Performing Art | Wednesday, August 27,2008

Fall theatre preview

Autumn is show time. Get your tickets.

[image-2} There is so much theatre happening in the area these days, there doesn't seem to be a spring/summer/fall/winter season anymore — it's just ongoing all year long, which is g

Performing Art | Wednesday, February 13,2008

The laughs are guaranteed

The Nerd continues this weekend at the Hoogland

By Phil Funkenbusch

Untitled Document If you’ve never seen Larry Shue’s play The Nerd, try making a point of catching one of the performances being presented by the Spri

Performing Art | Wednesday, January 30,2008

It’s no Secret. These guys can act!

Play about the Pentagon Papers features stellar cast

By Phil Funkenbusch

Untitled Document This year has already brought exciting theater offerings — including the Springfield Theatre Centre’s Dreamgirls, which warmed things up during two

Performing Art | Wednesday, November 7,2007

Cuckoo redux

Stage version of Ken Kesey novel plays at UIS next week

By Phil Funkenbusch

Untitled Document What has to be the most exciting stage show of the fall is the upcoming One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the stage version of the classic 1962 Ken Kesey novel,

Performing Art | Wednesday, September 12,2007

Pirates, Angels, and Miss Daisy

Fall offers a rich lineup of plays and musicals

By Phil Funkenbusch

Untitled Document The fall theater season has much to offer. Here is just some of what will be happening on area stages. The season starts off in a big way Sept. 21-23 at the

Performing Art | Wednesday, August 15,2007

Heating up the stage

The weather’s just another challenge for outdoor theater vets

By Phil Funkenbusch

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

Performing Art | Wednesday, July 18,2007

Temptation Island

Age-old love story opens at Theatre in the Park

By Phil Funkenbusch

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

Summer Guide 2007 | Thursday, May 24,2007

Break a leg

Area theater venues offer something for everyone this summer

By Phil Funkenbusch

Untitled Document Summer theaters are offering up the new, the old, and the tried-and-true, so there’s something for everyone on area stages this summer. Here are hi

Performing Art | Wednesday, October 11,2006

Killer theater

Springfield welcomes a comedy about presidential assassins

By Phil Funkenbusch

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

Performing Art | Thursday, July 6,2006

For mature audiences only

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

By Phil Funkenbusch

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