Last year The Dixie Swim Club, an unforgettable comedy about five women whose friendships began 33 years ago on their college swim team, enjoyed a successful run at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. Shortly after the show’s close, its director, Susan Jeffers, fell ill and passed away. According to current The Dixie Swim Club […]
Susan Jeffers
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Madness and humor
Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet comes to the Hoogland Center for the Arts. What’s great about this performance is that local actress Aasne Vigesaa is playing the role of Hamlet. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but Springfield is coming up roses with Vigesaa taking the lead. Vigesaa’s talent is sure to make this […]
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Unwavering spirit
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Dairy of Anne Frank opens Theatre in the Park’s summer season May 30. There will be six performances in the outdoor theatre at Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site in Petersburg. “The play transports the audience back more than 70 years to experience what it was to be a Jew […]
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Passion and fashion
Don’t miss attending one of three dinner-theater productions at the Hoogland Center for the Arts of Love, Loss and What I Wore. The show stars some of the most fabulous female talent in Springfield – Nancy Cole, Claire Gordon, Susan Jeffers, Julie Staley and Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson, with Aasne Vigesaa directing. This funny and poignant play […]
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Sons of anarchy
Friday, Feb. 24 is opening night of UIS Theatre’s faculty-showcase production of Sam Shepard’s True West. The story follows two estranged brothers who, once reunited, still mix like water and oil, particularly when older brother Lee’s swindling ways interfere with Austin’s screenplay pitch to a Hollywood producer. Directed by Missy Thibodeaux-Thompson and starring Eric Thibodeaux-Thompson […]
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Dark farce
This dark and humorous play is about a lunch date that goes all wrong between an elderly mother and her two children as a secret is exposed. Springfield Theatre Centre boasts being the first amateur production of this play, written by award-winning Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson and directed by Pat Pennington. Cast members include […]
