The Seat­tle Weekly ran a great inter­view with my pal Sonya Schnei­der about The Thin Place, the new play she’s writ­ing for the Inti­man The­ater here in Seat­tle. The play will open in May and will star Gbenga Akin­nagbe, who played Chris Part­low on The Wire. Sonya is supremely tal­ented, and we’re all thrilled to see her get the break she deserves.

Here’s how the Weekly describes the play:

Every era has to rein­vent the project of “spir­i­tu­al­ity” for itself. If you abol­ish the sym­bols, then you tear down the walls of your own house. There is, then, a ques­tion as to whether your god is really God.

CHICAGO REVIEW

presents

A BILIN­GUAL READING

with

CHRIS­T­IAN HAWKEY

ULJANA WOLF

& MONIKA RINCK

to celebrate

ISSUE 55:1: SEVEN POETS FROM BERLIN

on

THURS­DAY, JAN­U­ARY 28th @ 6PM

at the

GOETHE-​INSTITUT CHICAGO

(150 N. MICHI­GAN AVE)

as well as an

ENCORE READING

on

SAT­UR­DAY, JAN­U­ARY 30th @ 7PM

at

MYOPIC BOOKS

(1564 N. Mil­wau­kee Ave.)

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