The Jeff Awards committee has published the 2011 nominees for Chicago's non-union theatre awards. Local venues Theo Ubique and Lifeline Theatre have again taken a lion's share of the nominations. From jeffawards.org: "The Glenwood
Avenue Arts District in Chicago’s far north Rogers Park neighborhood
continued its recent streak of garnering a large percentage of
nominations. Among producing organizations, Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre
in Association with Michael James received 12 and Lifeline Theatre
received 9. Top-nominated productions for Theo Ubique included “Cats,”
with 8, staged on a platform in a storefront and 2 each for their 2
long-running revues, “Some Enchanted Evening: The Songs of Rodgers and
Hammerstein” and “Sweet and Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen.” Lifeline’s
new adaptation of “Neverwhere,” based on the acclaimed BBC TV series
“London Below,” earned 7 nominations." |
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