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Over Our Head Players announces the 2009 Snowdance 10 Minute Comedy Festival, a competition of original comedies. The first 16 performances, January 30 – February 20, are at Sixth Street Theatre, 318 Sixth Street, Downtown Racine. The final three performances on February 21 and 22 are at Memorial Hall, 72 Seventh Street, Racine. Snowdance runs weekends January 30 - February 22 and Wednesdays February 4, 11, and 18. Wednesdays are at 7:00, Fridays are at 8:00, Saturdays are at 5:30 and 8:00, and Sunday matinees are at 2:30. Reservations are available through the box office, (262)632-6802. Tickets are $15 on Fridays and Saturdays and $12 on Sundays and Wednesdays.
Ten original short comedies, chosen from 240 entrants from around the world, comprise Racine’s Snowdance Comedy Festival. In the ultimate interactive experience, the audience votes on who wins the cash prize. Utah has Sundance; Racine has Snowdance!

by Kate Falluca

Laurene Dolan directed the Lakeside Players in “Romance in D”, “Sleeping Beauty and the Beast”, and she will be directing them in the upcoming production of “The Vagina Monologues”.

“The Vagina Monologues” introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices. A six-year-old girl, a septuagenarian New Yorker, a vagina workshop participant, a woman who witnesses the birth of her granddaughter, a Bosnian survivor of rape, and a feminist happy to have found a man who “liked to look at it”. Continue reading →

by Joe Barr

Actors, musicians, crew, and director, everyone really likes this play. It is Golliwhoppers, the last of the very successful Children’s Series this season at the Rhode. There is energy, enthusiasm, and laughter in their work. The only problem for this play will be figuring out who is having the most fun, the performers or the audience.
Check it out, and tell us, please, what you think.
And be sure to show up early.

Click HERE for more pictures, courtesy of Joe Barr

by Flora B. Atkins
recommended for ages 4 & up

GOLLIWHOPPERS is a wonderful retelling of four “tall tales”–The tales thread through our American heritage from the outrageous comic story, Big Jesse Febold Ebenezer Chopalong, to the mythic Native American legend of The Sun Snatchers, a hilarious Appalachian tale of greed, Goll-Golli-Gee and a deep southern romp about the tiny little Knee-High Man. All four tales are told through dialogue, mime, ballad, dance, and puppetry. Continue reading →