http://www.michaelkraskin.com Upcoming and current work by Michael Kraskin en-us http://www.michaelkraskin.com/newsframe.php?var=general Catalogue of Ships to be on Chicago Public Radio!!!!! Michael Kraskin 2005-12-10 http://www.michaelkraskin.com/newsframe.php?var=catalogue The Catalogue of Ships has launched. www.catalogueofships.com Michael Kraskin 2005-12-19 http://www.michaelkraskin.com/newsframe.php?var=footfalls Samuel Beckett's play, directed by Julieanne Ehre. Michael Kraskin 2005-12-10 http://www.michaelkraskin.com/newsframe.php?var=seasons 11/1/05 A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt, directed by Ed Sobel at Timeline Theatre Company. First staged in 1960, Robert Bolt's masterpiece is a ferocious battle between church and state, faith and politics, and one man's struggle to maintain his principles when he is pressured to abandon them. When England's Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, is asked by Henry VIII to annul his marriage so he can re-marry, More is torn between serving his King or staying true to his beliefs. His defiance of Henry ignites a political firestorm and forces More to pay the price of his disloyalty. Runs Through 12/18/05. Michael Kraskin 2005-11-07 http://www.michaelkraskin.com/newsframe.php?var=bovary 1/27/06 Madame Bovary, adapted from the Gustave Flaubert novel by Paul Edwards. At Northwestern University. Runs Through 2/5/05. Michael Kraskin 2005-06-08 http://www.michaelkraskin.com/newsframe.php?var=jesse I am designing an maintaining the website of the comic book "The Book of Jesse." Right now you can download the first SEVEN issues of the comic for free at the website www.bookofjesse.com. There is now a store where you can buy all sorts of merchandise including a beautiful bound edition of the entire run so far. I've also made a pretty spiffy "top secret" section where you can read more about the history of the characters. Please feel free to contact me with any suggestions for the site.. Michael Kraskin 2005-05-20 http://www.michaelkraskin.com/newsframe.php?var=faculty 6/5/06 The Faculty Room by Bridget Carpenter. Directed by Woolly Mammoth artistic director Howard Schalwitz at the Woolly Mammoth theatre. A small town. A rundown faculty lounge. Inappropriate love. Spiritual fanaticism. In this funny and caustic look at how truly f*@ked up the relationships between teachers and students can get, a public high school erupts with gunshots, desperate longing and misguided acts of courage. Our education system may never recover. Runs through 7/09/06. Michael Kraskin 2005-09-16 http://www.michaelkraskin.com/newsframe.php?var=heritage 4/26/06 Heritage by Brett Neveu. Directed by Ed Sobel, at the American Theatre Company. From the team that brought you the celebrated American Dead comes this powerful drama of race and class relations. A combustible group of African-American and white prisoners are assigned to refurbish a slave plantation house as part of a work detail. The tension builds as each day's work is discovered destroyed the next morning. Runs thru 5/28/06. Michael Kraskin 2005-05-20 http://www.michaelkraskin.com/newsframe.php?var=rohd 5/19/06 A yet unnamed performance conceived and directed by Michael Rohd of Portland's Sojourn Theatre. Michael Kraskin 2005-06-08