The 2nd Act Players will host first their improv fund-raiser starting at 9 p.m. on Aug. 20 at Little Ricky’s Rib Joint, 540 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka. Featured improv groups will include Wizards & Oz and Snow, along with the 2nd Act Players Improv Wing.
All three groups wowed the crowds at the 2015 Piven Theatre improv showcase this past February. Each group will do a 10-minute lightening round of improv and then, after a short fund-raising pause, will do it again, with no two skits ever the same.
There will be no cover charge or admission for the event. Donations will be accepted, and are also being taking at the website: evanston2ndactplayers.com.
“Every non-profit I know of is always asking for money. We want to be different, we want to give our audiences fantastic entertainment in return for their contributions to our burgeoning theater company,” says 2nd Act Players creative director and cofounder John N. Frank.
Donations will go to fund this year’s 2nd Act Players season which will consist of two-act play, “Boys in the Basement,” by Frank, about divorced men and their shattered dreams, to be staged in November. The second play of the season will be “Remembrance,” by Chicago-area author ArLynn Lieber, is about those we have loved and lost but will always remember. “Remembrance” will be staged in January. Performances for both shows at the Piven Theatre in Evanston.
