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Up Next: Dancing About Architecture: A Live Reading of Playing By Heart

Ghostlight Ensemble presents the next installment of its live movie readings with Dancing About Architecture: A Live Reading of Playing By Heart on Thursday, April 24, 2024.

Join us at 7 p.m. at Black Eagle Club (1938 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613), as we take a martini in each hand and toast to the new us!

Playing By Heart is a 1998 American comedy-drama film which tells the story of several seemingly unconnected characters in Los Angeles. Among the characters are an older couple, who are about to renew their wedding vows; a theatre director and architect navigating a new beginning; a young woman looking for a good time; a gay man dying of AIDS and his mother who had not been close; a couple having an affair and her husband who is exploring ways to break through the staleness of their marriage. It has an all-star cast of Gillian Anderson, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Connery, Anthony Edwards, Angelina Jolie, Ryan Phillippe, Dennis Quaid, Gena Rowlands, Jon Stewart and Madeleine Stowe.

The live reading is directed by Christine Marie.

There is a suggested donation of $5 at the door, which will help Ghostlight fund its upcoming season.

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We love live theatre, but we also love movies. So we combine our love for both into an ongoing live reading of some of our favorite films. But now we want to read some of YOUR favorite films.

We’re setting our 2020 Live Movie Reading Series lineup and taking votes (and suggestions) on Facebook to see what our audiences would like to see. Make your voice heard! The current poll pits Ghostbusters against Legally Blonde, but there will be a new one each week in September. Keep checking back — and encourage your friends to vote too!