Tickets now on sale for the 2019 Women’s Empowerment One-Act Play Festival

April 4, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Tickets are now available for the 2nd act Players’ 2019 Women’s Empowerment One-Act Play Festival which will run weekends from May 11 through May 26. The festival features two plays that look at female characters rising above adversity and stereotypes. Intentions follows main character Katherine on her road to recovery from a massive past trauma, The […]

Meet the Cast for the 2019 Women’s Empowerment Festival

April 3, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

The Evanston 2nd Act Players will be featuring two veteran 2nd Act Players and four newcomers in the cast of its Women’s Empowerment One-Act Play Festival this May 11-26. The festival will feature two plays telling the stories of heroic women. Shannon Leigh Webber The cast for Intentions by Jerome Jagielski will feature Shannon Leigh […]

Winning script selected for Women’s Empowerment Play Festival

March 12, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Intentions, a one-act play that follows main character Katherine on her road to recovery from a massive past trauma, is the winner of the 2nd Act Players’ 2019 One-Act Play Script Competition. Jerome Jagielski of Fontana, Wi., is the winning author of Intentions. Intentions will be produced by the 2nd Act Players this May as […]

2nd Act Players 2019 Season to Feature Joe Simonelli’s Old Ringers, two new one-act plays

February 13, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

The 2nd Act Players’ 2019 will launch May 2 with the premiere of two, new one-act plays dealing with issues of Women’s Empowerment. Those performances will be followed in November by a production of Playwright Joe Simonelli’s Old Ringers, a whimsical look at how four women in their Golden Years find a novel way to […]

Thank you New York

January 30, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

The Institute played to two standing-room only crowds at Xavier High School in New York Jan. 25-26. “We were adding chairs each night. Our veteran cast gave performances people will be talking about for a long time,” says 2nd Act Co-founder and the play’s director and author John N. Frank. Frank wrote the play in […]

Shop Amazon this holiday season, help the 2nd Act Players

November 23, 2018.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Black Friday marks the start of the holiday shopping season. If you’re planning to shop at Amazon, do it through this link to Amazon Smile where a percentage of every purchase will be donated to the 2nd Act Players! It’s a simple and painless way to support local theater, really. Nothing could be simpler and […]

Your last chance to see ‘New Year’s Eve at Grandma’s House’

November 16, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

This weekend will be the final two performances of New Year’s Eve at Grandma’s House by the 2nd Act Players at Northminster Church, Evanston. Audiences so far have loved it, with 85% saying they’d recommend it to a friend. We’re hoping to see some of those friends at this weekends shows, Saturday at 7 and […]

Audiences Rave about “New Year’s Eve at Grandma’s House,” Come See Why

November 13, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Audiences have been raving about the 2nd Act Players production of the all-new New Year’s Eve at Grandma’s House with 85% of those filling out audience satisfaction surveys during the first two weeks of performances saying they would recommend the show to a friend. Audience members also gave the play high marks for character and […]

Opening Weekend Audiences Rave about New Year’s Eve at Grandma’s House

November 5, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Opening weekend audiences were almost universal in their praise for the new 2nd Act Players’ show, New Year’s Eve at Grandma’s House. Comments such as “Great, it was great!” and “The acting was really good,” were common on audience feedback forms during the first two shows Nov. 3 and Nov. 4. Other comments: “Timely, serious, […]

Two Generations — Clashing Dreams — Come see New Year’s Eve at Grandma’s House

October 16, 2018.Reading time 1 minute.

Immigrants traditionally have come to the United States in search of a better life. And they’ve brought with them their old-world ways as they try to fit into this very new world. Arriving immigrants have taken on the lowliest jobs, worked multiple jobs, done all they had to so their families, and particularly their children […]