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Currently in Rehearsal
The Music Man Book, Music and Lyrics by Meredith Wilson Based on a story by Meridith Wilson and Franklin Lacey Directed by Ken Preuss Musical Direction by Kedrick Parham Choreography by Shawn Quinlan Production Dates: July 25 – August 4 Thursday, Friday & Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 2:00 pm at the Des Plaines Park District – Prairie Lakes Theater – 515 E. Thacker St. * Des Plaines * 847.391.5711 |
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Tour Dates Announced
“Side Effects May Include” - the very funny, moving one-man show from former Seinfeld writer Marc Jaffe and Broadway's playwright Eric Coble. - and for the benefit of “Shaking with Laughter” in support of the Michael J. Fox Foundation 
"Side Effects May Include" is a story of sex, drugs and sex-inducing drugs. Phil is living a relatively happily married life - his only complaint? Wife Maggie’s waning sex drive. It provides fodder for his stand-up act until she is diagnosed with Parkinson’s and then life gets better. At least their sex life. Based on a funny, touching, true story, this one-man show explores how sometimes it’s not the disease that changes you, but the side effects...
"Side Effects May Include" is a hysterical roller-coaster ride through an escalating mountain of pills, fidelity, secrets, questions of manhood and womanhood, age, desire, more pills, on-stage and bedroom performance anxiety, still yet more pills, and ultimately, an exploration of whether our deepest personalities and desires are anything more than chemical reactions within our brains. |
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We are now a resident at the Greenhouse Theater Center – upstairs studio |
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - THE PLAY WITHIN
is a workshop presentation for a new musical entitled “The Play Within”. It is written for and about physically disabled adolescents who are trying to make it in the regular school system and the challenges that they face. (more information to come). This is a complementary workshop. All are invited. The cost - stay with us for a Q & A after the workshop and let us know your thoughts! |
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January 2014
– MR. SHAW GOES TO HOLLYWOOD – written by Mark Saltzman directed by John Nasca at the Greenhouse Theater Center There's something fascinating about the glitz and glamour of 1930s Hollywood —the era when big film studios ruled the roost and star-studded movie extravaganzas were cranked out in mass quantities. It was a time of great success and productivity for the motion picture capital; it was also a time often characterized by scandal, greed, and the sacrifice of art for the sake of monetary gain. In short, Hollywood in its heyday was a typical moneymaking machine that was ripe for social satire—borne out in this fictionalized account of Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw's real-life visit to Tinseltown. Backstage By Kristina Mannion Posted April 8, 2003 |
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February 2014 - CORPUS DELICTI -
written by David Alex directed by Wayne Mell Poetic justice is sometimes the most just. Albert Durante, a proud African American, has read most of the books he restores in a workshop. He lives a bitter and lonely existence brightened only by working alongside his perky teenage niece and an insightful homeless man he met in the park. When tragedy strikes, The Divine Comedy provides Durante an idea for exacting poetic justice. He takes us on a journey as he sees society and himself in a new light. |
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I have found throughout my experiences as the Managing Director of Stage Two Theatre Company and producing for many regional theatre companies that “producing” is generally one of the least favorite roles in any production. Not many creative types enjoy the prospect of raising money, preparing budgets, performing other accounting duties, obtaining insurance, marketing, hiring and firing, organizing the masses and ultimately, not being able to claim the spotlite… There is no direct applause available for a producer. The producer sits through auditions and rehearsals hoping like hell that she has made the right choices and that the production will be brilliant. No one really knows the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes and outside of the actual theatre to provide entertainment for the public audience. I don’t like to appear onstage. For those of you who know me well, you know I’m not a wallflower. I just don’t consider myself a creative type and take great pleasure in surrounding myself with people who I consider to be artistically gifted.
A producer is a rare, paradoxical genius; hard-headed, soft-hearted, cautious, reckless,
a hopeful innocent in fair weather, a stern pilot in stormy weather, a mathematician who prefers to ignore laws of mathematics and trust intuition, an idealist, a realist, a practical dreamer,
a sophisticated gambler, a stage-struck child. That’s a producer.
a hopeful innocent in fair weather, a stern pilot in stormy weather, a mathematician who prefers to ignore laws of mathematics and trust intuition, an idealist, a realist, a practical dreamer,
a sophisticated gambler, a stage-struck child. That’s a producer.
