{"id":31374,"date":"2013-07-25T16:37:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=31374"},"modified":"2026-02-21T17:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:26:52","slug":"fondakowski","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31374","title":{"rendered":"<em>The People&rsquo;s Temple<\/em> Completes Chicago Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/images\/jtr10\/08d-01-fonda2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/08d-01-fonda2.jpg\" width=\"169\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leigh Fondakowski\u2019s play, <i>The People\u2019s Temple<\/i>, ran through the month of September 2008 in Chicago. Staged by the American Theatre Company, a small, ensemble theater company, the play ran for the first time under Fondakowski\u2019s direction without her original ensemble cast. Articles in this year\u2019s <i>jonestown report<\/i> include those by ATC actors <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31332\">Cheryl Graeff<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31330\">Tim Decker<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=31439\">Editha Rosario<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reviews of the play include those in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/entlife\/20080911\/the-peoples-temple-explores-jonestown-tragedy\">The Chicago Herald<\/a> of September 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081013035413\/https:\/\/www.chicagopride.com\/entertainment\/column\/index.cfm\/col\/546\">The Chicago Pride<\/a> on September 17, and an art-and-culture website, <a href=\"http:\/\/gapersblock.com\/ac\/2008\/09\/22\/peoples-temple-at-american-the\/\">Gapers Block<\/a>, on September 23.<\/p>\n<p>A preview of the play in the August 15 issue of <i>Broadway World<\/i> appears <a href=\"http:\/\/broadwayworld.com\/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=31200\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leigh Fondakowski\u2019s play, The People\u2019s Temple, ran through the month of September 2008 in Chicago. Staged by the American Theatre Company, a small, ensemble theater company, the play ran for the first time under Fondakowski\u2019s direction without her original ensemble cast. Articles in this year\u2019s jonestown report include those by ATC actors Cheryl Graeff, Tim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":31469,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31374","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31374"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133966,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31374\/revisions\/133966"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}