Signed Copy of Maggie Andersen's No Stars in Jefferson Park and Two Tickets to The Gift Theatre

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Maggie Andersen's just-released memoir, No Stars in Jefferson Park, tells the story about starting The Gift Theatre in Chicago in the early 2000s. It is also about the spinal stroke suffered by The Gift's founding artistic director, and Maggie's former significant other, Michael Patrick Thornton. Maggie must face this crisis and find the courage to pursue her own artistic passions, including writing the memoir. One of the books of the year for Chicago literature with a rave review from Kerry Reid in the Chicago Reader and starred review in Booklist! Get a signed copy of the book and two tickets to a Spring 2026 production at The Gift Theatre! 

The Gift Theatre, located at 4041 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, is one of our city's most inclusive, excellent companies. For the past quarter century, Gift has been putting on fabulous plays in its Jefferson Park space. Win this auction and you will get two tickets to a Spring 2026 production--they're all great, so you'll be happy when the schedule comes out. Here is The Gift's mission: "Our mission is to share impossible-feeling stories with naked honesty, emotion, true ensemble artistry, and radical inclusivity. We believe a play never closes until everyone who saw it stops thinking about it, and that theatre is, at its best, a sacred conversation between actor and audience, revealing the joy and pain of being human. In other words, a gift."