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Hey Everyone!
Thank you all for your emails and congratulatory notes as we finished the run to Valentine Victorious. It was so nice to see how many of you have enjoyed the trilogy enough to stick with us up to the end.
I have been asked so many times in the last couple weeks how it [...]

Hello House sports fans…. here’s the quick update on what’s been happening around The House since Nate broke his hand:
On Tuesday and Wednesday we got together and had a few emergency put-in rehearsals for the forged in fire Valentine understudy, the brilliant Mike Spatafora. You know Spat as the lead guitarist for the Trick [...]

Hello Housians,
Just wanted to give you and update on some breaking news (pun intended) from over here at house world headquarters.
In case you didn’t know, During his climactic brawl with the Black Skull last Friday, Nathan – The Invincible Valentine – Allen broke his hand. Like the all-star quarterback that he is, He finished up [...]

There has been a lot of discussion in the local theatre media about the New York Times piece that ran on Chicago theatre.
If you haven’t read it here’s the link again:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/theater/newsandfeatures/05ishe.html?_r=2&oref=slogin
Because The House is a big part of that article our name is starting to come up in discussions about “Political Theatre”. [...]

On Monday, Jake Minton and Nate Allen sat down for a half-hour and discussed “Valentine Victorious”. The chatted about:
How did Angela Reed die in “Valentine Victorious”?
House set design and the Viaduct
Remounting the Valentine Trilogy
Does Black Skull have “Daddy” issues?
Give it a listen and come back to the blog with your thoughts.
Running time: 30:10

Its true. The House is in the New York Times! Charles Isherwood wrote a review of Valentine Victorious as a part of a piece on Chicago theatre. It printed on Sunday, February 5. It looks pretty impressive in the actual paper, but if you missed it you can still find it [...]

Wow!
Its just opening weekend of Valentine Victorious and I’m already getting a lot of mail about the nature of Forgiveness and my definition of Hero. These are especially thrilling conversations for me since these questions propelled the writing to begin with. These are also giant philosophical discussions and I don’t pretend to [...]

We finished uploading the full video for “Curse of the Crying Heart” last night and threw it onto our podcast this morning.Lucas broke the video up into four parts, so be prepared to download four files. For the non-podcasters out there, we also have direct links to downloads at the Internet Archive:

Curse of the Crying [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 12, 2006
Valentine Victorious sponsored by The Boeing Company!
The House Theatre of Chicago is thrilled to announce Boeing as its newest supporter. Boeing has generously sponsored The House’s upcoming production of Valentine Victorious, Part III of The Valentine Trilogy. The innovation utilized by The House in producing the final installment in [...]

Check this out!  This week’s issue of TimeOut Chicago features a back page owner’s manual for The House’s Valentine Trilogy.  It includes a quippy break-down of all three shows so’s you beginners don’t get confused.  And when it comes from Chris Piatt, we know that a quippy break-down is the sincerest form of flattery:
My Bloody [...]