Springfield Theatre Centre is presenting Tennessee Williams’ drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof this weekend, March 14 through 16, in a production directed by Ed Smith. If you’re wondering why STC seems determined to revive old Williams plays (it produced A Streetcar Named Desire in 2001), perhaps these 50-year-old war horses are back in […]
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If you’re planning to take in Charlotte’s Web at the Springfield Theatre Centre over the next two weekends (May 9 to 11, and 16 to 18) you might consider going twice. Director Nancy Miller has cast the leading role of “Charlotte” with two of Springfield’s strongest young performers, Talor Lutz and Molly Mathewson. It might […]
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A touring company of the drama The Miracle Worker makes a stop at UIS’s Sangamon Auditorium for one performance Saturday, April 25 (call 206-6160). The four-month, 40-city national tour comes from the Montana Repertory Theatre in Missoula. William Gibson originally wrote The Miracle Worker as a 1957 television play. It went on to win a […]
