Laura Gordon News

7-Eleven, Inc. and Ferrara Candy Company's Trolli brand are at it again with another Weirdly Awesome collaboration this time featuring (slow clap) sloths, an exclusive Slurpee flavor, Weirdly Awesome straws and a FREE offer.

American Players Theatre (APT) announces its 38th Summer Festival Season, June 10 - October 22, 2017, a diverse lineup of eight classical and contemporary plays in repertory that includes the return and work of visiting Chicago director and Jeff Award-winner William Brown taking on Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters in APT's newly renovated flagship 1140-seat outdoor amphitheater on the Hill. 

Written 30 plus years ago in 1985, the late Milwaukee playwright Larry Shue's award winning Foreigner first debuted at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. After playing Broadway in the 80's, and reprised by numerous theaters across the country on an annual basis, Foreigner returns to the Quadracci Powerhous for the holiday season. Directed by the inimitable Laura Gordon who understands Shue's incomparable blend of humor, relevance and warm heartedness, could re-envision this scenario in a rural Georgia bed and breakfast inn. At the Georgia inn, a British Sergeant, Froggy, rescues his low spirited and shy friend Charlie for a weekend's stay Here Charlie meets the winsome inn owner, Betty, a conspiring reverend, David Marshall Lee, his fiance Catherine, her younger brother, Ellard, and a rapscallion homegrown Georgian, Owen. Throw in Catherine and Ellard's recent inheritance, and the invisible white empire on a starry night, and Shue created a hilarious farce, even when seen several times.

Tomorrow is a big day for America. That's because 7-Eleven stores are serving up FREE coffee on Election Day, the first time the retailer has done so. The fifth quadrennial 7-Election Presidential Coffee Cup Poll officially ends Election Day, and 7-Eleven is closing out the big day in a big way by giving away cups of fresh-brewed coffee, the retailer's most popular proprietary beverage.

7-Eleven kicks off Share-a-Slurpee fun this fall with an exclusive new flavor and a week-long, Buy One-Get One Free Slurpee drink event beginning Monday, Sept. 12, and ending Sunday, Sept. 18. Any size Slurpee cup is eligible at participating 7-Eleven stores.

A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY launches the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's 2016-17 season in a powerful, spectacularly theatrical way on the Robert S. Marx Theatre stage from Sept. 3 through Oct. 1.

Perk up, America. The election season is about to get even more heated. That's because it's time for millions of American coffee-lovers to let their voices be heard in the fifth quadrennial 7-Election Presidential Coffee Cup Poll at participating 7-Eleven stores. 7-Election coffee cups are out and ready to be counted.

It's almost time to head back to school, but there's still time for one more summer Slurpee celebration. 7-Eleven, Inc. is bringing back Bring Your Own Cup days (#BYOCupDay) Friday, Aug. 19 and Saturday, Aug. 20 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY launches the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park's 2016-17 season in a powerful, spectacularly theatrical way on the Robert S. Marx Theatre stage from Sept. 3 through Oct. 1.

America's favorite frozen drink turns 50 this year, and 7-Eleven, Inc. is celebrating its birthday 7-Eleven Day, aka July 11, aka FREE SLURPEE DAY in a BIG way. To celebrate Slurpee Fiftee and 7-Eleven's 89 th birthday, participating stores will give away an estimated 9 million free small Slurpee drinks from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time, Monday, July 11 (7/11), while supplies last.

n a year when the country tries to discern the truth about numerous politician's pasts, presents and futures, Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband attempts to make some sense of blackmail and corruption in the government institutions and individuals who serve their citizens. American Players Theatre takes their audiences Up The Hill for Wilde's summer visual delight. This fascinating production captivates the eye along with the ear dressing the cast in lavish period costumes designed by Matthew J. Lefebvre amid a cream and golden gilded stage, period rooms, courtesy of Scenic Designer Takeshi Kata.

7-Eleven, Inc. customers will be seeing red this summer. The world's largest convenience retailer is working with Sour Patch Kids to introduce an exclusive Sour Patch Redberry-flavored Slurpee drink.

7-Eleven kicks off the "Hundred Days of Summer" with a four-day, Buy One-Get One Free Slurpee event at participating 7-Eleven locations for a limited time beginning Friday, May 27 and ending Monday, May 30, any size, all day for four days.

For fans hungry for the return of Discovery Channel's Shark Week or just plain hungry, 7-Eleven, Inc. is taking a bite out of the 28th annual TV mega-event with a tasty 8-week promotion. Shark Week airs Sunday, June 26, through Sunday, July 3.

American's national Mother's Day arrives, Sunday, May 8, and Next Act Theatre presents a heartwarming, poignant and powerful production to close their season at exactly the right time of year titled Motherhood Out Loud. Conceived by Susan R. Rose and Joan Stein, more than a dozen playwrights revisit motherhood through a series of themed vignettes beginning with 'Chapter One: Fast Births' and finishing with 'Chapter Five: Coming Home.' Directed by Milwaukee's acclaimed Laura Gordon, each chapter features four actors--Doug Jarecki, Michelle Lopez-Rios, Deborah Staples and Tami Workentin--who play the numerous mothers/fathers of various ages and stages throughout the evening.

Being a member of 7Rewards customer loyalty program, just got a little sweeter and saltier. That's because Monday, April 11, through Sunday, April 17, is 7Rewards Week, when members will not only earn stars toward free beverages, they will also get FREE 7-Select snacks and sweets. Every single day.

Two Airheads are better than one. That's why 7-Eleven stores and Airheads Candy created Airheads Day, when Airheads and Slurpee fans can get two treats for the price of one. Airheads Day runs from 12:01 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, April 8, at participating U.S. 7-Eleven stores.Customers can get a FREE small Airheads Xtremes Rainbow Berry Slurpee drink with the purchase of any 2-ounce package of Airheads or Airheads Xtremes candy.

Tonight, Artistic Director Mark Clements and Managing Director Chad Bauman announced Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2016/17 Season to a group of The Rep's subscribers, donors, community leaders, and members of the press.

American Players Theatre (APT) announces its 37th Summer Festival Season, June 3 - October 16, 2016, a diverse lineup of eight classical and contemporary plays in repertory that includes the return and work of two visiting Chicago directors: Derrick Sanders, founding Artistic Director of Congo Square Theatre Company directing The African Company Presents Richard III by Carlyle Brown in APT's intimate 200-seat Touchstone Theatre; and Jeff Award winner William Brown taking on William Shakespeare's King Lear in APT's flagship 1140-seat outdoor amphitheater on the Hill.

What designates a miracle in today's world---or in the realm of theological dogma? Artists might claim every time a concert, a dance, a live performance or visual picture appears constitutes a small creative miracle. Renaissance Theaterworks (RTW) presents numerous theatrical miracles in their transcendent production Agnes of God on stage this winter in the Studio Theater.