{"id":25275,"date":"2021-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/theatre-at-tarleton-to-present-ludwig-comedy-leading-ladies\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:47:14","slug":"theatre-at-tarleton-to-present-ludwig-comedy-leading-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/theatre-at-tarleton-to-present-ludwig-comedy-leading-ladies\/","title":{"rendered":"Theatre at Tarleton to Present Ludwig Comedy &#8216;Leading Ladies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014\u00a0Theatre at Tarleton will present the Ken Ludwig farce\u00a0<em>Leading Ladies<\/em>\u00a0at 7:30 p.m.\u00a0Tuesday-Saturday, Sept. 21-26, at the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center in Stephenville.<\/p>\n<p>Set in York, Pa., in 1958, the comedy follows two down-on-their-luck\u00a0actors who read in a newspaper that an ailing woman wants to find her sister\u2019s children to include them in her multimillion-dollar will. Max and Steve, now grown, moved away to England at an early age.<\/p>\n<p>The actors decide to pose as Max and Steve to claim portions of the inheritance. When they discover that \u201cMax\u201d and \u201cSteve\u201d are actually Maxine and Stephanie, they continue on, undaunted, in drag.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 senior citizens, children, and faculty and staff, and $5 Tarleton students.\u00a0Call the Fine Arts Center box office at 254-968-9634 or 254-968-9291.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theatre at Tarleton will present the Ken Ludwig farce&nbsp;<em>Leading Ladies<\/em>&nbsp;at 7:30 p.m.&nbsp;Tuesday-Saturday, Sept. 21-26, at the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center in Stephenville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-40-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 21, 2021","modified":"Updated on September 22, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 21, 2021 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on September 22, 2025 3:47 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Two actors perform on stage, one in a blue dress, the other in a red dress.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53756,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275\/revisions\/53756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}