Iowa City Theatre

• Dreamwell announces auditions for Poona

  Dreamwell - Dreamwell Theatre will hold auditions for Jeff Goode’s Poona the F**kdog.. and other plays for children on Saturday and Sunday, December 12th and 13th at 1:00 pm at the Iowa City Public Library. Copies of the script will be on reserve on the second floor of the library.
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:08pm EST
  

• Dreamwell announces 2010 season

  Dreamwell - Dreamwell Theatre again offers a season centered around a particular theme. Its 13th season - "Taboo Bijou" - features works intended to raise questions about topics considered "taboo" and why. From language to terrorism to various expressions of sexuality, the plays push boundaries and limits by confronting subjects [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:15pm EST
  

• 2010 Riverside Shakespare shows set

  Riverside – Riverside Theatre is proud to announce the plays that will be featured in the 11th annual Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival: Romeo and Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost. Both shows will run in rotation from June 11 through July 11, 2010 at the Riverside Festival Stage in Iowa City’s [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:49am EST
  

• Wonderful Town needs men

  ICCT - The Iowa City Community Theatre's upcoming production of the musical Wonderful Town needs more men. The first round of auditions occurred last night and while they had plenty of women auditioning, there was a lack of men. The second round of auditions is this evening at 7 pm [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:16am EST
  

• Neil Diamond Tribute comes to Amana

  Old Creamery - The award winning Neil Diamond Tribute, from Branson, MO will play at the Old Creamery Theater in Amana, IA on Wednesday December 23rd. This 70 minute nonstop show tells the story of Neil’s life through his own songs. Starring look and sound alike Keith Allynn, known to [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 8:21pm EST
  

• Old Creamery offers holiday show for kids

  Old Creamery – Laughter and holiday music abound in The Old Creamery Theatre Company’s Theatre For Young Audiences production of A Partridge in A Pear Tree, opening December 5th at 11 a.m. on the main stage in Amana.
  
  Directed by The Old Creamery’s Artistic Director Sean McCall, the show [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 1:05pm EST
  

• ICCT Board vows to keep theatre going

  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 [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:40am EST
  

• Honky Tonk Angels in Amana

  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.
  
  From Ted Swindley, the [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:04pm EST
  

• Get into the Holiday Spirit with All Wrapped Up

  By Meghan D'Souza
  
  ITAC - I walked into All Wrapped Up For Christmas feeling very much like a scrooge. Thanksgiving is days away and I forgot that Halloween has already passed. This means Christmas is around the corner and I didn't think I was ready to hear a single [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:18am EST
  

• Annie at TCR? Of course, it's good!

  by Sharon Falduto
  
  To be honest, I almost feel guilty writing a review of this show. I feel as though I could write “It was Annie at TCR! Of course it’s going to be good!”
  
  But Spartan reviews are not what draws you back to [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 9:17am EST
  

• Walking the Wire impresses

  by Angie Toomsen
  
  Riverside - This past weekend I attended Riverside Theatre’s 11th Annual Walking the Wire monologue show. If there was another performance to follow this review, my unequivocal recommendation would be: “don’t miss this.” As it were, “don’t miss this NEXT year” will have to suffice.
  
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:04am EST
  

• Holiday Tales at Riverside

  Riverside - Riverside Theatre will host its 11th annual weekend of monologues, Walking the Wire: Holiday Tales November 19-22.
  
  Walking the Wire: Holiday Tales is directed by Ron Clark and features twelve original monologues. As each piece is performed by a single actor who speaks directly to the [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:06pm EST
  

• Backstage with Annie

  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!
  
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:58pm EST
  

• ITAC is All Wrapped Up

  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 [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:02pm EST
  

• TCR's Annie opens this weekend

  TCR - Theatre Cedar Rapids audiences are no strangers to the musical Annie. It’s a longtime favorite and audiences have been clamoring for it to return to their stage — which is exactly what it will do beginning Nov. 20, when Annie opens at TCR Lindale.
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:47pm EST
  

• ICCT membership meeting scheduled

  ICCT - Due to a petition started by a member of the Iowa City Community Theatre, a special membership meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 23rd at 7 PM in Meeting Room B at the Robert A Lee Recreation Center. This is the second attempt ICCT has made to schedule [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:39am EST
  

• Actors shine in Dreamwell's Playboy

  by James Trainor
  
  In the county of Mayo on the western coast of Ireland, there's not much to talk about. Once in a while there's a wedding or a wake, but for the most part the simple folk of Mayo are thirsty for a good story. So it's fortunate' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:08am EST
  

• Weekend Round Up

  It's your last chance to see From the Homefront and Shady Business. Reviews are here and here.
  
  And opening this weekend is Dreamwell's Playboy of the Western World. The DI has a nice article and here's our preview.' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:08pm EST
  

• A Review of Rocky Horror

  
  By Sarah Jarmon
  
  CSPS - Rocky Horror is the kind of cult classic that die hard followers can feel comfortable coming home to, so it seemed an odd choice to start the show off with an unfamiliar, albeit hauntingly beautiful, rendition of “Science Fiction.” [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:42pm EST
  

• SPT conjures a spirit of fun

  by Vicki Krajewski
  
  SPT Theatre - An Elizabethan couple chatters away as several long-haired hippies squint behind pink-tinted John Lennon glasses. Meanwhile, a half-hearted vampire scans the crowd for fresh blood while a lonely Goth with a face full of piercings ponders volunteering to be the next meal. Heads [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:25pm EST
  

• Dreamwell ends "Season of Inciting Theatre"

  Dreamwell - Concluding its "Season of Inciting Theatre," Dreamwell Theatre presents Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge on November 13, 14, 20, and 21 with all performances at 7:30 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Society (at Iowa Avenue and Gilbert Street). Directed by Rich Riggleman and assistant directed [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

• Tonight only - free reading at Riverside

  Riverside - Riverside Theatre will host a reading of Militant Language: A Play With Sand, by Sean Christopher Lewis on Wednesday, November 4 at 7:00 p.m. at Riverside Theatre, 213 N. Gilbert Street. This one night only event is free and open to the public.
  
  Set in a remote [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:53pm EST