Raven Theatre’s Cold Town/Hotline, the Chicago holiday play it commissioned from writer and director Eli Newell, features one extraordinary kid actor—fifth-grader Jonah Kaufman—and the mostly happy ending requisite for family-friendly Christmas-season shows.
Ah, yes. The grocery store.
But Menendian told me, “That’s not really true. They wanted to celebrate us [at a gala, etc]. And we did not want to be celebrated, given the acrimonious terms under which we left. But it had nothing to do with saying ‘please eliminate our names from the history of Raven.’ Obviously I wouldn’t spend 35 years of my life building it up from scratch, just to be completely forgotten. I did not expect that they would wipe the slate clean. That never was presented to me.”
Through 12/22: Wed-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark, 773-338-2177, raventheatre.com, $30, $20 18 and under, active military, and veterans.
