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 […]
September Staged Reading
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion Directed by Paul Baker. On the evening of December 30, 2003, Joan and her husband John returned from visiting the hospital where their daughter was in a septic-shock coma, and before dinner had begun, John dropped dead. Joan recorded what it was like to live the year […]