Noises Off will kick off the milestone 20th anniversary season for this award winning theatre. The uproarious comedy will run at Theatre at the Center, 1040 Ridge Road, Munster, Indiana, Feb 18 through March 21. The story follows the on and off stage antics of an inept acting troupe as they stumble from bumbling dress rehearsal to disastrous closing night. Everything that can go wrong does, as actors desperately try to hang on to their lines, their performances, and the furniture. Noises Off is directed by Theatre at the Center Artistic Director William Pullinsi, who is considered by many to be a master of directing the farce. He has directed dozens of farces including last season’s smash hit LEADING LADIES. The cast consists of a “dream team” of Chicagoland’s favorite comedic actors including Marilynn Bogetich as “Dotty Otley”, Dale Benson as “Selsdon Mowbray”, Will Clinger as “Lloyd Dallas”, Jeff Cummings as “Garry Lejune”, Clay Sanderson as “Frederick Fellowes”, Laura Leonardo Ownby as “Belinda Blair”, Anna Hammonds as “Poppy Norton-Taylor”, Jason Wroblewski as “Tim Allgood” and Laura E. Taylor as “Brooke Ashton”. “The Funniest Farce Ever Written” is how the New York critics described the awesome hilarity and mind-boggling mayhem of Noises Off. It follows a troupe of has-been, never-was, and wanna-be actors led by a somewhat pretentious and strained-to-the-breaking-point director. They are touring in a typical English bedroom farce called Nothing On through the hinterlands of the outer regions of Britain (the equivalent off Off OFF Broadway in America). As the show progresses from one town to the next, the little romances, intrigues, and foibles of the cast begin to wear on them until, by the time they arrive in the last town, all semblance of the play that they were rehearsing has vanished into the mayhem of their personal and professional vendettas. Shoelaces are tied together, plates of sardines are dumped on heads, alcohol is consumed in quantity, and sexual peccadilloes and dalliances are revealed both onstage and off.