Okay, Melody. Breathe.
CAT CIRCUS!!
(Breathe.)
COMING TO IOWA CITY!!!!!!
(Breathe.)
I will be counting down till October 4 (1 week & 4 days from today!) when the RockCats and Amazing AcroCats [...]

When poet and teacher Barbara Lau began writing her first play about the transformation of the American teenager, she analyzed her knowledge of Greek mythology and found the famed goddess whose metamorphosis was one of the most terrifying and heartbreaking: Medusa.
“Just because she has a beauty-and-the-beast transformation, that’s not enough. I looked at the condition [...]

“Raising teens is more tricks than treats,” the Greek chorus chants in the new Riverside Theatre production “Raising Medusa,” written by local poet and playwright Barbara Lau of Mt. Vernon.
The production features a stellar cast with palpable chemistry. Stage and screen actress Nancy Youngblut plays the mother in the play, exasperated with her 13-year-old daughter’s [...]