“Our production is laced with the knowledge that we all have the ability to out-of-sight-out-of-mind the woes of the world,” director Rachel Howell said in an email. “We’ve tried to keep it all front and center, because we know that pretending that it doesn’t exist, or that it’s not affecting us so it’s not a concern, is toxic and keeping anyone from knowing the truth, or being unwilling to see and know the truth ourselves, can have frightening repercussions.”
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‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’ opens this weekend at The Mill
It’s not your average night out at The Mill.
Through the efforts of Rich LeMay and Luke Spurlock-Brown, working together as Run of the Mill Theater, the restaurant — most frequently used as a music and comedy venue — will see a show of another sort: its first play. Stephen Adly Guirgis’ 2005 satire ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,’ Run of the Mill’s inaugural show, opens on Friday, April 21 and runs through the weekend.
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Megan Gogerty breaks type to become more herself
Megan Gogerty knows there’s power in comedy — that what is dressed up as a bit of tomfoolery can in fact be quite conscious, insightful or even subversive. Of course, she ought to know this: She teaches the stuff. But one doesn’t expect her to state it so boldly, to give the secret away, out […]
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Missing ‘A View From the Bridge’ at Riverside Theatre will haunt you
A View From the Bridge Riverside Theatre — through Feb. 12 Every once in a great while I see a piece of theatre that reminds me why I wanted to be in theatre to begin with. The opening night performance of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge at Riverside Theatre was just such a […]
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New Iowa City company brings ‘Tender Napalm’ to Public Space One
Tender Napalm Public Space One — Friday and Saturday Jan. 20-21 at 6:30 p.m. Philip Ridley’s 2011 poetic, surreal play Tender Napalm, presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York, is the debut production of Lightswitch Theatre Company, a new addition to the vibrant Iowa City theatre community. Founded by University of […]
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‘Every Brilliant Thing’ a brilliant way to stave off the winter blues
Every Brilliant Thing Riverside Theatre — opens Saturday, Nov. 26 at 7:30 p.m. The holidays often bring a cloud of gloom with them. As the world around us begins to bundle up in layer upon layer of clothes, hang sparkling lights on homes, bake cookies and pies, it can all seem a futile attempt to […]
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Riverside Theatre welcomes the holidays with ‘Every Brilliant Thing’
Every Brilliant Thing Riverside Theatre — opens Saturday, Nov. 26 at 7:30 p.m. When you hear that a theatre is producing a “holiday show,” certain titles pop to mind: A Christmas Carol. A Christmas Story. White Christmas. Although conditioned to use the general term “holiday,” a distinct pattern tends to emerge. This year, Riverside Theatre […]
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‘The Taming’ offers up equal parts hilarity, humility and hope
The Taming Riverside Theatre — through Sunday, Nov. 13 In 2013, the United States was a seemingly very different place. It had one thing in common with our country today, however: It felt as though all of the partisan bickering couldn’t possibly get any worse. In October of that year, the government shut down for […]
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ICCT’s ‘Dracula’ continues into its second weekend
Iowa City Community Theatre Presents: Dracula Johnson County Fairgrounds — through Oct. 30 Perhaps the quintessential story in the horror canon, Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula has gotten countless treatments from a wide variety of sources over the past 119 years. Everything from cereal and Sesame Street to faithful films and spin-off comic books have […]
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Go forth, eastern Iowa, and baptize yourself in the ‘The Book of Mormon’
The Book of Mormon Hancher Auditorium — through Sunday, Oct. 16 When I first heard that Trey Parker and Matt Stone had written a full-on Broadway musical, I was intrigued — and also a bit scared. I mean, I’ve seen Baseketball, so I know for a fact that not everything they touch is gold. Perhaps […]
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Melodrama and swashbuckling dovetail in Riverside’s ‘Fair Maid of the West’
Riverside Theatre presents: Fair Maid of the West Lower City Park Festival Stage — through July 10 Last week, Riverside Theatre returned to Lower City Park with Pericles, a Shakespearean adventure rife with love, loss and improbable reunions. This weekend marks the opening of Thomas Heywood’s Fair Maid of the West, which echoes Pericles in […]
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Riverside Theatre returns, triumphant, to Lower City Park, with ‘Pericles’
Riverside Theatre presents: Pericles, Prince of Tyre Lower City Park Festival Stage — through July 7 School’s been out for a couple weeks, and the temperatures have long since surpassed a comfortable range, but it feels like it’s never really summer in Iowa City until we can partake of what has become a tradition — […]
