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"Wrestling" Match: Director Scott Irelan Blends Modern Themes with Modern...
Augustana College opens its 2010-11 theatre season with the student/faculty collaboration Wrestling with Angels & Demons, and true to its title, the play will find its performers doing a fair share...
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Curtain Call: Mike Schulz and Thom White Discuss Area Theatre in 2010
As we’ve come to annually expect, there was practically no end to the highlights from this past year in area theatre.
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True Academic Theatre: St. Ambrose Explores a National Tragedy in...
For his first directorial effort at St. Ambrose University, Daniel Rairdin-Hale in April staged the ancient-Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex. This month, however, finds the school’s assistant professor of...
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A Third Space in the World: Arlene Malinowski Creates a Bridge Between the...
Nearly everyone who was of TV-viewing age in 1963, it seems, remembers where they were on the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. For writer/performer/instructor Arlene Malinowski, that day is...
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Talking Outside the 'box: Kim Furness Discusses the Curtainbox's 10-Year History
[Author's note: The following was written for TheCurtainbox.com, the Web site for our area's Curtainbox Theatre Company, of which I've been a proud member for nearly a year.] Recently, Curtainbox...
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Where We Were, Where We Are: New Ground Theatre and Quad Citians Affirming...
For the final production in her company’s 10th-anniversary season, New Ground Theatre Artistic Director Chris Jansen chose to direct a rather epic piece: the debuting period drama Under the Radar,...
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Stage Fraught: Summer Theatre in the Quad Cities and Surrounding Areas
Adulterous lovers. Women and men in drag. Mistreated orphans. Nuns sniffing glue. Grandmas peddling racy underwear. But enough about my upcoming birthday party. These are just a few of the stage sights...
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Bursting at the Seams: The Harrison Hilltop’s Tristan Tapscott Discusses Big...
Odd as it may seem now, there actually was a period in the Harrison Hilltop Theatre’s history – a run of 12 shows, to be precise – in which the company didn’t produce any musicals whatsoever. Yet after...
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How Beautiful English Can Be: Pat Flaherty Seizes the Throne in Genesius...
“I think it came from going to church,” says area actor Pat Flaherty of his childhood interest in theatre. “Because I’d go to church, and I’d see this guy who was holding everybody’s interest through...
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Till There Was You: Christopher and Erika Thomas Play "The Music Man"'s...
Quad City Music Guild’s new production of The Music Man – the Meredith Willson classic running August 5 through 14 – stars husband and wife Christopher and Erika Thomas as romantic leads Harold Hill...
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