Billy recently visited UIC to speak with students of the University’s Theater Program.  You can read more about the evening on the UIC website by following this link.

Photo Copyright : Roberta Dupuis-Devlin

On March 1st, Victory Gardens held a special evening celebrating the opening of their Richard Christiansen Theater.   Photos from the event can be found on the Victory Gardens Flickr page.  You can view them all by clicking the image below.

Image copyright - Victory Gardens

As per our tweet yesterday (we do recommend you follow us on Twitter because we usually post news there first) the new Richard Christian Theater at Victory Gardens opened.     Billy was at the opening ceremony and gave a speech.

The actor William Petersen followed with an equally moving and self-effacing speech, remarking on how generously Christiansen treated the famous opening-night fiasco of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” when the great Joe Mantegna went up on his lines. Petersen had a similar story to Cleveland’s. Christiansen told him, in print, that he was a great actor. And from that point, he believed it himself.

The full article is available via the Chicago Tribune : Now open for business: The Richard Christiansen Theater

Those of you following ourselves and several other fansites on Twitter would have seen Jorja Fox: Online’s great experience of attending the Spotlight Humane: Chicago event this past Saturday.

The JFO webmistress was  invited to the event by Jorja herself and has kindly shared her story, images and a video with everyone, we highly recommend you check them out.  Billy was also in attendance at the event.

Image copyright Jorja Fox: Online

Billy attended the Sheila Kar Health Foundation Charity Fundraiser last week in Los Angeles and we have a couple of photos from the event in The Gallery.

Also, today Billy celebrates his 57th birthday, Happy Birthday Billy!

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