Show Time! Our One-Act Play Festival Opens Tonight!!!!

March 11, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

The 2nd Act Players’ One-Act Play Festival opens tonight, Saturday, March 11, and it’s not too late to buy your tickets for one fo eight scheduled performances running weekends through March 26. What you will see is two one-act plays performed each evening of the festival. Click here to buy your tickets and avoid long […]

Please Support our Amazing Sponsors

March 10, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

We specifically seek out sponsors that we do or would want to do business with. We trust them and believe they will provide you with both excellent service and great value for your dollars.

Opening Night is Saturday, Come See Two Amazing Plays

March 9, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

Opening night for the 2nd Act Players all-new One-Act Play Festival is this Saturday, March 11. Doors open at 7 for our 7:30 p.m. curtain call. Buy your tickets today to see two new award-winning one-act plays.

Here’s what playwright Tess Light has to say about “The Last Days of Wonder”

March 8, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

Becca Russo, Julie Mitre and Christine O'Keef star in The Last Days of Wonder.

Writing “The Last Days of Wonder” was an act of healing for me — though I generally don’t write confessional or autobiographical plays, this one is largely true. My mother was the grasshopper to my ant, balancing my industry with her sense of fun. Her irresponsible optimism was maddening, and joyous, and terrifying, and infectious. […]

Come see Becca Russo on stage in “The Last Days of Wonder”

March 7, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

Becca Russo will portray Imogen in the 2nd Act Players’ production of the dynamic new one-act play The Last Days of Wonder on March 11-26. Who is Imogen? The actress-daughter of the well-traveled mother, she also lives with her mother while she tries to get her own life together. As the play opens, Imogen is rehearsing for a real-life role […]

Come see Julie Mitre in “The Last Days of Wonder”

March 6, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

Julie Mitre will portray Mother in the 2nd Act Players’ production of the dynamic new one-act play The Last Days of Wonder on March 11-26. Mother has led a wild life. Drinking, Paris, multiple husbands, the world was a blur to her for many years, years in which she wasn’t there for her two daughters. But now her […]

3 reasons to get reacquainted with the 2nd Act Players

March 6, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

There won’t be any Jesuits or references to New York. These plays deal with love — the love of a dying mother for her daughters and them for her, and the love two couples are trying to either find or hold onto.

Come see Christine O’Keefe in “The Last Days of Wonder”

March 5, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

Christine O’Keefe will portray Sue in the 2nd Act Players’ production of the dynamic new one-act play The Last Days of Wonder on March 11-26. Who is Sue? The serious older sister? The successful career woman, wife and mother? Or the little girl who misses her often absent mother? And how will she react when her mother asks […]

Opening Night A Week Away, Come for the Show, Stay for the Events

March 4, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

The 2nd Act Players One-Act Play Festival opens a week from today on Saturday, March 11 with a 7:30 show featuring two dynamic, new one-act plays. Buy your tickets today by clicking here. In addition to the plays, there’ll be special events after every show ranging from talks with cast and directors to a silent […]

Here’s what playwright Richard Lyons Conlon has to say about “Falling Into Macy”

March 3, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

Every relationship is comprised of an ongoing series of scenes. Scenes of discovery, affection, intimacy — possibly love. Unfortunately, there are also sometimes scenes of disaffection, alienation, anger, shutting off, and loss. There are scenes that define a relationship, for better or worse. They often come at completely unexpected moments. They all have inherent drama, […]