Skokie Man Helps Start New Theatre in Michigan

A Skokie theater executive director and a New Trier native are starting a theater from scratch with the Three Oaks Theatre Festival.

Posted Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:18 am CT|Updated Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:22 am CT

Two North Shore men are helping to start a new theater from scratch with the Three Oaks Theatre Festival, which debuts this summer at the 250-seat Acorn Theatre in Michigan’s Harbor Country about 90 minutes away from Chicago, Skokie Review reported.

Tim Evans, executive director of Skokie’s Northlight Theatre, and John Stoops, who grew up in Wilmette and Kenilworth and trained at Second City, are working with longtime stage and screen veteran Marc Grapey to put together a season that spotlights some of the region’s most respected and critically acclaimed artists, such as the production of The Selfish Giant, featuring puppet theater master Blair Thomas and singer-songwriter Michael Smith, the newspaper reported.

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