It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Fri Nov 20
Live radio play
Drama Film
Dear Jack, Dear Louise
Every day from Feb. 12 to Mar. 21, closed on Mondays
Glenview
🍪"free homemade cookies" from a bakery down the road
💛"the staff are the heart of Oil Lamp"
💺Tiny room, roughly 10 rows of 6: every seat feels close
A wartime romance told entirely through handwritten letters. Set in 1942, this tender two-hander follows a love that blooms against the odds, performed in one of the coziest little theaters around.
WWII romance
Intimate theater
Epistolary drama
Cozy venue
Friday, February 12
Drama Film
Dear Jack, Dear Louise
Every day from Feb. 12 to Mar. 21, closed on Mondays
Glenview
🍪"free homemade cookies" from a bakery down the road
💛"the staff are the heart of Oil Lamp"
💺Tiny room, roughly 10 rows of 6: every seat feels close
A wartime romance told entirely through handwritten letters. Set in 1942, this tender two-hander follows a love that blooms against the odds, performed in one of the coziest little theaters around.
WWII romance
Intimate theater
Epistolary drama
Cozy venue
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- WWII romance
- Intimate theater
- Epistolary drama
- Cozy venue
- Oil Lamp Theater
- Glenview
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