Citing “additional time for artistic development prior to the show’s scheduled Chicago opening in September,” Goodman Theatre’s artistic director Robert Falls today announced that the Aida Karic-directed “Joan D’Arc,” its planned world-premiere adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s “Die Jungfrau Von Orléans (The Maid of Orléans),” would be replaced on the fall schedule by the Chicago premiere of Dael Orlandersmith’s solo performance, “Stoop Stories,” which will run September 11-October 11 in the Owen Bruner Theatre. A spoken-word artist best known for her play “Yellowman,” a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, Orlandersmith also received an OBIE Award for “Beauty’s Daughter.”
2 Responses to “Goodman sacrifices Joan D’Arc”
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:39 am
[...] received the following response to Goodman’s cancellation of Joan D’Arc this morning from the artistic director for the performing arts at 2009 Linz European Capital of [...]
July 5th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
[...] FOUR WORLD PREMIERES, A BROADWAY-BOUND DOUBLE-BILL, PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN’S GOODMAN DIRECTORIAL DEBUT AND INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS HIGHLIGHT GOODMAN THEATRE’S 2009/2010 SEASON Note: On June 26, Goodman announced that Joan D’Arc had been dropped from the new season and replaced by the solo performance show, Stoop Stories. Click here for more information. [...]