TimeLine Theatre goes In Darfur

TimeLine Theatre Company has filled the open slot in its 2010–11 season with the Chicago premiere of In Darfur, playwright Winter Miller's account of her own experience as an outsider in the Darfur crisis. Miller was working as a researcher for New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof when she accompanied him on a trip to the Chad/Sudan border in 2006; In Darfur premiered at New York's Public Theater Lab series in 2007. It was commissioned by Minneapolis's Guthrie Theater and Playwrights' Center; the latter's Polly Carl, now Steppenwolf's director of artistic development, served as dramaturg on the Public's premiere. TimeLine's production, directed by Nick Bowling, will run January 22–March20, 2011.

The company also announced casting for the first two plays of its season. August's Frost/Nixon will star Terry Hamilton as Richard M. Nixon and Andrew Carter as David Frost, with the cast filled out by David Parkes, Don Bender, Matthew Brumlow, Dennis Grimes, Michael Kingston, Beth Lacke, Ian Maxwell and Jessica Thigpen. October's world premiere of William Brown and Doug Frew's Mastering the Art will feature Karen Janes Woditsch as Julia Child and Torrey Hanson as her husband Paul, with support from Hamilton, Juliet Hart, Jeannie Affelder, Ian Paul Custer, Amy Dunlap, Joel Gross, Ethan Saks and Ann Wakefield. A new production of the Chicago-set classic The Front Page closes the season in April 2011.