Tonight’s staged reading has come and gone. This is my first experience doing one, and I have to say it’s nice to get to direct something without having to give your entire life to it. With basically four weeks, only two rehearsals with the musicians and actors together, and only one run-through in the space […]
February Staged Reading: W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well and The Dreaming Of The Bones,
So on Friday, February 3 at 8:00 pm at Augustana Lutheran Church (assuming the world has not yet ended), my hardy band of players, singers, and musicians will do staged readings of two of Yeats’s dance plays: At the Hawk’s Well and The Dreaming of the Bones. Each play runs about 20 minutes and there will […]
February Staged Reading: W. B. Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well and Dreaming of the Bones
When: Friday, February 3, 8:00pm Where: Augustana Lutheran Church This February our staged reading will consist of two short plays by William Butler Yeats, At the Hawk’s Well (1916) and The Dreaming of the Bones (1919). Both plays were inspired by Yeats’s encounter with the Japanese No theater, an art form that synthesizes drama, music, and dance. Yeats drew […]
Win Tickets to Arturo Ui
Election season got you down? Let us help you laugh away some of the ridiculousness of the presidential process by enjoying our upcoming reading The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht. AND: enter to win tickets to the reading. It’s simple! Just: Go to our Facebook post about the contest “Like” the post […]
November Staged Reading
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht November 4th, 8:00 pm It’s Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator meets James Cagney’s The Public Enemy! Join us in 1930s Chicago for this gangster comedy that hilariously skewers pre-WWII Germany. Directed by Nathan Agin A parable play written in 1941, it chronicles the rise of Arturo […]
October Staged Reading
Two Noel Coward One-Acts “Ways and Means” and “Star Chamber,” directed by Christopher Skyles Friday, October 7th at 8:00 pm Join us for the sparkling wit of Noel Coward with two of his plays from the Tonight at 8:30 series. The reading will be followed by the usual refreshments and discussion. It promises to be […]