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A Body of Water

A Body of Water

INDEPENDENT PLAYERS, now in its 47th Season of producing live theater in Elgin and the Fox River Valley, is excited to present it’s final production of 2024 with Lee Blessings’ superb play, A Body of Water with performances September 27-29 and October 4-6.  “Moses and Avis, an attractive, middle-aged couple, wake…

THE OUTSIDERS

THE OUTSIDERS

Coming of Age in 1960’s America One afternoon in Tulsa Oklahoma, in the 1960’s a 15-year-old student at Will Rogers High School named Susan Hinton witnessed a friend being attacked by a gang of boys on his way home from school. That was “life” in her rough, working-class neighborhood. Rival…

“THE WALTZ OF THE TOREADORS” by JEAN Marie Lucien Pierre ANOUILH – Cancelled

“THE WALTZ OF THE TOREADORS” by JEAN Marie Lucien Pierre ANOUILH – Cancelled

## We’re sorry, but due to an unexpected illness, this play is canceled ##. To open its 47 th Season and in its effort to introduce its audience toplays by exceptional French playwrights of the 20 th Century, INDEPENDENTPLAYERS will present Jean Anouilh’s The Waltz of the Toreadors by JeanAnouilh.…

INDEPENDENT PLAYERS presents Collected Stories by Donald Margulies

INDEPENDENT PLAYERS presents Collected Stories by Donald Margulies

  INDEPENDENT PLAYERS presents Collected Stories by Donald Margulies           As its first production of its 46th Season, Independent Players proudly presents Collected Storiesby Donald Margulies at the Elgin Arts Showcase, Fridays through Sundays September 29-30, October 1, 6-8, 2023.   Friday and Saturday performances are at 7:30 PM and Sunday…

“CAMILLE” by Alexandre Dumas fils, the Greatest Dramatic Love Story

“CAMILLE” by Alexandre Dumas fils, the Greatest Dramatic Love Story

INDEPENDENT PLAYERS opened its 2022-2023 Season in September with TWO ROOMS, a very serious political drama concerning the kidnapping of Americans by terrorists in Beirut by the contemporary American playwright Lee Blessing. In March, IP is presenting what it considers the perfect antidote–Camille (“The Lady of the Camillias”) by the…

TWO ROOMS

TWO ROOMS

INDEPENDENT PLAYERS presents Lee Blessing’s TWO ROOMS The wife of an American kidnapped by Hezbollah in Beirut in the 1980s struggles to get him freed.  With no help or commitment from her own government, she returns home and forges an imaginary link with him in the room she presumes he…