![]() ![]() Film and television: Copper (BBC America), King (Showcase), Remains of the Day (Bravo), The Salem Witch Trials (CBS), T his is Wonderland (CBC), Emily of New Moon (CBC), You Tell Me (CBC and IFC), and numerous radio dramas for both CBC and BBC. Other theatre work the title role in The Book of Esther (Blyth Festival), The Miracle Worker, The Secret Garden (The Grand Theatre), The Crucible (Manitoba Theatre Centre) and Wendy in Peter Pan (Citadel Theatre). Five seasons at the Shaw Festival include Drama at Inish, On The Rocks, Ah Wilderness!, and The Children’s Hour. Five seasons at The Stratford Festival include the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank, Queen Isabel in Richard II, Macbeth, Brothers Karamazov, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, The Imaginary Invalid, and The Three Musketeers. to 4 p.m.Maggie is thrilled to be working with Shakespeare BASH'd! Recent credits This Wide Night (SummerWorks), Mary’s Wedding, Jewel (Stephenville Theatre Festival), and Salt Water Moon (Common Roof). The event will feature 30-minute performances by local poets Bud Bartlett (1 p.m.), Walter Lipe (2 p.m.) and Job Conger (3 p.m.).Ĭhildren’s activities, birthday cake, warm spiced cider and coffee will be on tap in a heated tent behind the home from 11 a.m. Saturday at the Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site, 603 S. LindsayĬelebrate the 131st birthday of local poet Vachel Lindsay from 10 a.m. The event features refreshments, a drawing for a $50 gift certificate and the wares of 60 local artists. The Blue Door Gallery will host its sixth annual Ladies’ Night Out from 5-8 p.m. “Revelations” is scheduled to run through Dec. Featured artists are Jane Frey (acrylic/oil), Gloria Josserand (ceramics/pastel/jewelry) and Jerry Josserand (ceramics/jewelry).Ī reception is set for 5:30-7:30 p.m. Smith Gallery at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, 420 S. Monday through Saturday.Īnother new members’ exhibit, “Revelations,” will open Friday in the H. Job Conger will perform, and photographer Jennifer Davis will create “live art” with a Polaroid photo booth ($5). ![]() ![]() Sixth St., and opens with a reception set for 5-8 p.m. “Shimmering Holiday” will be featured at the PAA’s Gallery II, 221 S. The Prairie Art Alliance’s latest member exhibits open Friday at two downtown sites. Tickets: $11 adults, $8 children, available at the Hoogland Center box office, 523-2787 or Art Alliance to unveil ‘Shimmering Holiday’ they all have a common interest in music and dancing and singing and acting.” In an interview, she said they were a pleasure to work with: “Theater kids are a special breed, because it’s not like kids in a classroom. Most of the cast is between the ages of 10 and 13 years old. Trying to make her way to the big-time Advice-a-Palooza show, Edwina directs her friends and the neighborhood kids in a local talent show in her garage.ĭirector Cathy Doyle said 56 people tried out for the 26 roles. “Dear Edwina Junior” tells the story of a young girl - Edwina Spoonapple - whose only talent seems to be giving advice to her friends. #THE AMAZING SPEEDINESS OF JAMIE CAVANAUGH SERIES#The first show in the Springfield Theatre Centre’s by-kids, for-kids White Rabbit Series opens this weekend at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, 420 S. The play is also to feature a live, improvised musical score by two LLCC students.Īdmissions costs $5 at the door seating is limited. The production is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration with the college’s three-dimensional design class, which was to wrap the interior of the Trutter Center in fabric in the style of the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. In the play “No Exit,” philosopher-writer Jean Paul Sartre confined three antagonists in a windowless room for eternity. Tickets: $19 adults, $11 youth (high school and younger), available at the Sangamon Auditorium ticket office, 206-6160 or LLCC students to perform philosopher’s play The show is part of Sangamon Auditorium’s Family Series. ![]() It’s one of the main reasons humans go to see dramas, he said - to identify with someone else. “For the other kids, it’s a way of sensitizing them to the experience of what this kid is like.” “The kids who are left out or think they’re weird, they get to have a play written about them,” Craig said in an interview. “The Incredible Speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh” follows a young girl whose super-speedy superpower gets her into trouble again and again.ĭavid Craig, artistic director of the Roseneath Theatre, said he commissioned the play in order to take kids often on the outside and move them into the center. Friday in SangamonĪuditorium, on the campus of the University of Illinois Springfield. A character with ADD takes center stage at 7 p.m. ![]()
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