Heating up the stage

The weather’s just another challenge for outdoor theater vets

Untitled Document Every year at least one Muni Opera show suffers from the intense summer heat. This year’s victim was Oklahoma!, which ended the Muni season this past week

Temptation Island

Age-old love story opens at Theatre in the Park

Untitled Document I have a hunch that one of the highlights of the area’s summer theater will be the rarely seen musical Once on This Island, which opens Friday, July 20, at New

Killer theater

Springfield welcomes a comedy about presidential assassins

Every morning for nearly two years now, I’ve passed a lifelike figure of John Wilkes Booth on my way to work at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. This week, Booth comes to life onstage in

For mature audiences only

Danger: Adult Content premiers at the Hoogland: Chicago at the Muni

Onstage this week is a two-performance bill of short plays titled Danger: Adult Content, featuring a group of local actors performing 10 short pieces by contemporary American playwright

A kiss is still a kiss

Theatreworks stages the comedic and unsettling drama Stop Kiss

Don’t call Diana Son’s 1998 play Stop Kiss a political piece. It’s a love story. The first time Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson, assistant professor of theater at Illinoi

The play’s the thing

"Degrees of Lucky," a one-act play written by the late Judy Dyer, premieres Monday at UIS

“My radiation oncologist cruelly resisted my pleas. I begged him to irradiate the unaffected breast so it would be big and perky and glow in the dark like the one they

Who's the Man?

Springfield Theatre Centre stages 1939 comedy hit

Harvest time

Fall yields a bumper crop of theater

Two weeks to stardom

On a Wednesday afternoon in early July, five teachers huddle in a cluttered second-floor office in the Hoogland Center for the Arts to plan the third and final session of summer theater camp

Taking it to the edge

Teen theater troupe present challenging play this weekend