Don’t Miss I Am The Messenger the Play July 12, 2009

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.  You’ll watch an energetic ensemble of actors and technicians create the story and evoke its settings, hear live music, and see short video segments produced and directed by members of the acting troupe.  TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY!  FREE! 

About IATM: When 19 year old cabdriver Ed Kennedy – local deadbeat, hopeless card player, and sad-sack lover – unwittingly stops a bank robbery he begins receiving Aces in the mail.  Each playing card, inscribed with clues, leads Ed to different addresses around his hometown where he must act to change the lives of the people inside.  He has been chosen “to care,” he has been chosen to be “the messenger,” but by whom?   Would you follow the cards?  Would you have the courage to complete each clue even in the face of mortal danger?  And just who is behind Ed’s mission?  Come to the Evanston Public Library on July 25 or 26 to see our theatre troupe rock this “story of laughter, fists, and romance” live. 

Where: Evanston Public Library, Community Room, 1st Floor

When: Saturday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 26 at 3 p.m.

Cost: FREE!

(This production is recommended for anyone 12 years old and up).

Don’t-Miss Theatre: Remember Me Like This February 22, 2009

How do you find the courage to discover who you are, what you can be, when the people you trust have violated you, abandoned you, shattered your hope?

The Albany Park Theatre Project (APTP), a “multiethnic, ensemble-based theater company of teens and young adults,” explores that question in their new production, Remember Me Like This.   APTP presents intense, raw, and shocking original works of theatre (written by young adults) about the lives of teens in Chicago’s Albany Park.  Stories of immigrant and working-class families, stories of youth betrayed and stories of empowerment gained, the productions this exceptional ensemble has performed have received rave reviews from critics and audiences alike.

Remember Me Like This runs Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m. until March 28th at The Laura Wiley Theater, 5100 North Ridgeway, Chicago, IL.

Buy Tickets By Phone:
773.866.0875

or

Buy tickets online by following this link.

(My experience has been that it’s best to snag tickets early - they sell out quickly!).

Oedipus Rex November 1, 2007

Oedipus Rex 

The Freshman-Sophomore production of Oedipus Rex opens tonight in the Upstairs Theatre of Evanston Township High School. Tickets are $7. Students & Seniors $5.

Showtimes: November 1, 2, 3 @ 7 pm.

Check out a copy of the tragedy of Oedipus the King.