The University of Iowa’s New Play Festival has been around since the debut of the Playwright Workshop in 1971, and it has only grown since. The festival traditionally features four staged works from...
Alcohol and SpongeBob enthusiasts alike gathered under the sea at Roxxy on Saturday night to rave with the Nickelodeon gang. In an interesting turn of events, Iowa City has been host to many themed...
When John D’Agata wrote the book “Lifespan of a Fact,” he never expected to see a version of the story on stage. Both he and his co-writer, Jim Fingal, thought the idea was ridiculous when a...
A group of friends, missing sisters, and the supernatural world. This is the basic idea behind both the video game and movie versions of “Until Dawn.” But it feels like that is where their similarities...
Hancher Auditorium has announced its next Broadway series for 2026, having debuted its first series in 2023.
“Kinky Boots”: Inspired by true events, this award-winning musical tells the story...
Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Houston, Texas. His first poetry collection, “The Understudy’s Handbook,” was published in 2020 by the Washington Writers’ Publishing...
Local businesses The Encounter Café, Get Fresh Café, and Yotopia do not have much in common on the surface. But their partnerships with Country View Dairy, a dairy farm in Hawkeye, Iowa, is the connecting...
Freedom of speech has always been important to students — especially students who protest on college campuses.
At the heart of these protests, art is a medium for organizations to easily spread...
Relay Iowa is an annual relay run in which teams of up to twelve people run across Iowa over a weekend, this year from June 6 - 8. The path for the run spans 339 miles from Sioux City, Iowa, to Dubuque,...
Cliche
In retrospect, I think I should have been able to tell from the very first scene that “Sinners” would be a mixed bag.
The film begins with a trope, perhaps one of the oldest in storytelling:...
Inspiration can come from anywhere. For Lillian Giddings and Madeline Riske, it came from the majestic mountains and calming beaches of Ireland.
From March 19-22, the Sigma Tau Delta convention...
To its credit, “The Shrouds” begins by taking a bold swing. It decides to use its best scene right away.
After the ominous and ethereal opening credits, director David Cronenberg presents an...
