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Veteran Twin City director Don LaCasse leads the Heartland Theatre Company in a new production of "Tiny Beautiful Things." The play follows advice columnist "Sugar" as she navigates various letter writers' traumas — and her own.
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The 100th year of the "American Passion Play" will be its last. The production is the longest-running passion play in the country and runs four Saturdays in Bloomington before closing for good.
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Community Players Theatre launches its latest family-friendly show with a witty and whimsical musical based on the ancient tale about the girl with the glass slipper. With no dancing mice in sight, CPT employs Rogers and Hammerstein’s 1957 score with Douglas Carter Beane’s updated book, created for the 2013 Broadway smash hit.
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The theater department at Illinois State University brings to life a satirical (mostly) true telling of local hero John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition through the American West. Powell's journey with other erudite explorers is hilariously captured in the play, "Men on Boats." The play runs Feb. 17-25 in the Westhoff Theatre at ISU.
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Community Players' black-tie gala was no ordinary fundraiser for the troupe, who turned out dressed to the nines for a roaring ‘20s-themed evening of dining, drinking and dancing to celebrate the theater’s centennial. But this party was not only about looking backward at the 100-year history of Community Players. It also was about the future.
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Director Tom Dzurison debuts "The Lifespan of a Fact" at Heartland Theatre Company on Feb. 2. The play, based on a 2012 book of the same name, is about an overzealous "essayist" and the fact-checker of a struggling publication assigned to review his not-quite-true article.
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Community Players Theatre presents the company premiere of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Sweat." The production runs Jan. 6-15 in Bloomington.
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The Illinois Shakespeare Festival announced its 2023 season Thursday during a live-streamed event from Stave in Uptown Normal. The festival begins next June with “The Comedy of Errors,” “The Tempest,” and Lauren Gunderson’s 2017 play, “The Book of Will” running in rotation through August.
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Community Players Theatre kicked off its 100th season Thursday with a new production of Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias.” The show runs two weekends through Sept. 11 at Community Players Theatre in Bloomington.
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Director Tom Mitchell makes his Heartland Theatre debut with 'Suddenly Last Summer,' the Normal troupe's season opener. Mitchell finds relevance in Tennessee Williams' timelessly salient themes — and encourages newcomers to avoid dated interpretations cemented on film.