Augustana Lutheran Church December 1, 2017 at 7:00pm (please note earlier family-friendly start time) Admission $5 Is Christmas not complete without some special story?  Perhaps the Gift of the Magi, or the Grinch Who Stole Christmas, or The Night Before Christmas?  Come be a child again–and bring any children you may have!–and hear some favorite tales about the […]

Friday, November 3, 2017 at 8pm Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 South Woodlawn Avenue Admission $5 Blues for Mr. Charlie by James Baldwin directed by Oroki Rice In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence–which is loosely based on the […]

This Friday, Oct 6 at 8 pm, Augustana Church (5500 S Woodlawn), see a staged reading of Our Town, by Thornton Wilder.  Dusty Trellis directs, and we perform most of Acts 1 and 3. Thornton Wilder’s classic American play tells the story of small town at the beginning of the 20th Century.  We are introduced by […]

THIRTEENTH MORNING Written and directed by John Poole Friday, Sept 8, 8:00pm Augustana Lutheran Church (5500 South Woodlawn) $5 includes a 1 hour play followed by cookies and conversation. Featuring: Samantha Fenno, Hannah Dorsey, Leslie Halverson, Shonte Wesson, Stephanie Kestelman, Ron Chafetz and Bill Hohnke Our upcoming Friday Staged reading begins as a sequel to Shakespeare’s Twelfth […]

Directed by Paul Baker The Exception and the Rule is a Lehrstück (i.e. “learning play”) by Bertolt Brecht (translated by Ralph Manheim). A hugely influential playwright, Brecht believed theater had a duty to educate as well as to entertain. Written around 1929, Exception confronts a deplorable aspect of black-white relations, all too familiar to us […]