The Meeting cast
West Side Theatre Guild goes on the road for Black History Month
Contributed By:The 411 News
Showcasing new stages at the Gary Public Library and Indiana University Northwest
For Black History Month in Gary, Mark Spencer, director of the West Side Theatre Guild is taking his productions on the road. Three plays, two of them free to the public, will showcase the new stages at the Gary Public Library and at Indiana University Northwest.
A third production will be at the WSTG home in West Side High School.
First up is Never the Milk and Honey, by Shepsu Aakhu and directed by Carla Stillwell.
The world was supposed to come to an end. For Alger, a man of deep faith (and his family), it did not ... perhaps for them, that actually IS the apocalypse. There are covenants that bind people together- man and woman, pastor and flock, humanity and divinity. Never the Milk and Honey explores the fallout when those covenants are broken. Can faith ever be rebuilt?
Location: West Side Theatre Guild, 900 Gerry St., Door E.
Dates: February 4 at 4 p.m. & February 5 at 7 p.m.
Cost: $10. Door sales only.
The Meeting by Jeff Stetson and directed by Mark Spencer. (Presented by MASMEDIA7)
The Meeting is fascinating and dramatically compelling, this eloquent play depicts the supposed meeting of two of the most important men of modern times: Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Differing in their philosophies, but alike in their mutual respect, the two men debate their varying approaches to the same grave social problems, both prepared to die for their beliefs but neither aware of how soon their assassins' bullets would await them.
Location: Gary Public Library-Main Branch, 220 W. 5th Ave., Gary
Dates: February 17 at 3 p.m.
Cost: Free to the Public
The Wiz Directed by Mark Spencer and Choreographed by Asia Dickens. (Presented by MASMEDIA7)
The story begins on a tumbledown farm in Kansas, but the tornado sets Dorothy and Toto down in the city of Oz. The words are jive, the songs upbeat. After celebrating the demise of the Wicked Witch of the East with the Munchkins, Dorothy departs for the Emerald City with a live yellow brick road. She encounters a hip Scarecrow who wants to join her because he has a feeling he isn't going anywhere; an uptight Tin Man who needs Dorothy's help to hang loose again, and a mama's-boy Lion who has lost faith in the psychiatric help he's been getting from an owl. Together they will seek help from the great and powerful Oz.
Location: IU Northwest Arts & Sciences Building-Theatre Northwest Main Stage, 3401 Broadway, Gary
Dates: February 22-24 at 7:30 p.m. & February 25 at 2:30 p.m.
Cost: Free to the Public. Tickets can be obtained by calling (219) 980-6596
The Meeting cast
Never The Milk and Honey cast
Story Posted:01/26/2018
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