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Robert Falls

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Book WriterDirector b. 1954

Robert Falls (born March 2, 1954) is an American theater director and the former artistic director of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. Hailed as "Chicago's most essential director" by the Chicago Tribune, Falls' four-decade career spans groundbreaking new plays, reimagined classics, opera, and large-scale musical works. He has been featured in American Theatre magazine as one of the "most powerful" individuals in the American theater.

Also credited on1 work

Aida

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In the literature8 passages

  • Hal sent the play to Robert Falls, the artistic director of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and we were offered a limited run beginning in April 2002.ebooks/Burnett, Carol/This Time Together - Carol Burnett.txt
  • Book: Linda Wolverton, Robert Falls, & David Henry Hwang, “suggested by the opera”ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • STANDING ON MY KNEES by John Olive; Director. Robert Falls; Costumes, Nan Cibula; Set, David Emmons; Lighting, William Mintzer; Associate Artistic Director, Douglas Hughes; Stage Managers, Johnna Murray, Alice Jankowiak; General Manager, Connie L. Alexis; Press, Patricia Cox, Eliza Gaynor, Marina Sherifftheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1982-83 Season, v. 39 (Willis).txt
  • IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST: LETTERS FROM PRISON by Jack Henry Abbott; Director, Robert Falls; Set. Robert Falls/Michael S. Philippi; Lighting. Michael S. Philippi; Sound, Jim Kusyk; Stage Manager, Karl W. Sullivan. CAST: Tim Halligan, Peter Aylward and William L. Petersen as Jack Henry Abbott. (Terrace Theater) Tu July 9. -Aug. 3. 1985. Th…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1985-86 Season, v. 42 (Willis).txt
  • THE GOODMAN THEATRE Chicago, Illinois Producing Director, Roche Schulfer; Artistic Director, Robert Falls; General Manag¬ er, Katherine Murphy; Associate Director, Frank Galati; Resident Director, Michael Maggio; Development, Alida Caster, Molly Landgraf; Press, Cindy Bandle; Market¬ ing, Joanna Lohmiller; Operations, Kendall Marlow; Prod…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1987-88 Season, v. 44 (Willis).txt
  • Chicago, Illinois Artistic Director, Robert Falls; Producing Director, Roche Schulfer; Associate Di-theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1988-89 Season, v. 45 (Willis).txt

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What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer, director — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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