William Petersen Set for Summer Play

William Petersen will one busy man over the next couple of years. In addition to his winter run at Steppenwolf, he’ll also star in “as-yet-undetermined project directed by Dennis Zacek, his longtime mentor and Victory Gardens’ artistic director” during the Summer of 2009. Victory Gardens is a “ seminal institution within the Chicago Theater Movement of the 1970s and 1980s, dedicated by mission to serving playwrights and producing world premiere plays.” The theater recently celebrated it’s 30th season. Zacek has been the artistic director for over 20 years, producing more than 150 shows including Jim Sherman’s The God of Isaac and Lonnie Carter’s Lemuel.
The William Petersen project will run July 3-Aug. 9, 2009. For tickets call Tickets: (773) 871-3000. So much Billy so little time.
Bit ‘o Trivia: Victory gardens were private gardens planted during WWI and WWWII in order to ease public food consumption during war.

August 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
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