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33 www.pdop.org Theatre Camps Check out the one-week camps for kids by Oak Park Festival Theatre on page 73. Oak Park Festival Theatre Oak Park Festival eatre is the Midwest's oldest professional (Actors' Equity Association) classical outdoor theater. Currently celebrating its 44th year, Festival eatre's summer productions of Shakespeare and other theatre masters are staged in idyllic Austin Gardens in the heart of downtown Oak Park. Season 2018 TICKETS $32 | Seniors $27 | Students $15 Children under 12 & dogs free Preview: $10 Tickets available at oakparkfestival.com or by visiting the Oak Park Visitors Center at 1010 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL (888-OAK-PARK) Questions? Call our Box Office at 708-300-9396. YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU By Kaufman and Hart Directed by Jason Gerace June 14 - July 22 ursday-Saturday at 8:00P • Sunday at 7:00P Welcome to the Sycamore household, a merry mélange of free-thinkers, eccentrics, odd-balls, and lovable others. Come in. Sit down. Don't mind the snakes, the fireworks, the less than Bolshoi ballet performances, the typewriter, the general absence of any orthodoxy. And meet Alice, the sweet natured and sanest of this family who has fallen in love with the son of her oh-so-conventional boss. Stay for the hilarity when the prospective in-laws arrive for to dinner to give their blessing to the marriage – on the wrong night – and encounter Alice's peculiar extended family in all their glory. Can these two polar opposite families find common ground? It is madcap 1930's comedy at its very best – but with eternal and urgently timeless message of accepting and embracing life - your own and everyone else's. 1st Preview, June 14 at 8:00P 2nd Preview, June 15 at 8:00P - (Community Appreciation night, free admission) Opening Night, Saturday, June 16 at 8:00P THE AFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III By Carlyle Brown Directed by Ron OJ Parson July 28 - September 1 ursday-Saturday at 8:00P • Sunday at 7:00P PLUS Wednesday, August 29 at 8:00P Forty years before the Civil War, a little know war took place in Manhattan, NY. is war was battled not on a field, but on a stage by a group of Black actors performing the words of a dead White poet. When the sun rises, these actors put on masks, playing the parts of maids and waiters that society has cast them in. But when the sun goes down, this groups of artists finds their voice along with their feelings as they discover themselves in Shakespeare's poetry. And they are not alone, their production of RICHARD III performs with such artistry and passion it attracts white and black audiences alike, is critically acclaimed, and has the theatre filled to overflowing six days a week. at is, until a prominent white company rents the theatre next door to open their own production of Richard – determined to shut down the African company's show at any cost. Previews, July 28, July 29, August 1, August 2 (Community Appreciation night, free admission) Opening Night, Friday, August 3 at 8:00P Held in Austin Gardens, 167 Forest Avenue, Oak Park IL 60301 Special Events Sponsored by: Get ready to visit your local parks this summer by participating in our second Parks Passport! Complete missions and win prizes including a Red Mango cup of frozen yogurt with your choice of toppings. One passport redemption per student please. Contest begins June 2, 2018 and ends August 22, 2018. Best for children ages 5-13. Find your Parks Passport at the Oak Park Public Library, at the Ridgeland Common Recreation Complex and the Gymnastics Recreation Center. #ActivateOakPark #pdopPassport In collaboration with: Parks Passport Look, learn and explore--outside your front door.