Apples in Winter, by Jennifer Fawcett, opened this weekend at Old Creamery Theatre. This is a show that everyone needs to see. The one-woman show is poignantly enacted by Marquetta Senters. From silent entrance to screaming ending, Senters brings an astounding range of emotions to life during the 90-minute show.
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Millstream gathers a wide variety of eastern Iowa cover bands for inaugural Millstock
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the notorious 1969 music festival, Woodstock, Millstream Brewing Company is hosting Millstock from June 28-30. Eight artists will be featured and, in the spirit of the original festival, camping is welcomed on festival grounds.
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Love is in the air: ‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’ delightful seasonal fare
‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’ is part of Old Creamery’s VIP (Very Intimate Performance) series which has shrunk the theater; the audience finds themselves on what is normally the stage.There is no fourth wall from the start of the play. This is an intimate show where the actors perform without amplification and interact with the audience.
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Five questions with: artist Maggie Vandewalle
Maggie Vandewalle Artist Reception Catiri’s Art Oasis — Saturday, Aug. 4 at 2 p.m. Raised just outside Iowa City, Maggie Vandewalle went to the University of Iowa on an art scholarship and has been painting ever since. Although her studies at UI were focused initially on printmaking, she fell in love with watercolors. Now, painting […]
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Kinderfest helps Noble Stone celebrate its 10-year ‘Rockiversary’
This Saturday, July 21, Amana will celebrate its third annual Kinderfest. A full day of events — many of them free — aimed at children ages 4-10 will take over downtown Amana.
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ITAC’s ‘Woody Guthrie’s American Song’ is both timely and timeless
Playing through Sept. 24, the Iowa Theatre Artists Company presentation of Woody Guthrie’s American Song (conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer) testifies to the timeless power of music to bear witness to the hopes and horrors that confront the modern world.
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Buy Me a Sword: Iowa Renaissance Festival brings the life and times of centuries past back to the Amanas
Hear ye, hear ye: The Iowa Renaissance Festival and Gathering o’ Celts will transmogrify Middle Amana Park into a historical wonderland for the next two weekends, featuring feast and potation fit for royalty, mercantile from all the sovereign lands and various performances in the courtyard, from jousting to swordfighting to the arcane arts.
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Serving up history Saturday in the Amanas
Communal Breakfast Communal Kitchen Museum — Saturday, Jan. 21 at 9 a.m. Longing for a simpler time? Get a taste of history this Saturday, Jan. 21 at the Amana Heritage Society’s Communal Kitchen Museum (1003 26th Ave.) in Middle Amana as part of the Amana Colonies’ Winterfest. Guests can observe the old wood-burning hearth in […]
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Old Creamery Theatre stages a classic comedy, ‘The Reluctant Dragon’
Since 2008, Old Creamery Theatre has been delighting kids of all ages with its Theatre for Young Audiences on its main stage in Amana…
