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Pop-Up Players to perform ‘My Favorite Wife’ in Streator, Ottawa, La Salle

All performances are free

Reddick Library in Ottawa

The Pop-Up Players, a nonprofit traveling community theater troupe based in the Illinois Valley, will be staging three performances of an all new radio play adaptation (with retro commercials and live sound effects) of the classic, 1940 “screwball” comedy “My Favorite Wife.”

This presentation has been adapted and expanded from the public domain, Lux Radio Theatre broadcast.

All performances are free admission.

They are scheduled 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at The 122 Club, 122 N. Park St., Streator; 2 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at Reddick Public Library, 1010 Canal St., Ottawa; and 7:30 p.m. Friday, May, 2, at Speakeasy on 1st, 854 First St., La Salle.

Derek Barichello

Derek Barichello

Derek Barichello is the news editor for The Times in Ottawa and NewsTribune in La Salle, part of Shaw Local News Network, covering La Salle, Bureau and Putnam counties. He covers local and breaking news in the areas of government, education, business and crime and courts, among others.