Category: Featured
Coming this November: “New Year’s Eve at Grandma’s House”
Join the 2nd Act Players this November for a unique look at the American immigrant experience in this all-new, two-act drama, New Year’ Eve at Grandma’s House. An Italian-American family gathers to celebrate New Year’s Eve 1960, its first without the family patriarch. The country is changing with the election of the first Catholic president ...
Thank you to our #MeToo Play Festival audiences and…
With only one show left this weekend for our #MeToo Play Festival, we want to say thank you to our audiences, our sponsors, our actors, playwrights, post-show-panelists, director, crew and our donors. This has been the most powerful work we have done in the five years since the 2nd Act Players came into existence. Theater ...
Opening weekend audiences give unanimous ‘thumbs up’ to #MeToo Play Festival
Opening weekend audiences were overwhelmingly positive in their praise for the 2nd Act Players' #MeToo Play Festival, with 100% of those who filled out evaluation forms saying they would recommend the festival to a friend. In addition, 93% rated the performances as either excellent or good. "These plays and these actors really connected with our ...
Opening night #MeToo Play Festival audience gives rave reviews
The overwhelmingly majority of those who attended the opening night performance of the 2nd Act Players' #MeToo Play festival rated the show excellent and said they would recommend it to friends. Most also said the show would prompt them to attend future 2nd Act Players' performances. "These plays on sexual abuse, harassment, discrimination and marginalization ...
Come see what the media’s writing about — our #MeToo Play Festival
Word is starting to spread about the 2nd Act Players' #MeToo Play Festival. The Daily Northwestern, the student newspaper for Northwestern University, wrote about us today, click here to read what they had to say. The festival also is getting coverage in the Evanston Patch and Evanston Roundtable. And there's more to come. Evanston Live ...
Meet #MeToo Play Festival actor Shaul Guerrero
These scripts spotlight familiar emotions and even situations I have experienced or witnessed with close friends. Each script stirs questions with how sexism and abuse buds it’s head and how people deal.
Meet #MeToo Play Festival Actor Eric Deutz
The 2nd Act Players #MeToo Play Festival will star six amazing actors, each of whom will be playing a variety of roles in our six short plays. Today, read about Eric Duetz and then click here to buy your tickets for the festival. 1. What prompted you to become an actor? It started with the ...
