On July 6 the Staged Reading series premieres Part 2 of an original musical: MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SCREAM  Music by Sidney Friedman, Book and Lyrics by Fran Zell Directed by Corinna Christman Music direction by Sidney Friedman Midsummer Night’s Scream transforms Midsummer Night’s Dream into the tale of a Chicago ghost tour gone awry on a moonlit night rife with […]

Friday,February 2, 2018.  8:00pm at Augustana Lutheran Church (5500 South Woodlawn). Admission $5. Mental. Written and directed by Sasha Austin Schmidt. Featuring: Vanessa Ellis, Corinna Christman, Amelia Snoblin, Tom Lariviere, Bill Hohnke, Leslie Halverson, Samantha Fenno, Michelle Heinz, Oroki Rice. Mental is a one-act play composed of four vignettes which offers a lighthearted look at feeling down […]

January 12, 2018 at 8:00pm at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500 South Woodlawn Avenue. Admission $5 Tom’s a-cold written by David Egan directed by Paul Baker   On May 19, 1845, HMS Terror and Erebus set sail from London to find a Northwest Passage over the Canadian Arctic and across into the Pacific. Neither ship nor crew ever returned […]

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 […]