Is He Dead? Opens Thursday

Redlands Footlighters is always looking for new plays to present to their audience and their next production, Is He Dead?, fits that bill. While first produced for Broadway in 2007, the comedy was actually written more than a hundred years ago by much-beloved humorist Mark Twain. Well known for his stories, Twain wrote his only play, Is He Dead?, in 1898 after finding himself bankrupt and owing to several creditors. He traveled to Europe to earn money lecturing, during which time his youngest daughter died […]

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Audition information: Is He Dead? January 13 and 14

Redlands Footlighters will hold auditions for the side-splitting romp Is He Dead?, directed by Carol Damgen, on Monday, January 13, and Tuesday, January 14, at 7:00pm. Footlighters is located at 1810 Barton Road in Redlands. Cold Readings from the script Seeking 4 Females and 7 males, ages 18-60+ Performances: March 6-23, 2014 Pulitzer-winning playwright David Ives brings new life to Mark Twain’s comic masterpiece: Jean-Francois Millet, a young painter of genius, is in love with Marie Leroux but in debt to a villainous picture-dealer, Bastien Andre. Andre forecloses […]

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