Schaumburg Library schedules bus trips to three renowned theaters

Theater lovers have the opportunity to see three productions at acclaimed theaters this summer by signing up for bus trips at the Schaumburg Township District Library, 130 S. Roselle Rd., Schaumburg. Registration and prepayment are required for all of the following performances. To register, visit the Information Desk on the library's second floor, or call (847) 923-3347 to pay by phone with a credit card.

"Shining Lives: A Musical," kicks off the summer bus trips with a story set in Chicago and based on a true story. The motorcoach leaves at 5:45 p.m., Friday, June 12, from the library parking lot, and heads to the Northlight Theatre in Skokie, then returns at 11:30 p.m. Set in 1922, "Shining Lives" tells the story of the young women of Chicago's Radium Dial Company, who discover the "harmless" radium leads to devastating results. The fee for premium seating and transportation is $60. An optional boxed meal aboard the bus is available for $9.

The motorcoach for "City of Angels," a 1940s musical, will leave at 10:15 a.m., Wednesday, July 1, from the library parking lot for a matinee performance at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. Theater-goers will return at 4:15 p.m. Set on two stages, "City of Angels" is double the laughs and intrigue as two plots unfold around a young New York writer who arrives in Los Angeles to turn his best-selling crime novel into a screenplay. A fee of $72 covers transportation, theater and lunch at King's Wharf.

Playwright Heidi Schreck's humorous "Grand Concourse" will be the destination of a library trip leaving from the parking lot at 3:30 p.m., Friday, Aug. 7, for the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. Attendees will return at 11:30 p.m. In "Grand Concourse," two unlikely friends meet while volunteering at a Bronx soup kitchen. The registration fee of $97 includes a family-style Italian dinner at Vinci's before the show, as well as transportation and play tickets.