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• Western Illinois University Theatre and Dance: Woman in Mind

  • Start
    02/17/2023
  •  
    7:30 PM
  • End
    02/18/2023
  • Location
    1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455 (Simpkins Theatre)

  WOMAN IN MIND, By Alan Ayckbourn, Directed by DC Wright

  Tickets: $5

  Show Run: February 17 & 18 at 7:30 PM

  Box Office: (309) 298-2900

  Website: wiu.edu/cofac/theatre

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• Illinois Wesleyan University: Much Ado About Nothing

  • Start
    02/22/2023
  • End
    02/26/2023
  • Location
    2 Ames Plaza East, Bloomington, IL 61701 (Jerome Mirza Theatre)

  MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING By William Shakespeare
  

  Show Run: February 22-26, 2023
  
  Tickets: $5 IWU Students, Faculty, and Staff, $12-$14 General Admission (W/Th/Su), $14-$16 General Admission (F/Sa)

  Box Office: (309) 556-3232
  

  Website: iwu.edu/theatre

  Are gossip and trickery senseless vices? Perhaps not when they provide fodder for Shakespeare’s enduring romantic comedy about two couples’ forays into matters of the heart. Tom Quinn directs one of the Bard’s most beloved and timeless classics.
  

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• University of Illinois Chicago: Yerma

  • Start
    02/24/2023
  • End
    03/04/2023
  • Location
    1040 W. Harrison St. Chicago, IL 60607 (UIC Theatre)

  Yerma, By Federico García Lorca, Directed by Edward Torres

  Show Dates: Feb 24—Mar 4, 2023

  Website: https://theatreandmusic.uic.edu/event/yerma-by-federico-garcia-lorca/?mc_cid=a12395bbf2&mc_eid=f4c4a06dbf

  Yerma was written by Federico García Lorca in 1934 on the eve of the Spanish Civil war.  Now a world-famous revolutionary playwright and poet, Lorca was secretly gay and actively socialist and paid with his life for his political beliefs. Yerma is his play exploring the role of women in rural Spain that he called “a tragic poem”. In the original Spanish, the title character Yerma’s name translates to “barren”, and she is –a woman in the prime of her life who has no children. Most of the town’s people blame Yerma for her inability to conceive.  Her struggle is between her duty to her husband Juan, her inner want of a child and her shame. Unlike a man, who has the land and his work, a woman has nothing but the care of a child to get her through the day, and she is haunted by her desperate desire for motherhood until this obsession drives her into madness. This is a new translation/adaptation by playwright Melinda Lopez. 

  Post-Show Talks: 02/26

  Post-Show Topics: Our Bodies, Our Selves, Our Society

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• Illinois Wesleyan University: Tintypes

  • Start
    03/22/2023
  • End
    03/26/2023
  • Location
    2 Ames Plaza East, Bloomington, IL 61701 (E. Melba Johnson Kirkpatrick Laboratory Theatre)

  TINTYPES, Conceived by Mary Kyte with Mel Marvin and Gary Pearle, Musical and Vocal Arrangements by Mel Marvin, Orchestration and Vocal Arrangements by John McKinney
  

  Show Run: March 22-26, 2023
  
  Tickets: $5 IWU Students, Faculty, and Staff, $7 General Admission

  Box Office: (309) 556-3232
  

  Website: iwu.edu/theatre

  Set amid a wave of immigration and innovation at the turn of the 20th century, Tintypes is a pastiche of Americana set in the shadow of World War I. Guest director Andy Kreiss (BFA Music Theatre ‘86) directs this heart-warming, Tony Award-winning musical revue featuring toe-tapping tunes from the era by John Philip Sousa, Scott Joplin and Victor Herbert, to name a few.

  
  Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

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• Western Illinois University Theatre and Dance: Cabaret

  • Start
    04/05/2023
  • End
    04/09/2023
  • Location
    1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455 (Hainline Theatre)

  CABARET, Book by Joe Masteroff, Based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood, Music by John Kander & Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Directed by Courtney Crouse

  Tickets: $15

  Show Run: April 5 – 8 at 7:30 PM, April 9 at 2:00 PM

  Box Office: (309) 298-2900

  Website: wiu.edu/cofac/theatre

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• The School of Theatre Arts: Appropriate

  • Start
    04/12/2023
  • End
    04/16/2023
  • Location
    2 Ames Plaza East, Bloomington, IL 61701 (Jerome Mirza Theatre)

  FACULTY CHOREOGRAPHED DANCE CONCERT
  

  Show Run: April 12-16, 2023
  
  Tickets: $5 IWU Students, Faculty, and Staff, $12-14 General Admission (W/Th/Su), $14-16 General Admission (F/Sa)

  Box Office: (309) 556-3232
  

  Website: iwu.edu/theatre

  Celebrate spring with our biennial repertory dance concert, featuring SoTA students performing choreography by our talented faculty and an esteemed guest artist!
  

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• University of Illinois Chicago: The Danger: A Homage to Strange Fruit

  • Start
    04/14/2023
  • End
    04/22/2023
  • Location
    1040 W. Harrison St. Chicago, IL 60607 (UIC Theatre)

  The Danger: A Homage to Strange Fruit, By by Stacey Rose, Directed by Ken-Matt Martin

  Show Dates: April 14—22, 2023

  Website: https://theatreandmusic.uic.edu/event/the-danger-a-homage-to-strange-fruit-by-stacey-rose/?mc_cid=a12395bbf2&mc_eid=f4c4a06dbf

  Winner of the 2015 Rita Goldberg Prize, The Danger: A Homage to Strange Fruit, is a theatrical symphony in four movements. Inspired by the mysterious death of Lennon Lacy in Bladenboro, NC, it is a dystopic ghost play that contemplates the legacy of violence against Black bodies in America. The play follows interracial couple He and She into the world of The Station, a long-ago abandoned rail station waiting room, an in-between place. The Station houses Black souls who left the earth in violent ways, and who constantly seek their way home. A kaleidoscope of African-American history featuring fragments of choral chants, choreography, poetry and musical summoning of spirits by the mystical goddess and trickster GYP, The Danger leads He and She on a perilous journey to find their place in the world.  

  Post-Show Talks: 04/16

  Post-Show Topics: Violence, Legacy, and the Spirit

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• Western Illinois University Theatre and Dance: The Gulf

  • Start
    04/21/2023
  •  
    7:30 PM
  • End
    04/22/2023
  • Location
    1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455 (Simpkins Theatre)

  THE GULF, By Audrey Cefaly, Directed by Hadley Kamminga-Peck

  Tickets: $5

  Show Run: April 21 & 22 at 7:30 PM

  Box Office: (309) 298-2900

  Website: wiu.edu/cofac/theatre

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• Western Illinois University Theatre and Dance: Next Wave Dance Concert

  • Start
    04/27/2023
  • End
    04/30/2023
  • Location
    1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455 (Hainline Theatre)

  NEXT WAVE Dance Concert, Directed by Donald Laney

  Tickets: $15

  Show Run: April 27 – 29 at 7:30 PM,  April 30 at 2:00 PM

  Box Office: (309) 298-2900

  Website: wiu.edu/cofac/theatre

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• Western Illinois University Theatre and Dance: BYOP (Bring Your Own Play)

  • Start
    05/05/2023
  •  
    7:30 PM
  • End
    05/06/2023
  • Location
    1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455 (Simpkins Theatre)

  BYOP (Bring Your Own Play), Directed by Adam Lewis

  Tickets: $5

  Show Run: May 5 & 6 at 7:30 PM

  Box Office: (309) 298-2900

  Website: wiu.edu/cofac/theatre

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