First Floor Theater BOTTICELLI IN THE FIRE — PICTURE PREVIEW

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WHEN:

Through November 5, 2022

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm
Sundays at 3 pm.

WHERE:

The Den’s Janet Bookspan Theatre
1331 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago

TICKETS:

$25+

For more information and tickets visit the First Floor Theater website.

CAST:

Neala Barron (Clarice Orsini)
Yuchi Chiu (Poggio di Chullu)
Andrew Cutler (Lorenzo De Medici)
Christopher Meister (Girolamo Savonarola)
John Payne (Leonardo Da Vinci)
Alex Benito Rodriguez (Sandro Botticelli)
Jenece Upton (Madre Maria)

CREATIVE TEAM:

Playwright: Jordan Tannahill
Director: Bo Frazier
Lauren Nichols (Scenic Designer)
Benjamin Carne (Lighting Designer)
Willow James (Sound Designer)
Caitlin McCarthy (Props Designer)
Micah Figueroa (Intimacy and Fight Choreographer)
Andres Fonesca (Musical Director)
Adelina Feldman-Schultz (Casting Director)
Anastar Alvarez (Production Manager)
Oswald Avile (Stage Manager)

A spokesperson describes the event as follows:

"...Playboy Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear – and the wife – of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as the Renaissance’s hottest young apprentice, Leonardo Da Vinci. But while at work on his breakthrough commission, ‘The Birth of Venus’, Botticelli’s devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As the plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite..."

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Photos: Evan Hanover

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