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CANTON, Mo. â Bowling Greenâs Trevor Pruitt will be among cast members in the Culver-Stockton College Theatre Departmentâs two upcoming radio dramas, which were first presented in the 1940s and 1950s.
The first radio drama is âCarmillaâ, one of the early works of vampire fiction coming from a 19th century story by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu. It was adapted by Lucille Fletcher, perhaps the most accomplished suspense/horror radio writer of her era with âSorry,â âWrong Numberâ and âThe Hitchhikerâ among her classics. The first broadcast of âCarmillaâ was on The Columbia Workshop on July 28, 1940.
The second play is an original script by Richard Thorne called âThe Shadow Peopleâ, which is about a woman haunted by mysterious people living in the shadows. Loosely based on âThe Horla,â Guy De Maupassantâs late 19th century horror story, âThe Shadow Peopleâ was originally br
Anna Deavere Smith s
Steve H. Broadnax III and featuring Chicago-based actor
Patrese D. McClain.
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 explores the aftermath of the Rodney King riots, featuring 37 characters all played by McClain. The play is created from more than 300 interviews conducted by Smith in the years following the incident.
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 will stream
February 3-14. For tickets and more information, click here.
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John Lloyd Young s Vegas Valentine will stream live from the Space in Las Vegas on
February 12 at 9pm ET. The pay-per-view concert is $30 and the concert with VIP virtual after-party is $100 beginning at 10:45pm ET. The concert will be available OnDemand for one week following the live performance. For tickets and more information, click here.
Dark and wintry days, cold nights: February is the perfect time to cuddle up with some so-called chiller theater. Here are some recommendations for theater productions you can watch from
Tony Kushner s
Angels in America has joined the lineup of National Theatre at Home, the official streaming service of London s
National Theatre.
Marianne Elliott s production was filmed during its 2017 run at the National, prior to its Broadway engagement the next year. The filmed
Angels in America features nearly the exact same cast lineup as the New York run, led by
Nathan Lane and
Andrew Garfield as Roy Cohn and Prior Walter, respectively, roles for which they would eventually win Tonys. To watch, subscribe here. The full production is also available as an audio play, which you can purchase here.
Hershey Felder stars as Sholem Aleichem in
Theater to Stream: Shakespeare Villains and Hot-Tub Dreams
Patrick Page looks at bad guys, Steven Carl McCasland gives us literary women, and Jill Sobule mines her own history, including the dreaded seventh grade.
A still from “The Infinite Wrench Goes Viral,” from The Neo-Futurists, a Chicago performing-arts group. Credit.via The Neo-Futurists
Feb. 3, 2021
Dark and wintry days, cold nights: February is the perfect time to cuddle up with some so-called chiller theater.
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Toxic squares: Travis Schweiger and Chelsea J. Smith, top, and Neal Davidson in Stephen Belber’s “Tape.”Credit.via The Shared Screen
Let’s start with Stephen Belber’s “Tape,” which begins with a character shoveling coke up his nose and goes on from there. In this 2000 play (adapted into a Richard Linklater movie), the friends Vince and Jon have a relationship so toxic, it could qualify as a government cleanup project. Their reunion starts with the needle in the red, then really skids off