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stage for songwriters-Hammond theater welcomes young, gifted singer/composers.
By Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, June 5, 2009, post-trib.com
For an 18-year-old singer/songwriter, Lindsay Jurek has taken a
big stride or two. In a Nashville mode, she's opened for Chris Cagle
and the Wreckers, the latter of whom feature Michelle Branch and Jessica
Harp.
Jurek served
as a warm-up for both of those country acts at Ohio State University.
Arts
chief John Cain stars as rascally writer in one-man Capote show
By Molly Woulfe, The Times, April 24, 2009
He was a tiny terror, giant talent and jet-set pet in the '60s and '70s.But
Truman Capote, one of post-war America's leading writers, bit the bejeweled
hand that fed him. Slapped away, he never recovered. The short, high-pitched
charmer and talk-show darling died in 1984. He was 59.
John Cain,
portraying the mercurial scribe in the one-man play "Tru"
at the Towle Theater, regards his pill-popping, alter ego as a flawed
genius.
Cain
stars in 'Tru,' a salute to Truman Capote
By Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, April 23, 2009, post-trib.com
If you're going to play Truman Capote, it helps to look like him.John
Cain has been told that he does. He's also well aware that he sounds
like the late, great colorful writer. Capote's laugh is even reflected
a bit in Cain, executive director of South Shore Arts and the Northwest
Indiana Symphony Orchestra.
Celebrate
group's 10th anniversary with a concert at Towle Community Theater
By Rob Earnshaw, The Times, March 21, 2009
A 25-minute piece about a romance that blossomed at a Whiting soda
fountain during the 1950s will highlight Generation Dance Theatre's
10th Anniversary Concert at Towle Community Theater in Hammond. "It's
about my mother who was a soda jerk in the '50s in Whiting," said
Kathleen Dominiak, Generations Dance Theatre Director.
Local
productions leave audiences laughing
By Carol Moore, The Times, March 6, 2009, nwi.com
Hammond's Towle Theatre opens its 2009 season with a different but
humorous show, "Gutenberg! The Musical!" Doug Simon (Tom Farley)
and Bud Davenport (Bill Danko) are performing the first reading of their
new musical, hoping one of the Broadway producers in the audience will
give them a contract.
'Gutenberg!
The Musical!' a clever, crazy spoof of a backers' audition
By Rob Earnshaw, The Times, February 20, 2009, nwi.com
Did you ever think the story of the man who invented the printing
press in 1450 would lend itself to a big, splashy Broadway musical in
2009?
Bud Davenport
and Doug Simon certainly did.
Towle
announces first director of education
By Bob Craig, Post-Tribune, February 6, 2009, post-trib.com
Shelley Crosby, former artistic director for American Girl Theatre
in Chicago, has joined the staff at the Towle Theatre in Hammond as
its first director of education.
Crosby is in charge of increasing educational programs and creating
new opportunities...
Towle
Theater expands popular Christmas program
By Joan Dittmann, Post-Tribune, November 27, 2009, post-trib.com
Happy Thanksgiving! The holidays are a time of gatherings, traditions
and reminiscing, and that's also what this season is about at the Towle
Community Theater.
Over the last five years, its nostalgic "A Fabulous '50s Christmas"
has played to many sold-out audiences and, with so many repeat patrons,
the show has become a tradition for some.
'Red
Dirt,' 'Amadeus' two different but compelling must-sees
By Carol Moore, The Times, Sept. 19, 2008, nwi.com
The Towle Community Theater in Hammond closes its fifth season with
the world premiere of "Red Dirt." An adaptation of Tag Purvis'
independent movie of the same name, "Red Dirt" is reminiscent
of Tennessee Williams' plays with its dysfunctional family story and
southern setting.
Summer (Leslie A. Evans), who seems to be suffering from melancholia
and/or agoraphobia, spends most of her time...
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