Boys in the Basement is the most ambitious production yet for the infant 2nd Act Players. When you come to a performance in November, you will see a staircase built for the play, along with a laundry folding table strong enough for people to sit on, a bookcase and other stage dressing to transport you into […]
Read More“Past 2nd Act Players shows have had sellout nights, so we’re expecting big crowds for this year’s performance as well,” says 2nd Act cofounder John N. Frank.
Read MoreThis is a really exciting time for the actors because now they can fully discover their characters.
Read MoreI would eventually meet other divorced men and we would create new friendships. I often wished we could all sit around together in the evenings and talk about our struggles, but we lived in widely spread out locations.
Read MoreBoys in the Basement opens Nov. 6, less than a month away. Tickets are already selling and the production, which focuses on the heartbreak of divorce from the male perspective, is getting media attention. So buy your tickets today, waiting might mean you won’t be able to see this ground-breaking original work from the 2nd […]
Read MoreWhatever comes up, Frank will be trying to talk about his latest play, Boys in the Basement which opens Nov. 6 in Evanston.
Read MoreChildren are the victims of divorce, caught in events totally beyond their control and scarred by them nonetheless. Boys in the Basement looks at how men think about their children in divorce. Some men struggle to stay involved in tier children’s lives after divorce, others can not bear the pain and simply disappear, leaving children […]
Read MoreBoys in the Basement looks at divorce circa 1993, before the Internet and before online dating, in the United States. By way fo comparison, 1993 was the busiest year on record for divorce in the U.K., according to the inforgraphic below. It saw 165,018 couples getting divorces there. Boys in the Basement centers around the 1993 divorce of […]
Read MoreBoys in the Basement looks at the heartbreak and wreckage that divorce brings. Men suffer through it as do women, but men seldom speak about their pain. This show will give you insights into how men cope, often badly, with the aftermath of divorce. We’ll be looking at divorce statistics all this week in the […]
Read MoreBoys in the Basement, a poignant look at the heartbreak of divorce from a man’s perspective, opens in one month at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center in Evanston. Performances are Fridays, Nov. 6 and Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays Nov. 7 and Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays Nov. 8 and Nov. 15 […]
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