Winner of two 2008 Tony Awards and the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy of 2007, author Patrick Barlow's slapstick thriller The 39 Steps enjoys a June 15 through 25 run at Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse, the show's creative team and four-person cast sure to demonstrate why the New York Times called this Alfred Hitchcock celebration/spoof an “indomitably funny” comedy of “virtuosic clowning.”

One of William Shakespeare's most delightful and adored comedy classics will enjoy a professional Riverside Theatre staging this summer when the Iowa City company, from June 16 through July 2, presents the romantic and hilarious Twelfth Night in a bucolic outdoor staging at Iowa City's Lower City Park.

In describing their latest Johnny-and-Fungus adventure, the comedy Funkyology, Haus of Ruckus co-founder T Green says that the show “is sort of like our homage to Indiana Jones, The Goonies, Lara Croft, and National Treasure, with sprinklings of Legends of the Hidden Temple.” But in case you were wondering whether Green's latest stage endeavor alongside Ruckus co-founder Calvin Vo was timed to coincide with the big-screen Indiana Jones & the Dial of Destiny opening at the month's end, Vo has a simple answer for you: “No.”

When it first debuted on Broadway under the title SpongeBob SquarePants, the show went on to receive 12 Tony nominations, though it won only one. The Spotlight Theatre’s production, helmed by Noah Hill, largely fits that same mold, with a lot of great work coming through. But things didn’t gel as much as I hoped they would.