Tickets on sale for “It’s My Brooklyn, Too!”

October 9, 2024.Reading time 1 minute.

Tickets are now on sale for the December performances of It’s My Brooklyn, Too! in Brooklyn Dec. 6-8 and Dec. 13-15. To reserve your seats, simply click here to go to our online box office. Tickets are $45 each. Shows will begin at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings, 3 p.m. on Sundays. Seating is […]

Rehearsals Begin for “It’s My Brooklyn, Too!”

October 9, 2024.Reading time 1 minute.

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 […]

2nd Act Players taking “It’s My Brooklyn Too!” to New York

September 18, 2024.Reading time 4 minutes.

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 […]

“Grand Family Foods” sold out for entire run!

April 24, 2024.Reading time 1 minute.

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 […]

2nd Act Players’ new role — an incubator for new theaters

April 24, 2024.Reading time 3 minutes.

Arts organizations that survived the Covid years found themselves changed, often in ways they never expected. The Evanston 2nd Act Players certainly has. This year has seen the 2nd Act Players become an incubator theater, a place where playwrights can try out new shows before taking them elsewhere, and a place where new theaters can […]

Join us Friday, Feb. 9, for a very special show

January 18, 2024.Reading time 3 minutes.

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 […]

So Now, What? Canceled

November 5, 2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Sadly we are canceling our planned November production of the new play, So Now, What? Ticket buyers will receive refunds through Eventbrite.

2nd ACT ALUM ACTING ACROSS CHICAGOLAND

February 9, 2023.Reading time 1 minute.

2nd Act Players alum continue to make their marks on stages across the Chicago area in early 2023. Valerie Gorman is appearing in The Legend of Georgia McBride at the Metropolis Performing Arts Center in Arlington Heights through March 4. Debra Rodkin is appearing in Driving Miss Daisy at the Jedlicka Performing Arts Center in Cicero […]

2ND ACT PLAYERS’ FOUNDERJOHN FRANK IN TWO UPCOMING SHOWS

February 9, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

John N. Frank, co-founder of the 2nd Act Players, will be portraying the local habadasher in the 1950s’ classic Inherit the Wind at Deerfield’s Theater D this April. Frank also has been cast as the dean of the Sanford Medical School in the Oakton College February staged reading of Let Me Down Easy, a contemporary […]

2nd Act founder’s scripts to be featured across the country this summer

May 25, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

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 […]