Spring cleaning is an annual ritual in our house, and one we’ve turned into a great fund-raising opportunity for our 2nd Act Players. If you;re in the midst of cleaning out your closets as well, here’s a perfect opportunity to donate your gently used treasures to the 2nd Act Players Annual Yard Sale which will […]
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The 2nd Act Players invites aspiring playwrights to enter its 2017 short-script competition. Six winning scripts will receive staged readings by the 2nd Act Players in September. “We had such a great response to our script contest last year, we had to do it again, but in a bigger way” says 2nd Act Founder and […]
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The 2nd Act Players will be featuring seven new works for the stage in their 2017 season. In September, they will host a weekend of staged readings of six new short plays by local authors, followed in November by the new two-act play, Moving Boxes, the joys and trials of caring for an aging adult. […]
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The 2nd Act Players is in the midst of planning its 2017 season and we want to hear from you! What type of plays would you like to see us performing at our theater in Northminster Church, Evanston? We’ve already asked people who have come to our past five years of plays, but we want […]
Read MoreThe 2nd Act Players’ One-Act Play Festival has only THREE MORE PERFORMANCES this weekend, March 24-26. You still have time to come and see two one-act plays that audiences have been raving about. “Great, true to life and true about marriage, siblings and the death of a parent” wrote one audience member who attended a […]
Read MoreThe opening night audience for the 2nd Act Players’ One-Act Play Festival raved about the performances they saw Saturday, March 11, with 100% of those who filled out evaluation forms saying they would recommend the festival to a friend. All the respondents rated the performances as either excellent or good with none rating it fair […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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