Category Archives: Plains

Dispatches from Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

You Can Make It Anywhere

Well, maybe not anywhere—but here are 6 cities where theatre workers can thrive outside NYC, L.A., or Chicago.

The lineup will feature seven productions, including the return of ‘The Wickhams.’

The Incubator will connect artist communities in St. Louis and New York.

Iraqi immigrants and refugees living in Minnesota share their personal stories onstage.

The city’s chief critic sees his job as not just evaluating local work but exposing it to a wider audience.

The performer/director/leadership coach, who founded San Francisco’s Ferocious Lotus, will take the reins of the Twin Cities company this fall.

Five colleagues I got to know over the past year through TCG’s professional development program, which adds up to more than the sum of its parts.

How Opera Theatre of St. Louis used a Wallace Foundation Grant to test audience-building strategies.

The kid-friendly lineup includes adaptations of favorite books and musical versions of beloved children’s films.

In every show he directed at my theatre, he’d always try to work in a cigar prop and hide a six-pack of beer somewhere on the set.