SHOWS

Directors on Directing: Exploring “Cabaret” with Jim Corti and Matt Hawkins

Presented by DirectorsLabChicago

Monday, April 19
7:00 PM — 8:30 PM
Claudia Cassidy Theater
FREE

Join DirectorsLabChicago as they welcome local directors Jim Corti and Matt Hawkins for a special installment of “Directors On Directing.” This moderated discussion pairs Mr. Corti and Mr. Hawkins in a dialogue about their productions of Cabaret, both produced this season by Drury Lane and The Hypocrites respectively. Each director discusses how they led the same script material with different performance venues, cast, and audience demographics in mind.

Read a Chicago Tribune review of Corti’s Cabaret.

This event is presented in conjunction with The Hypocrites’ Cabaret playing April 15 to May 23 at the Storefront Theater and the sixth annual DirectorsLabChicago taking place June 14-20 at the
Chicago Cultural Center.

DirectorsLabChicago was founded in 2005 by Chicago-based directors Elizabeth Margolius and Karin Shook as a result of their experience with the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab in New York City. Both felt that Chicago would be an ideal and unique setting for directors from all over the world to collaborate, experiment, and exchange practical information. Their initial announcement to the local theatrical community garnered replies from over one hundred emerging and established directors with a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. Such profound enthusiasm confirmed their suspicions that directors would benefit from a place to meet, work, share ideas, and socialize; and so, in July 2005, immediately upon their return from New York, the planning began.

Click here to download the DirectorsLabChicago 2010 application.