Homewood Planning and Zoning Commission will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, in village hall, 2020 Chestnut Road. The agenda is available here. The livestream of the meeting can be viewed here. Use ID 991 8481 1606, passcode 573812. The commission will consider a special use permit for multiple-family residence with 18 units at 18240[Read More…]
Tag: Drama Group
Drama Group will perform ‘The Addams Family’ musical in October
Your daughter has invited her boyfriend’s family for dinner. What can go wrong? There’s plenty of entertainment on hand when guests of The Drama Group are part of the dinner party in the hit musical “The Addams Family.” America’s kooky, spooky Addams Family, recognized by many through the television series,[Read More…]
Drama Group to present ‘Clue’ opening June 9
The Drama Group will continue its 91st season with the cult-fan-mystery-murder “Clue on Stage” directed by Jim LaPietra and populated with the list of usual suspects. Show times are 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 9, 10, 15, 16 and 17; at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 11 and 18. Tickets can[Read More…]
‘Violet’ musical being staged by The Drama Group
The Drama Group will present the moving story “Violet,” a musical being staged over two weekends starting Friday, April 28. Violet is a young woman who has facial disfigurement. She embarks on a journey from her farm community in North Carolina by Greyhound bus to Tulsa believing a televangelist there[Read More…]
Drama Group will present “Steel Magnolias” over two weekends in February
The Drama Group will stage “Steel Magnolias,” a comedy about friends who meet each Saturday at the beauty salon, during mid-February. This play is set in Chinaquapin, Louisiana, and focuses on discussions of the ladies in town who come for standing appointments with salon owner Truvvy Jones and her assistant,[Read More…]
Drama Group’s ‘Leading Ladies’ comedy in August
The screwball comedy “Leading Ladies” is the August production at The Drama Group in Chicago Heights. Set in Pennsylvania in 1958, a pair of down-and-out itinerate English Shakespearean actors decide to fake their identities. They become long-lost cousins to a wealthy family in an effort to swindle an inheritance. The[Read More…]
Local actresses on stage for next Drama Group production
Mary Page Marlowe at age 69 (Suzanne Ashlock of Homewood, seated) is comforted by her nurse Mary (Caroline Herrera) in this scene from “Mary Page Marlowe.” (Provided photo) Residents of Homewood and Flossmoor will be appearing on stage when The Drama Group presents “Mary Page Marlowe” over two February weekends.[Read More…]
Drama Group presents ‘In the Heights’ musical Aug. 2-11
The Drama Group will present the musical “In the Heights” as its final production of the 88th season. The show will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 2, 3, 8, 9 and 10 and 2 p.m. Aug. 4 and 11, at The Drama Group’s Studio Theatre at 350 W.[Read More…]
Drama Group’s new season kicks off with ‘Sister Act’ Oct. 12
As the song says, there’s “something for everyone” during 2018-2019 season of The Drama Group, a mainstay of the south suburban theater scene for 88 years. That classic melody that opens “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” – one of the ensemble’s offerings this year[Read More…]
Drama Group’s musical ‘A New Brain’ is presented in March
Scott Sowinski of Flossmoor plays the lead role in The Drama Group’s staging of “A New Brain.” (Provided photo) Scott Sowinski of Flossmoor will portray the lead character in The Drama Group’s presentation of the musical ‘A New Brain’ over two weekends in March. Performances are at the Drama Group’s[Read More…]