The seminal summer staple of outdoor theatre is reaching a major milestone in Eastern Iowa. Classics at Brucemore, performed on the… […]
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Revival Theatre Company brings princely tale ‘Pippin’ to Cedar Rapids
Shakespeare with a modern twist: Fourth Room Theatre takes on ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
The Stage: A father’s death stirs up old hostilities in Arthur Miller’s The Price
Slaughter City opens Thursday at the UI Theatre Building

The theatre has provided a forum for exploring labor issues ever since the heyday of the “workers’ theatre” movement in the 1920s and ’30s. Many plays during this period were influenced by the theories of German playwright Bertolt Brecht, who believed that theatre should engage audiences intellectually in order to inspire them to act after the curtain falls. In 1935, Clifford Odets ended his play Waiting for Lefty by having the actors urge the audience to leave the theatre shouting, “Strike! Strike!” […]
The Stage: Private Lives offers glimpse beyond normal

For the last five years, Old Creamery has held its studio productions in a tiny black theatre made from the remnants of a band room in Amana Elementary School, leftover from when the middle school wing moved to a new building. As I settled into my seat to watch The Old Creamery Theatre’s Studio Stage […]
Call for auditions: Dreamwell Theatre’s production of ‘Becky’s New Car’
‘Love, Loss, and What I Wore’ debuts Friday at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts
Dead with the Wind: The Old Creamery Theater throws a dash of murder into a classic
Art City: A look at the stunning, disparate performances of ‘The Work Between’
The Stage: Dazzling debuts this month in theatre

The holidays are over, school is back in session and local theatres have seemingly decided to declare Jan. 24 as “Play Premiere Day.” Boot up your Google Calendars to make room in your schedule for these productions. The Whipping Man Dreamwell Theatre It’s April 1865. A Jewish Confederate soldier returns home after the end of […]