Courting Vampires by Laura Schellhardt, directed by Alexandra Main Jan 20-Feb 12, 2012
From courtroom to courtyard to graveyard, a tangle of love, lust, and loyalty enmeshes two sisters fighting a mysterious opponent.
Directed by Gift ensemble member and Jeff-nominated actress Alexandra Main, award-winning Courting Vampires playwright Laura Schellhardt's plays have been produced in New York, Seattle, Chicago, Washington DC, Providence, Minneapolis, Orlando, Sarasota, San Francisco, Los Angeles, North Carolina, Pasadena, Palo Alto, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Laura received her MFA in playwriting from Brown University where she studied under Paula Vogel and she currently teaches playwriting at Northwestern University.
Palmer Park by Joanna McClelland Glass, directed by Doug McDade March 16-April 8, 2012
Detroit, 1967. A white family moves in next door to a black family in Palmer Park, a neighborhood of highly educated professionals, all committed to creating a truly integrated community. Everyone is kind. Everyone is smart. Everyone is friends. What could go wrong?
Kita y Fernanda director Doug McDade (also current Shattered Globe Managing Director) returns to Clockwise to helm Palmer Park by playwright Joanna McClelland Glass. Glass was born in October 1936 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and has received a Rockefeller grant, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her works have been produced across North America, in England, Australia, Ireland and Germany. She has been an American citizen since 1962 and lives in Chicago, Illinois.
All performance times are Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, Sundays at 3PM at 221 North Genesee St., Waukegan. All tickets $16.50. Phone, 847-775-1500.
"Special Needs" Touches Patrons
As the first Clockwise Production at 221 N. Genesee, "Special Needs" by Madelyn Sergel touched audiences. The video below is courtesy of Comcast.
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