{"id":178,"date":"2024-02-25T21:27:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2024-02-25T21:27:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T21:27:09","slug":"the-celebration-of-chicago-storefront-theatre-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/25\/the-celebration-of-chicago-storefront-theatre-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Celebration of Chicago Storefront Theatre Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-118\" src=\"http:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GiveMyRegardsToNowhere_DIGITAL-scaled-e1675284362443-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Give My Regards to Nowhere book cover\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GiveMyRegardsToNowhere_DIGITAL-scaled-e1675284362443-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GiveMyRegardsToNowhere_DIGITAL-scaled-e1675284362443.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/>Not all of us are attending and performing live theatre like we used to. The good news is that the second Dwayne Finnegan novel will soon take us back to the storefront theatre scene. Readers and critics have been loving the first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0BSB6BLBR\"><em>Give My Regards to Nowhere<\/em><\/a>, for the hilarious and heart-felt journey into theatre life. To get ready for the second, <em>Romeo and Juliet Keep Their Eyes on the Prize<\/em>, you can get <em>Give My Regards<\/em> free from February 26th through February 29th. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0BSB6BLBR\">Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Help Us Out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Polarity Ensemble Books has limited marketing dollars. Leaving even a short review of <em>Give My Regards to Nowhere<\/em> on Amazon would be a huge help. If you already bought the book elsewhere, getting a free copy on Amazon now will allow you to leave a review. And tell your friends about the book!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-180\" src=\"http:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RomeoAndJuliet_COVER-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RomeoAndJuliet_COVER-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RomeoAndJuliet_COVER-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RomeoAndJuliet_COVER-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RomeoAndJuliet_COVER-994x1536.jpg 994w, https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RomeoAndJuliet_COVER-1325x2048.jpg 1325w, https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/RomeoAndJuliet_COVER-scaled.jpg 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><strong>About <em>Romeo and Juliet Keep Their Eyes on the Prize (on sale March 22nd)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chicago director Dwayne Finnegan has another crack at the big time\u2014if only his production of <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em> can shine. However, Dwayne shares rehearsal space with a cult that takes trips on LSD-like ayahuasca and believes Dwayne\u2019s production is evil. The cult sabotages him. His actors rebel. His publicist gets entangled with a loan shark. Bones are broken, the production drops into chaos, Dwayne\u2019s marriage hangs by a thread, but despite it all, the show must go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all of us are attending and performing live theatre like we used to. The good news is that the second Dwayne Finnegan novel will soon take us back to the storefront theatre scene. Readers and critics have been loving the first book, Give My Regards to Nowhere, for the hilarious and heart-felt journey into &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/25\/the-celebration-of-chicago-storefront-theatre-continues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Celebration of Chicago Storefront Theatre Continues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardengling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}