Emilie and Bernard Beck Podcast

On this episode of the Talk Theatre In Chicago podcast we talk with playwright and director Emilie Beck and her father Bernard Beck who is appearing in her one-man show Number Of People playing at the Piven Theatre in Evanston.


Listen here: http://www.theatreinchicago.com/talk/interior.php?podshowID=259

Piven and Walker Elementary

Throughout our residency at Walker Elementary, students
studied how theatre games and improvisation can help create
descriptive characters. These character sketches can then be used to
assist in their creative writing and language use skills.

Performance Project 2010

Congrats!! Great show! Success!!

Another oldie, but goodie

Interview from 8/17/08 with Joyce Piven, Jen Green, and Susan Payne. They discuss the Piven philosophy of acting training, child actors, their own personal connections to the Workshop, and the crucial importance of play in a mediatized culture. The link takes you to Talk Theatre in Chicago podcasts. It is number 82!

Listen:
TALK Theatre in Chicago Podcast.

Number of People

Follow the link below to an audio podcast discussion on Piven Theatre's production of "Number of People" between David Bier and David Chack. This is our first attempt at a podcast so we apologize for the sound quality. Also there is a small break in the audio around middle where they start talking about Oskar Shindler. Sorry, for the troubles, but hope to get sound remedied for the next one.

David Bier, MSW, is Consultant/Clinician for the Holocaust Community Services program at Jewish Child and Family Services, Skokie, Illinois. He has worked with and on behalf of survivors of the Holocaust for over 9 years.
Holocaust Community Services provides support to survivors to continue to live independently in their homes, and offers consultation and training.
He can be reached at davidbier@jcfs.org

David Y. Chack is President of the Association for Jewish Theatre. He is currently on faculty at the Board of Jewish Education Metropolitan Chicago and the Dawn Schuman Institute of the Community Foundation Metro Chicago. He produces, writes, directs, and teaches theatre and curates exhibitions. He is a recent 2010 Fellow of the Council of American Jewish Museums and has received multiple awards including the Elie Wiesel Award for Jewish Arts and Culture; the James Macdonald Award for Interfaith Understanding and Social Justice, and a semi-finalist award for the Charles R. Bronfman Innovative Jewish Communities Visiting Professorship at Brandeis University. Many of his articles are found on jewish-theatre.com

Listen:
Number of People Podcast

Spring Classes Begin!

Our spring session is on its way, and we've got a talented new group of youth students.
Take a look!

Old School Piven Theatre Workshop

What do you get when you give high school students a camera?

An experiment in letting the members of our Young People's Company go crazy with a camera and a question: "What does Piven Theatre Workshop mean to you?"



Hilarious and sincere (and I swear we never asked them to be so nice about us!)


And, better yet, they are performing THIS WEEKEND! Shows are Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30, with a Saturday matinee at 2:30. Call the box office at (847) 866-8049 to reserve tickets, or visit the website at www.piventheatre.org.

Transformation

I love this picture. It was taken in an adult acting class here at the Workshop.
To me it says so much. I see sharing, I see excepting, I see hands...

Our hands say a lot about us and how we interact with the world. Our hands are (usually) our first contact with humanity. They feel, they connect, they guard against the unfamiliar, and protect us from danger. They even speak their own language.

The hands in this picture are fearless, joyful, and playful. You can see the connection and energy that is between them. This is what we strive for as actors--to be fearless, joyful, and playful. That kind of connection cannot be fabricated and the feeling is never forgotten. That is what you learn at the Piven Theatre Workshop.

Joyce Piven and the Chicago Trib

The Chicago Tribune visits with Chicago theater legend Joyce Piven. The mother of actors Jeremy and Shira Piven directed a new play in 2007, based on the works of great Jewish writers. It's called "What Dreams May Come."

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