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Joy Vandervort-Cobb animates a whole ensemble of characters in Riverside Theatre and PURE Theatre’s ‘No Child …’

Posted on Oct 10, 2020 by Laura Johnson

Over the past seven months, theater companies in eastern Iowa and elsewhere have reinvented themselves, branching out from traditional spaces onto streaming platforms to keep performance and themselves alive. Starting Thursday, Riverside Theatre — in conjunction with PURE Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina — offered another to their audiences: a recorded play that audiences can […]

Riverside’s ‘Buyer and Cellar’ sets the stage for a fall of fantastic virtual performances

Posted on Sep 22, 2020 by Emily Creery

According to the first result that loads on Google (bless you, Wikipedia), a utopia “is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens.” The hilariously absurd, one-man tale that unfolds in Riverside Theatre’s Buyer and Cellar is just that, a utopia. Starring the sensational Patrick DuLaney and […]

Riverside Theatre takes the virtual stage in its busiest season ever

Posted on Sep 10, 2020 by Brian Johannesen

Even as nearly every other performing arts organization, of every type, has scaled back its programming in 2020, Riverside Theatre is ramping it up. The 2020-21 season marks the 40th season for the revered Iowa City theater, and it has brought with it a good deal of change. […]

‘The Winter’s Tale’: Zooming into a summer tradition with a twist

Posted on Aug 8, 2020 by K. Michael Moore

Fans of Riverside Theatre’s annual Free Summer Shakespeare productions can look forward to a ray of light in the dark of this year’s tumult. Like most theaters, Riverside has temporarily shuttered in person performances in the interest of public safety. This necessary decision prevents us from gathering in Lower City Park’s Festival Stage this summer […]

‘To hell with it, let’s just get married already’: Megan Gogerty and Chris Rich tap into their creativity for COVID wedding

Posted on Jul 2, 2020 by Emma McClatchey

“Here’s the thing that’s true of every good wedding,” says newlywed Megan Gogerty. “You spend so much time, money and energy worrying about if the napkins are going to match the table setting and is the caterer late and what did I do with my ascot? But then you get there and you realize none […]

Riverside Theatre announces upcoming season, pays tribute to longtime location in virtual gala

Posted on Jun 16, 2020 by Natalie Dunlap

In years past, Riverside Theatre held a spring gala called Diamonds and Denim to raise funds and preview their upcoming season. This year, social distancing guidelines didn’t allow for an event quite so glamorous, so Riverside took their 2020 fundraiser virtual, rebranding it the Sweatpants and Slippers Gala. “There’s a lot of nostalgia about this […]

Wine, dine and donate: Brix contributes more than $13,000 to fellow downtown businesses and arts organizations

Posted on Jun 4, 2020 by Natalie Dunlap

When Nick Craig, owner of Brix Cheese Shop and Wine Bar in Iowa City’s Northside Neighborhood, was making plans for his girlfriend’s April 19 birthday, he knew the couple couldn’t celebrate the way they would under normal circumstances. He and Lacy Laughton would usually mark the occasion by going to a performance or eating at […]

Downtown Iowa City Arts Showcase: Megan Gogerty of Riverside Theatre speaks into the void

Posted on Apr 28, 2020 by Little Village

In support of Riverside Theatre, playwright, comedian, actor and professor Megan Gogerty performs at home in part two of the Downtown Iowa City Arts Showcase — a series of performances inviting community contributions to local artists, and to the nonprofit arts organizations that support their work year-round. Support Riverside Theatre To support Megan Gogerty: Venmo: […]

Riverside’s ‘Stages’ is 75 minutes of honest human experience

Posted on Mar 6, 2020 by Laura Johnson

Riverside Theatre opened the Iowa premier of the one-man show Stages by David Lee Nelson on Feb. 28. Nelson’s show and performance are remarkable for several reasons. Co-created and directed with Riverside’s Producing Artistic Director, Stages is the chronicle of Nelson’s own lived experiences with stage four colon cancer. Nelson is both playwright and actor. […]

Five questions with: Playwright/actor David Lee Nelson

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 by Genevieve Trainor

This Friday, Feb. 28, Riverside Theatre’s artistic director Adam Knight brings a story close to his heart to the Gilbert Street stage. Stages is a play that Knight helped develop with long-time friend David Lee Nelson, following Nelson’s diagnosis in 2017 with stage four colon cancer. Throughout the course of his chemotherapy, Nelson kept a […]

‘Thespians can boogie, too’: Riverside Theatre and HomeBrewed team up to support Free Shakespeare

Posted on Feb 5, 2020 by Genevieve Trainor

If you’ve attended a fundraiser in the Iowa City area in the last several years, there’s a better-than-average chance that you’ve heard the sounds of HomeBrewed. They’ve played shows for CommUnity’s Project Holiday meal campaign, for Strengthen • Grow • Evolve, for the local chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness and many other […]

Riverside’s ‘The Agitators’ a timely exploration of 19th century concerns that still plague us

Posted on Jan 25, 2020 by Laura Johnson

Riverside Theatre opened its first play of 2020 with an intense reminder of the importance of history, civil rights and activism. Jessica Link portrays Susan B. Anthony and Curtis M. Jackson is Fredrick Douglass in this retrospective of their friendship and political lives, which often found them at odds with one another. […]

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Joy Vandervort-Cobb animates a whole ensemble of characters in Riverside Theatre and PURE Theatre’s ‘No Child …’

Riverside’s ‘Buyer and Cellar’ sets the stage for a fall of fantastic virtual performances

Riverside Theatre takes the virtual stage in its busiest season ever

‘The Winter’s Tale’: Zooming into a summer tradition with a twist

‘To hell with it, let’s just get married already’: Megan Gogerty and Chris Rich tap into their creativity for COVID wedding

Riverside Theatre announces upcoming season, pays tribute to longtime location in virtual gala

Wine, dine and donate: Brix contributes more than $13,000 to fellow downtown businesses and arts organizations

Downtown Iowa City Arts Showcase: Megan Gogerty of Riverside Theatre speaks into the void

Riverside’s ‘Stages’ is 75 minutes of honest human experience

Five questions with: Playwright/actor David Lee Nelson

‘Thespians can boogie, too’: Riverside Theatre and HomeBrewed team up to support Free Shakespeare

Riverside’s ‘The Agitators’ a timely exploration of 19th century concerns that still plague us

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