Native performer John O’Connor stars on this one-person play written by Herbert Mitgang. The present depends closely on Lincoln’s personal phrases and, in line with the Hoogland Middle, “options the folksy knowledge of Lincoln’s biography and the transcendent grandeur of his nation-healing phrases as president, therapeutic that was minimize brief by an murderer’s bullet.” Mitgang is a New York Occasions reporter and writer, playwright and TV information producer. O’Connor, an Illinois political reporter for The Related Press, has portrayed the sixteenth president earlier than and is a veteran of many native theater productions. Tickets are $22 for adults and $20 for seniors over 60 and college students.
Mr. Lincoln
Fri-Sat., April 25-26, 7:30 p.m., and Solar., April 27, 4 p.m.
Hoogland Middle for the Arts, Peggy Ryder Theatre
217-523-2787
hcfta.org
