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Thank you to everyone who made the 20th Chicago Stories a huge success!
The evening included cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, live and silent auctions filled with merchandise donated by many of Chicago's finest retailers and a full-course gourmet dinner in the elegant International Ballroom.
The evening’s centerpiece was the live performances of the three plays by this year’s celebrity playwrights – society scribe Candace Jordan, Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) radio host Peter Sagal, and Second City co-founder Bernie Sahlins.
Artistic Director Dennis Zacek cast each 10-minute play with professional actors from Victory Gardens stages, then directed each theatrical vignette. They were reviewed on site by celebrated former Chicago Tribune theater critic Richard Christiansen.
Proceeds from Victory Gardens Chicago Stories benefit helps underwrite the cost of producing world premiere plays, providing education programs for Chicago Public Schools, offering assistive devices and services to persons with disabilities, and making theater available to underserved audiences.
Co-Chairs of the 20th Annual Chicago Stories benefit were Victory Gardens board members Sylvia Margolies, Anne Marie Peretz and Richard Skolly.
2010 Chicago Stories Sponsors
Exelon
Bank of America
ITW
The Boeing Company
Grant Thornton, LLP
Motorola
Barnes and Thornburg, LLP
2010 Chicago Stories Celebrity Playwrights
Candace Collins Jordan
Peter Sagal
Bernard Sahlins
