On a Sunday morning in 1661, in the small town of Newbury, Massachusetts, a young Quaker woman named Lydia walked naked into her church.
In 17th century New England, Puritans exerted extreme power...
Trigger Warning: This article includes mentions of substance abuse and trauma.
The name “Candyland” may bring to mind children happily playing a brightly colored family-friendly board game....
Since beginning in 2006, the Will Power series has brought many of Shakespeare’s works to the classroom. Ordinarily, the annual event involves the Riverside Theatre team visiting middle school classrooms...
This article includes mentions of sexual misconduct and trauma
When University of Iowa student Emmy Lane Palmersheim was young, they adored the stories of Greek mythology. They read all of the Percy...
City Circle Theatre Company hopes to bring its audience out of the pandemic blues by doing the same for Santa Claus with a musical variety show, A Christmas Cabaret, which premieres on Dec. 18.
An...
Riverside Theatre brought one of the oldest Christmas stories to the new world of virtual theater. A Christmas Carol was made available for streaming on Nov. 27 through the theater’s website.
Despite...
The University of Iowa Theatre Department’s final mainstage of the fall season paints a picture of what it’s like to be an essential worker in 2020 — and that’s not a figure of speech.
Essential...
A Skype ringtone echoes over a black screen.
The camera turns on and a woman appears, sitting alone in a darkened kitchen. Donning colorfully patterned sweaters and scarlet reading glasses that...
Neo-Futurist theater has made its way to Iowa City and will be showcased in the latest University of Iowa play to hit the stage premiering on Nov. 13, Seven Neos on the Brink of Mediocracy. The art...
Every year, the University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts hosts spring and fall season auditions that give students with an interest in theatre a chance to perform in a number of productions. As...
For the performing arts, the worldwide transition to digital interaction over Zoom has been particularly devastating. With limited options available to continue to provide their students a meaningful...
Alien invasions, interstellar war, and the end of the world? This Halloween, the Iowa City Community Theatre’s special one-night performance of “The War of the Worlds” will be one to remember.
The...
