The 2nd Act Players, only four years after producing their first play in Evanston, have been nominated for the Mayor’s Awards for the Arts this year. “We’re thrilled with the nomination, especially as this is our first year in our new theater home here in Evanston at the Northminster Presbyterian Church,” says 2nd act Players […]
Read MoreThe 2nd Act Players’ 1960s soiree is only hours away, starting at 5 tonight, Saturday, at 922 Davis Street in downtown Evanston. Stop by to have some appetizers, cookies, wine and cheese while hearing from a panel who lived through the turbulent 1960s about what that era was like. You also can bid on more […]
Read MoreThe 2nd Act Players have begun work on its fall production, the original two-act play The Institute, which looks at the lives of four young men attending military school during the height of the Vietnam War. “This is a much different look at that era than other plays have taken,” explains playwright John N. Frank. […]
Read MoreThe 2nd Act Players is moving into a new theater-home at Northminster Church in Evanston and now, more than ever, we need an army of volunteers to make our productions in our new home as successful as they had been when we were only a pop-up theater renting other people’s spaces to perform. Help us […]
Read MoreArLynn Leiber Presser’s Remembrance played to near sold-out houses for its limited three-show engagement at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center in late January. The play marked the first co-production by the 2nd Act Players and the end of the 2nd Act Players first full season of plays in Evanston. More than 170 theater goers saw one of the […]
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