Get free tickets to April performances of James Barrie’s Quartets: Reading of One-Acts by Peter Pan Author at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts.

ShawChicago, billed as the premier concert reading company in North America, finishes out its 19th season with a quartet of its finest actors at the podium for a trio of lesser-known one-act plays by the famed Victorian author of the classic Peter Pan. These shorts all shine with J.M. Barrie’s humanistic take on relationships, on display in 1914’s The Twelve-Pound Look as a woman works out a way to escape a stifling marriage and in Rosalind, as an aging actress seeks to escape her most famous Shakespearean role, only to discover a good reason to stay. Finally, The New Word finds a father struggling to break through his British reserve to give an emotional goodbye to his war-bound son.