Cast Announced for THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER THING By On The Spot Theatre Company

On The Spot Theatre Company presents, This, That, and The Other Thing!, a matinee featuring a delightful trio of one-act gems. 'Only You Can Think That' visits a philosophical café where the quirky proprietor is intrigued by a frustrated consultant who turns people's small problems into big ones to put their lives into perspective. 'That is That', a play within a play, takes comedy to hyperbolic proportions as the characters negotiate questions of status, power, and control, on two levels of reality at once. 'Fragments from the Permanent Collection', follows a lonely astronomer who approaches a manuscript typist on the majestic central staircase of the Art Institute of Chicago as the arc of a relationship plays out in miniature in a series of intertwining scenes.

Artistic Director

Mike Brayndick, of the On the Spot Theatre Company, began as resident writer at the Chicago Playwrights' Center with Fragments from the Permanent Collection, Connecting Flight, Anna Gerhardt, and In the Garden of the Prison, also broadcast on WJUF. His adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers toured England, and was performed at London's Bloomsbury Theatre. Smithsonian and Luce Foundation grants led to How to Make a Rainbow, developed at the Juilliard, and directed by Mike at the 2005 St. Ives Festival in the UK and the Greenhouse Theater Center in Chicago in 2013. Also at the Greenhouse, On the Spot presented his adaptations of Turgenev's Home of the Gentry and Balzac's, Pére Goriot, as well as his drama, Pieces of Klee. Mike's contemporary comedies Only You Could Think That, What About Martha, All about Armando, Sex Lives of the Zebra Finch, Lost and Found, and Lisette Dances Divine, have all been produced in Chicago by On the Spot.

This, That, and The Other Thing! will be performed at the Berger Park Coach House Theatre, 6205 N. Sheridan Rd., for five consecutive Saturday matinee performances starting Saturday, March 31st and closing on Saturday, April 28th. Showtime will be 2:30 p.m.

Tickets are $15 all seats!

For advance tickets go to Brown Paper Tickets at http://thisandthat.bpt.me or call
(800) 838-3006. Tickets are also available at the theater for cash at the door.

Special bonus for theater lovers: Double Play! Just add $10 to your matinee tickets, and get discounted General Admission seats for On the Spot's featured full-length comedy Brick Wall, written and directed by Mike Brayndick. Select the Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night performance of your choice. Shows are 7:30 p.m. March 29th - April 28th. For only $25 you can enjoy Double Play, more than a 25%+ discount! Can true love really survive in a stairwell? You will just have to enjoy them all to get the answer.

For advance tickets to Double Play go to Brown Paper Tickets at https://onthespotdoubleplay.bpt.me or call (800) 838-3006. Tickets are also available at the theater for cash at the door.

PHOTO: Austin Cornett, Marla Seidell, Regina Barry, and Baird Brutscher

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