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Between Shifts Theatre offers a Halloween treat for all ages.

Themes of myths and magic are taking central stage at Mudlark Theater this fall, as the Evanston-based youth theater presents two world-premiere plays about legends from across the globe as well as Pinocchio and a prequel to Peter Pan, two time-honored classics that have been reimagined. Tickets for all shows are $20. 

In early April, a group of actors aged 10 to 15 began brainstorming their experiences during the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in the form of descriptive paragraphs, personal narratives and poems. These clips became what is now Mudlark Theater’s production of “I’m Smiling Beneath This Mask,” an original work devised by the...

In the spring of her junior year, ETHS student Carmiya Bady was supposed to play Velma Kelly in “Chicago” — but the pandemic closed schools before the show could begin. Countless performances, both at ETHS and Evanston’s several community theatres, were subsequently postponed, canceled, or went virtual. As summer came, with no end to COVID in sight, Tim Rhoze, Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre’s artistic director, approached Andrew Biliter, the artistic director of Mudlark Theater, with an idea. Rhoze proposed a partnership between Fleetwood-Jourdain, Mudlark and Piven Theatre Workshop tha...