Interact Founding Artistic Director Jeanne Calvit to Retire
She’ll step down from the disability-focused arts organization and will be succeeded by Joseph Price, who will take on the role of executive director.
Category Archives: Plains
Dispatches from Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Authenticity and Urgency: New Plays For Us and By Us
How 4 theatres develop work by writers of color with communities of color at the center.
Superheroes on Native Land, Part I
How a Lakota playwright, 7 Indigenous actors, and an L.A.-based ensemble survived a pandemic, crossed thousands of prairie miles, and confronted centuries of history to make a play.
Making Space for ‘Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress’
Children’s Theatre Company proudly debuts juliany taveras’s new stage adaptation of a book that has faced challenges and attacks in some schools.
Jessie Youngblood Named Metro Theater Interim Managing Director
Youngblood will succeed Joe Gfaller, who departs the company at the end of the month to join Clear Space Theatre Company.
Larissa FastHorse and Ty Defoe Make a Show ‘For the People’
Their new play for the Guthrie is a comedy, in large part because that’s what the Native community in the Twin Cities asked for.
Dipankar Mukherjee Named McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist
The award is granted annually to a Minnesota artist and comes with a $100,000 prize.
Something Up With Nathan Louis Jackson
A bard of Kansas City, Kans., he was a warm, mischievous truth teller whose plays reflected his life yet somehow showed us ourselves as well.
Metro Theater Artistic Director Julia Flood to Retire
She will step down after a more than a decade of service to young audiences.
Justin Lucero Named Theater Latté Da Artistic Director
Lucero succeeds founding artistic director Peter Rothstein, who left the company in June after 25 years.
