edited by: Art Smith,
Iowa Editor
ICCT - At a sometimes somber, sometimes energized meeting Monday night, the Iowa City Community Theatre Board informed its members they were in bad financial shape, but vowed to regroup and make the theatre solvent again. At the public meeting, Treasurer David Roe informed the members [...] 
Old Creamery – The Old Creamery Theatre kicked off the holiday season with an all-new show full of laughter and music. The Honky Tonk Angels Holiday Spectacular is playing now on the main stage in Amana and runs through December 20th.
by Sharon Falduto
TCR - You have to check out this video of Jonathan Swenson getting his head shaved so he can play Daddy Warbucks in Annie. Then check out Annie this weekend!
ITAC - The Iowa Theatre Artists Company opens their first holiday production in their new Amana home (the former Barn Restaurant) on Thursday, November 19. This original play with music written by Tom Johnson and the ITAC Ensemble will have a three week run over a [...] 
It's your last chance to see From the Homefront and Shady Business. Reviews are here and here. 
by Meghan D'Souza
CSPS and Riff Raff Theatre - Black leather corset: Check. Fishnet stockings: Check. Transvestites from another planet: Check.
Old Creamery - The Old Creamery Theatre Company is pleased to announce that Sean McCall has recently been named Artistic Director. McCall has been with The Old Creamery for the last 17 years and has been Interim Artistic Director since June of 2009. Prior to that, he [...] 
Old Creamery – There is definitely some Shady Business going on at The Old Creamery Theatre Company this fall and showgirls Mandy and Tania find themselves in the middle of it all.
TCR - Romance, rock music and Czech history will all be on display when Theatre Cedar Rapids presents Rock ‘N’ Roll, the award-winning play by Tom Stoppard, beginning Friday and continuing through Oct. 25.
ICCT - It's life as usual at Enrico Fermi High School. The students are preparing for the annual Nuclear Fair in honor of their namesake (the father of the atomic bomb), and the opening number is interrupted by an air raid siren, but this is nothing new.' [...] by James Trainor
Dreamwell - Onstage at Dreamwell Theatre is Master Harold…and the Boys. Written by Athol Fugard and originally produced in 1982, the play takes place in apartheid South Africa. It involves Hally, a bright young student, and the servants in his mother’s tea room. The tea room is [...]
by Matthew Falduto
Old Creamery – Come watch as straw gets spun into gold for a greedy king and a magical gnome with an unusual name comes to the rescue in a classic fairy tale with a unique retelling.Dreamwell - When Dreamwell Theatre decided on this season’s theme and began casting about for “inciting theatre,” Rachel [...]
ITAC - The Iowa Theatre Artists Company in Amana will present Foxfire by Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn beginning this weekend. A tribute to the preservation of Appalachian heritage, Foxfire is the story of Annie Nations, a woman fighting to save her mountain farm from a [...] 
Old Creamery – It’s the coldest day of the year in Bunyan Bay, Minnesota when a slick Karaoke saleman slides into town and turns life upside down in The Old Creamery Theatre Company’s production of Don’t Hug Me, which opened September 10th and runs through October 11th. [...] 
Riverside - Riverside Theatre will open the season this weekend with A Dog’s Life, with book and lyrics by Sean Grennan and music by Leah Okimoto. It runs September 11 – October 4. 
ICCT - What if four children, two boys and two girls, were raised in complete isolation since birth? What would happen when they first meet each other? How would these young lovers, reared in a secluded garden, respond to the first words, the first kisses, and [...] 
City Circle - Check out Rent at the Englert tonight. Looks like those kids are working hard to create a great show.
City Circle - The 2009-10 City Circle season begins with an ambitious undertaking as present Rent: School Edition at the Englert Theatre Friday and Saturday, August 7 and 8, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, August 9, 2 p.m.
Old Creamery - The music of Disney comes to life August 6 when The Old Creamery Theatre Company opens I’m All Ears: Songs of Disney, at 3 p.m. on the main stage in Amana. With over 60 years of music to choose from, this celebration of [...] 
The Iowa Theatre Blog will be on hiatus for the month of July. We'll be back in August.' [...] 
by Angie Toomsen
There's a lot of great theatre available this weekend. Two very different musicals are opening. Beginning tonight, fans of the Disney movie High School Musical can see the stage version at TCR's Lindale space. For a look behind the scenes, check out [...] 
Dreamwell - Dreamwell Theatre will present The Drag, a play written in the 1920's by screen legend and sex symbol Mae West. The Drag tells the story of Rolly Kingsbury—a judge’s son and heir to the family ironworks business—whose marriage is crumbling around the secret of' [...] 
by Sharon Falduto
Riverside - The 10th annual Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival opens this weekend with a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. (Richard III opens June 19th.)
TCR - Theatre Cedar Rapids is putting on their spring production of Hair at a temporary location located at the parking lot Lindale Mall. Other theaters in the area could be so lucky as to claim this as a temporary location.
TCR — Janelle Lauer and Leslie Charipar love the 1960s. Even though both are too young to really remember them.
ICCT - Let’s get this out of the way, right away: I have never liked The Baker’s Wife. That’s not so much an indictment of Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein’s musical as it is a disclosure of my personal affinities, but I was also never a [...] 
ICCT - The bickering residents of a small Provencal town at last find peace and contentment in the heavenly bread of the newly arrived baker and his attractive young wife. But when she is lured away by the attentions of a handsome young gigolo, the middle-aged [...] 
Old Creamery - One of the Old Creamery’s biggest hits, it has been five years since Always…Patsy Cline delighted Old Creamery patrons. Molly Hammer and Marquetta Senters will reprise their roles as Patsy and Louise once more with songs like “Crazy,” “Sweet Dreams,” and “Walkin’ After [...] 
Old Creamery - Just in time for spring, The Old Creamery Theatre Company’s Theatre for Young Audiences, will bring The Tale of Peter Rabbit to its Main Stage in Amana, Saturday, April 11 at 1 p.m. Join Peter as he tries to escape from Mr. McGregor [...] 
Riverside - When I review a show, I’m always interested in what I overhear between the acts and around the margins. I’m not eavesdropping on who had what for dinner beforehand. I want to know: What does the audience think of the show? Perhaps this curiosity [...] 
By Meghan D'Souza
Riverside - Riverside Theatre is looking for a part time Marketing Director. More information, including salary and job duties, are 
