TesserAct Radio Players presents Radio Plays at Barrington's White House
Join the Radio Players of TesserAct Theatre Ensemble at Barrington's White House for adventure, laughter and suspense! Solve the crime with Holmes and Watson, save the day with the Lone Ranger and Tonto, laugh out loud with Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly!
The presentation will include four different authentic old-time radio plays, each with its own ambience and charm. In Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Tolling Bell, discover why there has been a rash of funerals in the small town of Barrington, Illinois! In The Lone Ranger: The Return of Butch Cavendish, the masked avenger's origin story is revealed and a touching family story is brought to a close. In Jack Benny: High Noon laugh along as Jack parodies the classic western with a frugal twist, and in Fibber McGee and Molly: The 100th episode, find out if Fibber and Molly will ever get their telegram sent.
Performance Information
Comics, Sleuths and Heroes of Old Time Radio will be presented Thursday, June 20th at 7:30 pm at Barrington's White House, 145 W. Main Street, Barrington, IL 60010.
Tickets ($15 adults & $10 students), and more information are available at Barrington's White House website, on TesserAct Theatre Ensemble's webpage and as a public Facebook event.
Links:
http://www.barringtonswhitehouse.com/events/
https://www.facebook.com/events/274939486768044/?ti=ia
Venue Information
Barrington's White House is located at 145 W. Main Street in the heart of downtown Barrington. Cultural programming at the White House is underwritten in part by generous sponsors, including the Willow Springs Charitable Trust, Kim Duchossois, Mary B. Galvin, Wayne and Nan Kocourek, Barrington Bank and Trust, Barrington 220, Mr. and Mrs. Earle Combs,and Northern Trust. For information, please call 224.512.4066 or go to http://www.barringtonswhitehouse.com.
Award-Nominated
Barrington's White House regulars may remember TesserAct's Broadway World award-nominated production of Thornton Wilder's American Classic, Our Town. Artistic Director Tamara Kist's minimally staged revival was not only nominated for Best Ensemble, but two of its' leading actors (Jil Robinson as the enigmatic Stage Manager and Derek Dillon as the unfortunate Simon Stinson), were nominated for Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively.
Is there such a thing as a tesseract?
The name of the company, TesserAct Theatre Ensemble, TATE for short, was inspired by Tamara Kist's favorite book from fourth grade, A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle. In the book a "tesseract" is defined as a gateway to other dimensions, a wrinkle, if you will, allowing you to cross from one place to another, one time to another, in no time at all. Framed in this way, Tamara felt theater could be experienced as a portal, capable of traversing time streams, traveling to alternate realities -- taking audiences places they might never go on their own, both physically and emotionally, and a new theater company was born.
TesserAct Theatre Ensemble is a local community theater group
and is a 501c3 Illinois non-profit organization
Bringing Theater to the Community and the Community to Theater
If you would like more information, please contact, Jim Sullivan, President of TATE @ 224-770-1433, or tesseracttheatre@yahoo.com