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 up one morning in an …
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 gangs stalked the streets looking …
## 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. Audiences may be familiar with …
“THE WALTZ OF THE TOREADORS” by JEAN Marie Lucien Pierre ANOUILH – Cancelled Read More »
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 performances are at 2:00 PM. …
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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 19th Century French playwright Alexandre …
“CAMILLE” by Alexandre Dumas fils, the Greatest Dramatic Love Story Read More »
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 is being kept. Independent Players …
What happens when an unlucky nobody is mistaken for a powerful Russian government official by a group of corrupt small town officials? Find out when INDEPENDENT PLAYERS presents Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector Fridays and Saturdays, April 22-23, 29-30, May 6-7, 2022 at the Elgin Art Showcase, 164 Division Street, Elgin. Curtain time is 7:30 PM. Originally …
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Because Waiting for Godot is a stunning example of “theater of the absurd,” and because this is the first “absurdist” play Independent Players has produced—other than Eugene Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano, which it produced in 2015 at the Elgin Fringe Festival—we thought it might be helpful to explain what Absurdism is and why playwrights …
WELCOME BACK to INDEPENDENT PLAYERS!! When our production of The Government Inspector was suddenly shut down on March 12, 2020, we thought that in May, or maybe as late as September, we would be back on stage. Optimistically, we hoped to resurrect TGI in March, 2022. Before that however, we are producing Waiting for …
*Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the cdc has requested we cancel our shows for the time being * What happens when an unlucky nobody is mistaken for a powerful Russian government official by a group of corrupt small town officials? Find out when INDEPENDENT PLAYERS presents Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector Fridays and Saturdays, March …
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