Category Archives: Plains

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

Playwrights’ Center Names Robert Chelimsky Managing Director

He is currently the managing director of Epic Theatre Ensemble and will start in the position on May 1.

The lineup includes a world premiere play, Shakespeare, a musical, and more.

A novel-turned-play about a wife whose husband comes home from war changed will premiere at Forward Theater Company.

The lineup will feature plays by Nathan Louis Jackson and Kara Lee Corthron.

The 26th season explores a range of contemporary political and social issues.

To respond to Ferguson and the issues it raised, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis sent Dael Orlandersmith on a one-woman listening tour.

The playwright will be honored at the William Inge Center’s annual festival in April 2017.

Take a peek at Mike Horner’s design process of Tyrone in Unicorn Theatre’s ‘Hand to God,’ this year’s most-produced play.

Shows in Nashville, Kansas City, and New Haven are asking kids to form opinions and make decisions about important issues.

If we can’t move past our bias toward theatre made in the U.S. and ratified in New York, we might as well just build a wall.