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Theater Review: ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ from Coralville’s City Circle Theatre Company

Before now, I wasn’t familiar with the 1992 Tony award winner for best play, Dancing at Lughnasa, or its playwright Brian Friel, who has been called “Ireland’s Chekhov.” I also must admit that I’ve attended Coralville’s Center for the Performing […]

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Forty years ago, volunteers pulled off the first Iowa Arts Festival. Summer in Iowa City has never been the same

What started 40 years ago as a volunteer-led labor of love is now a downtown Iowa City institution: the Iowa Arts Festival. Back in the summer of 1983, Joyce Carroll and Kristin Summerwill helped organize a multi-day event on the […]

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Set and staged in Iowa City, Riverside’s two-woman play ‘The Roommate’ explores the desire to burn it all down and start over

Though the play takes place in Iowa City, and was written by an alumnus of the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, this marks the first time The Roommate has been staged in Iowa City, according to Adam Knight. “I knew […]

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The Iowa Pop Art Fest brings music and more artists Saturday in Cedar Rapids for its third year

The Iowa Pop Art Festival returns to Cedar Rapids this Saturday for its third and biggest year yet. Not only is this year’s showcase of Iowa visual artists presenting more artists than previous years (over 120), live music will be […]

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Psychedelic legends Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. are touching down in Iowa City

If you ask a random stranger on the street about psychedelic music, they might name Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, or mumble something about sitars, samplers and LSD. “Psychedelic” is often regarded as a trippy, hippie, countercultural vibe—a phase music went […]

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Weekender Eastern Iowa! Floodwater Comedy Festival | Taste of Jazz 2023 | Support Trans Youth Showcase

READ THE LATEST | SUPPORT LITTLE VILLAGE | SHOP PERKS THE WEEKENDER Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium This weekend’s all about the local, the indie and the weird. Head over to the Floodwater Comedy Festival to support local and visiting comics as well as […]

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