Eileen Boevers, Apple Tree Theatre founder, is dead at 68 :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Obituaries

Eileen Boevers, Apple Tree Theatre founder, is dead at 68 :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Obituaries: "When a big revival of 'Oklahoma' opened on Broadway in 2002, Eileen Boevers strode down the aisle of the Gershwin Theatre beaming with pride at the fact that her daughter, actress Jessica Boevers, was about to play Ado Annie. Her pride was understandable, of course. But those who watched Eileen Boevers stand guard at the opening of scores of shows at her Highland Park-based Apple Tree Theatre -- the theater she founded in 1983, and nurtured ever since -- will tell you that she brought the same maternal glow to every production she oversaw there. For she considered every actor, director, musician and designer who worked at her north suburban stage to be part of her family."