Join us for a live, onstage marriage counseling session with special guest Art Nielsen, M.D.! The Realistic Joneses couple Bob and Jennifer Jones (played by H.B. Ward and Linda Reiter) will work through the marital problems they face throughout the play.  Don’t miss a unique opportunity to see these characters in a whole new way, guided by a real-life relationship expert!

Art Nielsen is a full-time, practicing psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and couple therapist.

He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, a faculty member at Northwestern’s Family Institute in Evanston, and a faculty member of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.

For many years and until recently, he was the coordinator of a popular, for credit course he developed for Northwestern undergraduates, “Marriage 101: Building Loving and Lasting Relationships.”

He has taught workshops and lectured widely and internationally on couple therapy, is the author of forty-some published professional papers in the fields of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and couple therapy, and has published a comprehensive textbook relevant to this event titled, A Roadmap for Couple Therapy: Integrating Systemic, Psychodynamic, and Behavioral Approaches.

Purchase tickets for the February 24 performance of THE REALISTIC JONESES, or make plans to join us after the performance!

Join us for a post-performance discussion with Irina Ruvinksy and director Lou Contey. Irina Ruvinsky is a professor of philosophy and literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and she teaches Russian literature in the Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures at UIC. She received her Phd From the University of Chicago and was a Chateaubriand Fellow at Sorbonne IV in Paris.

Purchase tickets for the September 30 performance of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, or make plans to join us after the performance around 5:15 pm.