Dusk of a Great Day at Theater Mu
A new report, part of the Wallace Foundation’s Advancing Well-Being in the Arts initiative, spotlights promising solutions to long-standing artistic challenges at a Minnesota theatre company.
Category Archives: Plains
Dispatches from Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Joseph’s Big Swings at the Guthrie
What has he learned after leading Minneapolis’s flagship theatre for the last 11 years, and what’s next? Plus: a Pittsburgh check-in with Sharon Eberson.
Subtext Redux: In Memory of Rachel Jendrzejewski
A republished Subtext as tribute to its subject, Rachel Jendrzejewski, a Minneapolis-based interdisciplinary artist and writer who died last week after a battle with cancer.
Play Well, Be Well: A Report on the Benefits of Youth Arts Engagement
‘Stitching the Threads Together,’ a new literature review from Rand and the Wallace Foundation, details some of the specific ways that arts engagement affects youth well-being.
‘Jersey’ Twins: How 2 Brothers Are Sharing the Role of a Lifetime
Coby and Chris Oram are living a long-held dream by alternating as Frankie Valli in a Kansas City dinner theatre.
Theater Mu Names Fran de Leon New Artistic Director
De Leon succeeds Lily Tung Crystal and interim artistic director Katie Bradley, and will lead the Midwest’s largest Asian American theatre company alongside managing director Ann Thu T. Pham.
St. Louis’s Muny to Receive Regional Tony
The St. Louis musical theatre mainstay, now in its 107th season, will receive the special award on June 8.
Kansas City Rep Names Jeremy Dewey Executive Director
Dewey succeeds former executive director Angela Gieras, and begins the role June 1.
Children’s Theatre Company Names Ryan French Managing Director
French assumes the position after serving as CTC’s current deputy managing director.
Six Points Theater Names Art Allen Managing Director
It’s a new position at St. Paul’s Jewish-centered theatre company.
