Elizabeth Jarrett plays Juliana in It’s My Brooklyn, Too! Her character is the youngest sister in the large Smaldone family, and the one determined to follow a new path from her sisters. She wants a career, something that was very revolutionary for a young woman in 1960 America. Come see how life works out for […]
Read MoreJeffery Brabant will be playing Bill in It’s My Brooklyn, Too! In a play populated by Italian-Americans, Bill is Irish, an outsider trying to gain acceptance from the family matriarch. A young man in a hurry, he is swept up by the optimism brought on by the incoming John F. Kennedy presidency. He symbolizes an […]
Read MoreCaroline Cassidy will play Stella in our December production of It’s My Brooklyn, Too! Stella is the outsider in the Smaldone family, shunned by most of her husband’s sisters, she still dutifully comes to family events but dreams of escaping to a place far from her antagonists. Here, read about Caroline and her acting career. […]
Read MoreGiacoma Bonello will be wearing two hats in our December production of It’s My Brooklyn, Too! She is directing and also playing the role of Faye, the daughter who insists she was poppa’s favorite (you can imagine how her sisters and brother react to that). Gia is Brooklyn born and raised and also the daughter […]
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Rehearsals are beginning in New York for the Big Apple showcase production of Its’ My Brooklyn, Too!, 2nd Act Players’ cofounder John N. Frank’s dramatic look at the American immigrant experience. Cast and friends gathered in late September for their first reading of the script which begins at the 1960 New Year’s Eve party for […]
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The Evanston 2nd Act Players will be holding a table read Sept. 22, Sunday, with a New York cast and director for its founder John N. Frank’s original play It’s My Brooklyn Too! Veteran New York actor and director Giacoma Bonello has been hired to direct and act in the show. The invitation-only reading is […]
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The Midwest Players Theater’s new production of the two-act play Grand Family Foods by Kurt Peters has sold out all four of its scheduled April performances, a tremendous accomplishment for a new theater. The production is being done in cooperation with the Evanston 2nd Act Players. “Kurt’s play about the struggles of a small Midwest […]
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The 2nd Act Players invite you to join us for a very special event on Friday, Feb. 9 — a one-woman show of playwright Eileen Richards’ new, one-act play Running with Coffee. The one-hour play is a tragi-comedy about mid-life, mental health, caregiving and fighting over the washing machine — when your parents move back […]
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John N. Frank, co-founder of the 2nd Act Players, will be portraying an elderly Albert Einstein in a planned stage reading of a new play, Einstein’s Compass produced by Chicago’s Royal James Theater. The reading will take place Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. in The Merion, an Evanston senior-living residence. The part represents Frank’s […]
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Two plays written by 2nd Act Players’ founder John N. Frank will be performed by two other theater groups online this June and July. The plays were originally performed by the 2nd Act Players in 2017 and 2018. A theater group called Play Readings with Friends will read Frank’s New Year’s Eve at Grandma’s House […]
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