The Viaduct Theater (Chicago, IL)
It's San Francisco, 1939. Surrounded by a world on the brink of war and ravaged by depression, Nick's Pacific Street Saloon attracts an assortment of "important nobodies" who share the common bond of searching for purpose. Their dreary routines of survival are sparked by brilliant flashes of hope and beauty as the events of a single day change their lives forever.
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Reminds me a little of Cheers (TV show). THis is the kind of bar you would love to find where everybody comes by. How often do you find a play with live music on stage? The piano player is very good and the funny dancing comedian is going somewhere in this business. Like an early Jim Carrey. Only thing better would have been if we could walked up on stage and ordered from the bar.
Great play, splendid actors!
The Viaduct Theater, a non-profit arts producer since 1998, exists to build and promote theatre, film, and music in Chicago through a diversity of activities including producing plays and musical events; selecting and showing locally made films; and furnishing and maintaining an equipped production facility for theatre practitioners, filmmakers, and musicians that is also a venue for public the
"In the time of your life, live..." --William Saroyan
It's San Francisco, 1939. Surrounded by a world on the brink of war and ravaged by depression, Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon attracts an assortment of "important nobodies" who share the common bond of searching for purpose. Their dreary routines of survival are sparked by brilliant flashes of hope and beauty as the events of a single day change all of their lives forever. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this poetic tribute to optimism and dreams encourages the characters, and the audience, to spend the time of their lives truly living.
By William Saroyan
Directed by Joe Slowik
Provision Theater Company is devoted to works of hope, reconciliation and redemption; works that challenge us to explore a life of meaning and purpose. The Equity-affiliated Provision Theater Company was founded in September 2003 by Chicago-based actor/director Timothy Gregory, who also serves as Artistic Director. The company burst onto the Chicago theater scene in March 2004 with the opening of Harry Chapin's off-Broadway smash hit Cotton Patch Gospel, which played to packed houses and unanimous critical praise from numerous publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader and more. The production was also nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award and received an After Dark Award for best actor. Their next production, A Christmas Carol, garnered two more Joseph Jefferson Nominations--one for Best New Adaptation and one for Best Actor.