Previews: Chicago Theaters Schedule New Works and Classics for Streamed Performances
Pandemic Stories will be full video productions, with actors "offbook," in costume and using props. The company uses video editing to give the illusion actors are in the same space when they are actually recorded separately.
Tickets for the shows are $20; they will go on sale on the 2nd Act Players’ website, starting April 3.
The seven plays and their playwrights are:
Lunch Lady by Donna Latham; Second Acts,
Second Helpings by John Mabey;
What Good Did We See Today? by Cathrine Goldstein;
Love in the Time of Covid-19 by Germaine Shames;
[Brackets] by Craig Gustafson;
The Birds Are Feeding Me by Rex McGregor;
To the Zoom and Back by Cindi Sansone-Braff.Nancy S Bishop
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