Posts Tagged ‘B.O.O.K: Theatre with a Spine’

In two weeks, the Loft’s very own theatre troupe, B.O.O.K.: Theatre With A Spine, will present its stage adaptation of Marcus Zusak’s award-winning, 2002 comic mystery, I Am The Messenger. Performed by area teens, this exciting, hilarious, and at times unsettling production will overtake the Evanston Public Library’s Community Room space on the first floor.  [...]

Summer programs in the Loft are just around the corner and we here on staff are ramping up our preparations for what plans to be a fun, exciting three months.  First up: OUR SUMMER THEATRE PRODUCTION!!! This summer The Loft’s theatre troupe, B.O.O.K.: Theatre With A Spine, will present a stage adaptation of Marcus Zusak’s hilarious [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the fact that for young adults out there who  really enjoy theatre, but who might want to see more stories on stage featuring characters like them, there aren’t a ton of options.  Sure, there are children’s theatre companies (and the best children’s theatre is inventive, depthful, whimsical, and true – theatre that all [...]

B.O.O.K.: Theatre with a Spine The Loft’s Teen Reader’s Theatre Troupe performs scenes from Laura Resau’s riveting novel, Red Glass. Saturday, May 24, 3 pm, in the Loft! Adults and teens are welcome! With permission from and in gratitude to author Laura Resau. This program is funded by an LSTA grant from the Illinois State [...]

B.O.O.K.: Theatre with a Spine Rehearsal at 3 pm today, Saturday 5/10, in:

March 16, Sunday afternoon, 3 pm in the Loft. Award-winning author and poet Marilyn Nelson comes to Evanston Public Library! Marilyn Nelson has won two Pushcart Prizes, two creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut for five years. Several collections of [...]

B.O.O.K: Theatre with a Spine, presents: Scenes from Life as We Knew it, by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Harcourt, 2006) Saturday, Feb 16 @ 3 pm, in: With permission from and in gratitude to the author. Funded by an LSTA grant.

B.O.O.K: Theatre with a Spine (reader’s theatre troupe) Rehearsal! Saturday, February 9, 3-5, in: