Lighting Co
Clearwing Productions
Venue
Kirkland Fine Arts Center
Millikin University
Decatur, IL
Lighting Co
Performance Lighting/Stewart Independent Production
Venue
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL
Being your own boss (or lack thereof) is everyone’s dream: Working for yourself with only you telling yourself what to do and where to go. No reporting to someone, turning in those damn TPS reports. Ah, the ultimate American dream, it is what this country of ours was founded on.
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The recent revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man features a stellar cast performing a 52-year-old political drama that is as relevant and important today as when it first emerged. The compassionate Secretary William Russell (John Larroquette) and his less experienced, cutthroat competitor Senator Joseph Cantwell (Eric McCormack) play political rivals in the same party seeking the endorsement of former President Arthur “Artie” Hockstader (James Earl Jones). The escalating drama echoes the dirty tactics being used in modern politics, and the witty, often biting dialogue really transports audiences into this intense race that unfolds primarily in two hotel suites during convention time.
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Given the general state of the economy, these are hardly the best of times. But when you take a close look at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival, which was held in Indio, CA over two consecutive weekends in mid-April, it’s pretty obvious that they aren’t the worst of times, either.
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Broadway Revives Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell
He’s baaack …
Broadway revivals of the Messianic musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell, are helping The Great White Way find religion, once again. Although this is the fourth time Superstar has been staged on Broadway (it’s only the Second Coming of Godspell), the music and grand story arcs of these Jesus sagas remain as gripping and powerful as ever.
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