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A Follow Spot: GLASS MENAGERIE Shines at Heartland
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Monday, April 20, 2015. GLASS MENAGERIE Shines at Heartland. Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. May be over 70, but it still seems young and fresh on the stage. There's a reason for that. It lies in Williams' central conflict, with a mother so lost in what she wants for her children that she doesn't see who they are or what they. Want The parent/child impasse, the desperation, the inability to understand. It's achingly real. As Laura, Elsa Torner is lovely and delicate, visibly shattering at even a...
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A Follow Spot: January 2015
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Ready for Some STICKY? If you saw October or December's editions of Sticky in the Stick. S, a site-specific performance of ten-minute plays produced by local theatre artists, you already know you'll be there for January's Sticky. Called Bottoms Up/Lights Down. It's this Friday, January 30, at 8 pm. Connie Chojnacki Blick and J. Michael Grey are once more behind this Sticky. Stuff, where ten-minute plays set in a bar are. Ta da! Performed in a bar! The Bottoms Up/Lights Down.
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A Follow Spot: Very Late for May!
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Monday, May 11, 2015. Very Late for May! May has been happening all around me and I am egregiously late in giving you the 411. Or 5-11, since that is today's date. Let's get this May party started, tardy or not. First, Laughter on the 23rd Floor. A Neil Simon comedy that hit Broadway in 1993, opened last weekend at Community Players. There's one more weekend of this Laughter. S John Slattery, recent Oscar winner J. K. Simmons and Mark Linn-Baker, TV's Cousin Larry from Perfect Stranger. With Welles playi...
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The Thin Thread | Halloween
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Mixed media, embroidery, fabric painting, DIY project, Banner and handmade handicrafts. September 4, 2016. You are here: Home. On October 19, 2012. No great Halloween costume is complete without some fun accessories. And these accessories can be made even more fun when you make them yourself. Here’s an easy way of making cute Halloween accessories, appropriate for all ages, without breaking the bank, and having fun at the same time. Using the screwdriver, make a hole in the top of each eraser. Five more ...
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A Follow Spot: Stephen Adly Guigis Wins Pulitzer for BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. Stephen Adly Guigis Wins Pulitzer for BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY. Between Riverside and Crazy. Stephen Adly Guirgis' darkly comic play that had runs at both the Atlantic Theater Company. And the off-Broadway Second Stage Theatre in New York, has been named the winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, awarded to "a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life.". The Pulitzer committee describes Guirgis' play as.
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A Follow Spot: Time for the Tony Nominations!
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Time for the Tony Nominations! It's an exciting time of year for theater fans. Time for the Tony nominations. The annual Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre honor the best shows, performers and designers on Broadway. Earning nominations has helped plays of the past gain visibility, while getting a performance slot on the awards show has helped sell tickets for many a musical. So whose show will reign supreme this year? Film-to-stage musical An American in Paris.
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A Follow Spot: May 2015
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Monday, May 11, 2015. Very Late for May! May has been happening all around me and I am egregiously late in giving you the 411. Or 5-11, since that is today's date. Let's get this May party started, tardy or not. First, Laughter on the 23rd Floor. A Neil Simon comedy that hit Broadway in 1993, opened last weekend at Community Players. There's one more weekend of this Laughter. S John Slattery, recent Oscar winner J. K. Simmons and Mark Linn-Baker, TV's Cousin Larry from Perfect Stranger. With Welles playi...
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A Follow Spot: "Being Alive" for 45 Years -- TheaterMania Celebrates Sondheim's COMPANY
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. Being Alive" for 45 Years - TheaterMania Celebrates Sondheim's COMPANY. As we bid a fond farewell to April, it is worth noting that Company. The Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical about marriage, commitment, friendship and growing up, celebrated its 45th birthday earlier this week. It has been 45 years since this fresh, funny show about a bachelor named Bobby (baby, bubby) opened on Broadway. Or is being alone just being alone, not alive? In honor of Company. Humana Festival,...
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A Follow Spot: The New List of Nominees for Chicago's Non-Equity Jeff Awards
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. The New List of Nominees for Chicago's Non-Equity Jeff Awards. When the Joseph Jefferson Awards. Committee first announced their non-Equity nominees for excellence in Chicago theatre, the Hypocrites and their production of All Our Tragic. Ineligible for the non-Equity part of the Jeff Awards. Graney self-reported and the nominations were rescinded. With other nominees taking the slots in some categories. Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre. A Kurt Weill Cabaret. Always.Patsy Cline,.
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A Follow Spot: More "Mauritius" with the Charming Sarah Stone Innerst
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012. More "Mauritius" with the Charming Sarah Stone Innerst. A few days ago, we heard from Kevin Paul Wickart. On the subject of Theresa Rebeck's " Mauritius. Opening February 16th at Heartland Theatre. Wickart plays Philip, the owner of a dusty and somewhat forlorn stamp shop. He's one of three men interested in nabbing some valuable stamps - the Mauritius Post Office. Thanks for letting me ask you all these questions, Sarah! Yes, Josh and I came to Bloomington-Normal in June 2009 ...
