Locals Johnny Molson and Mary Young star in the Lanford Wilson Pulitzer Prize-winning play Talley’s Folly at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, March 14-16 and 21-23. Set in Missouri during 1944, Matt Friedman is a Jewish accountant from St. Louis who has returned to a rural boathouse where he met Sally Talley to profuse […]
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Droll duo
PHOTO COURTESY HOOGLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS Six performances of The Odd Couple take place, Jan. 24-26, 31 and Feb. 1-2. This classic comedy by Neil Simon opens with a group of guys in the middle of a heated poker game at the apartment of divorced sports writer Oscar Madison. And if the mess is […]
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Good things in small packages
Springfield Theatre Centre presents Annie, Dec. 6-8 and 13-15. The beloved musical set during the Depression follows an optimist orphan named Annie from her life in an orphanage to the home of New York millionaire Daddy Warbucks. Annie is played by Sydney Geyston and Daddy Warbucks is Jim Leach. Directed by Rich McCoy, the six productions will […]
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Killer catch-all
The longest continuously running stage production, The Mousetrap, will be performed at the Hoogland Center for the Arts Club Room the weekend of May 4-6. The story follows a group that becomes snowed in at an old English manor in the remote countryside. When two murders take place, guests try desperately to prevent a third, […]
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Opposites attract
The classic Neil Simon romantic comedy finds a pair of newly married lovers, who embody Oscar and Felix-like traits, trying to live with each other’s idiosyncrasies. Six performances are slated at the Hoogland Center for the Arts for this Gordon Productions play sponsored by Staab Funeral Home and 970AM WMAY. Jenn Wellhausen and Matthew T. […]
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Moving drama
Matthew T. Dearing (Mitch Albom) and Barry Weiss (Morrie Schwartz) play the leads in the moving drama Tuesdays with Morrie. Tuesdays with Morrie centers on Mitch, an accomplished journalist driven solely by his career, and Morrie, his former college professor. Sixteen years after graduation, Mitch catches Morrie’s appearance on a television news program and learns […]
