John Reeger News Today

Peninsula Players Theatre has announced the cast for the first play reading of The Play's the Thing, a winter play reading series presented to Door County audiences.  

Admission is free to "The Plays the Thing," which opens Feb. 6 with "Painted Desert" by Christopher G. Smith as part of the Door County Reads program.

Tony Award winners Jessie Mueller (Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, Waitress, The Minutes) and James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Hamilton, Freestyle Love Supreme), lead the brand-new studio cast recording of the beloved holiday musical, THE CHRISTMAS SCHOONER, now available on all major digital music platforms.

Paramount Theatre delivers the gift of gags courtesy of The Second City, while Steppenwolf premieres a new comedy and Evanstons Theo Ubique revives "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," this week in Chicago-area theater.