PressPass Festival of Plays (Nov 2019)
CAST presented THREE plays the first weekend of November, all from different time periods but still featuring a character list FULL OF REPORTERS! It was fun this year to start with the plays and a good time was had by all.
Not Fit To Print
Soup du Jour
Haymarket 8
State Fair was worth the wait! (February 2020)
CAST's production of State Fair was a smash hit with audiences laughing and cheering the Frake family on as they racked up blue ribbons and made new friends. The happy ending involving a pretty great newspaper story by the newest member of the Chicago Tribune's City Desk. Who said newspapers only spread doom and gloom? Not at CAST!
State Fair
Inherit the/Morning Post was one for the history books!
(March 2020)
CAST's all-girl production of Inherit the Wind was probably destined for the history books as another CAST first right from the beginning. But then we could not have known it would be the first CAST show ever canceled between the final dress rehearsal and opening night! Its companion piece in the studio this year was Last Night at the Morning Post, an homage to the play Front Page and the classic film His Girl Friday. It is easy to see how great these shows would have been looking at these photos of that final rehearsal.
Inherit the Wind
Last Night at the Morning Post
