Company of the Year."
"Chicago's TimeLine Theatre, which specializes in "stories inspired by history," outdid itself with better-than-the-original productions of Aaron Sorkin's The Farnsworth Invention and Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon performed in its own 87-seat theater, showing that a small troupe with creativity and nerve to burn can make as much magic as a big-ticket Broadway extravaganza.
Don't be put off by Chicago's winter weather reputation. While the East was locked in by a blizzard, you could easily walk up Michicago Avenue, past the Renzo Piano extension to the Art Institute, the Frank Geary bandshell, toward the arresting and elegant skyscrapers which outline the north end of Millenium Park. Chicago theater awaits and there are heat stands on the "El."