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Well, folks. We’re in the midst of tech week, when the entire company moves into the theatre to finish creating each and every delicately crafted moment of the play, beautifully syncing the ... Read More ›

We have moved from our own “church home,” the rehearsal space at the Glencoe Union Church, to the theatre at 325 Tudor Court and the tech process has begun.  Jack Magaw’s brilliant ... Read More ›

We’ve completed our second week of rehearsal.  Each day, someone brings in something delectable to eat to share with our little family: clementines or caramel corn or cake.  And we continue to ... Read More ›

We’ve finished our first week of rehearsal and already it has been an amazing experience.  Working with Ron O.J Parson and the cast, I am learning so much.  Since the play centers ... Read More ›

In just two short weeks, The Old Settler, the third show of our 2009/10 season, will begin rehearsals here in Glencoe.  We are pleased to introduce four remarkable actors who have never ... Read More ›

Although mostly kept offstage, the major players of Shakespeare’s Hamlet do sweep into Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead from time to time.  These include Hamlet, his uncle Claudius (who has murdered the ... Read More ›

Shakespeare’s Hamlet contains two minor characters, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who are childhood friends of Prince Hamlet.  The two are summoned to the castle by King Claudius (Hamlet’s uncle who usurped the throne) ... Read More ›

When The Maids by Jean Genet closed on Sunday March 22nd, the cast had been together almost every day for five months.  Just before the production ended I caught up with our ... Read More ›

A Minister’s Wife Blog EntryGeorge Bernard Shaw once said: “Hell is full of musical amateurs.”  Well, fortunately, professionalism was leading the way to heaven at Tudor Court last week.  Writers’ Theatre has ... Read More ›