Theater at Monmouth kicks off Season 44 on Thursday, July 4 at 7:30 p.m. with Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Monty Python meets Don Quixote in this hilarious comedy by one of Shakespeare's most popular contemporary playwrights.Imagine Homer and Marge Simpson attending a play only to climb on stage to redirect the show with Bart as the star, and you have some idea of the fun unleashed in Pestle. Loaded with laughter and song, this play is a celebration of the way Elizabethan audiences expected to be part of the action-with superlatively silly results!
The Glass Menagerie holds in its shadowed fragility the stamina of success.' - So reads legendary theatre critic Claudia Cassidy's first sentence from the 'most famous review in Chicago theater history' in the Chicago Tribune on December 27, 1944.
The Glass Menagerie holds in its shadowed fragility the stamina of success.' - So reads legendary theatre critic Claudia Cassidy's first sentence from the 'most famous review in Chicago theater history' in the Chicago Tribune on December 27, 1944.
The Glass Menagerie holds in its shadowed fragility the stamina of success.' - So reads legendary theatre critic Claudia Cassidy's first sentence from the 'most famous review in Chicago theater history' in the Chicago Tribune on December 27, 1944.
Closing the season with its annual Shakespeare-under-the-Stars, First Folio will present
one of the Bard's darkest romances. Two families under a mysterious, age-old curse; children thrown together in the face of a dark fate; young men dying violently and needlessly; a strange priest dabbling with experimental drugs; a young woman haunted by visions of tombs and ghosts. This is Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, set in the Age of Romance and Revolution--amidst gorgeous poetry, brutal fights, elegant dances, where the dream of love turns into an eerie nightmare, taking the audience on a ride that hurtles them from a young woman's bedroom to a corpse-filled tomb. With direction and fight choreography by artistic associate Nick Sandys, this tale of star-crossed lovers will chill and thrill audiences anew. Tickets are available online at www.firstfolio.org or by calling the box office at 630-986-8067.
Chicago Playworks for Families and Young Audiences Presents HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES Rushdie's Award-Winning Children's Novel Comes to the Stage in Chicago
Chicago Playworks for Families and Young Audiences Presents HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES Rushdie's Award-Winning Children's Novel Comes to the Stage in Chicago
Chicago Playworks for Families and Young Audiences Presents HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES Rushdie's Award-Winning Children's Novel Comes to the Stage in Chicago
