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Andrew White

ANDREW WHITE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Andrew White is an American playwright and director. He is currently Artistic Director of Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago, a company he co-founded in 1988. His writing for the stage includes the play Of One Blood, the adaptation 1984, based on George Orwell's novel, which received a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Adaptation, and the book and lyrics for the musical Eastland.

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         1984         Eastland         Last Act Of Lilka Kadison         Of One Blood
1984

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Based on the novel "1984" by George Orwell

1st Produced:
Water Tower Water Works, Chicago     01 Oct 2004

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Eastland

Synopsis:
On July 24th 1914 the SS Eastland sank in the Chicago River - 848 people drowned. Many of them employees of Western Electric on their annual works outing.

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Music by Andre J Pluess; Ben Sussman; lyrics and book by Andrew White

1st Produced:
New World Stages, New York     17 Oct 2013

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Musical

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Last Act Of Lilka Kadison

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Ilka Kadison is 87. She yearns to be reconciled with her son. She fends of the attentions of the ghost of a former lover. And she has to get used to her new care-giver an Ethiopian man.

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1st Produced:
Water Tower Water Works, Chicago     01 Jun 2011

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Looking Glass Theatre Company

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Genre:
Drama

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Of One Blood

Of One Blood
Three young black men are driving their car in Mississippi. They get stopped by a redneck police officer and murdered. Twenty five years later in Heaven the three are still discussing the day they were killed

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1st Produced:
Lookgglass Theatre, Chicago     1999

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LA Theatre Works   

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Original cast recording of full text: LA Theatre Works 2009

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Drama

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