EXCITING THINGS ON THE HORIZON
We are thrilled to announce our 2nd season, and our first 'full' one, which features plays exclusively by female playwrights.

This season kicks off with HOLY DAYS in November as we begin planting "FRESH PRODUCE," our new Concert Play Reading Series. 

​In January, we launch the first of two fully staged productions with BRILLIANT TRACES featuring popular Des Moines-area actors and community leaders Jami Bassman Ahart and Tom Ahart.
The Thanksgiving Play
By Larissa Fasthorse
CAST
Jaxton Jonathan Delima
Logan Jennifer Allton
Caden Brandon Herring
Alicia Michelle Vaudrin
Narrator Ashley Schaeffer
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director, Producing Artistic Dir. Tom Woldt
Stage Manager, Interim Bus. Mgr. Eliz Tomaras
Dramaturg Jacklin Stonewall
Music Director Anna Lackaff
Interim Production Manager Katie Buchholz
Communications Director Erin Tracy
Literary Manager Jen Ippensen
   
Associate Producer--ON LEAVE Katie Privitera
HOW'S THE WEATHER?  These days it's perplexing.  In addition to the catastrophes and havoc, compelling stories about individuals and their relationships are often buried in the muck.  Or drowned.  We are pleased to share two of these stories this season.  Brilliant Traces takes us inside an isolated cabin in the woods during a raging blizzard, and examines the two people who are forced, by isolation and danger, to sort out a relationship.  Atlas of Mud finds the world completely flooded in a mysterious near-future.  The handful of survivors living in boats must fight for everything--food, dignity, space--as they strain to hold on to love, family, and grace.  Don't miss these exciting journeys!
January 3-5 & 10-12, 2020
7:30 or 2:00
Viking Theatre
​Grand View University
FEATURING: 
​Jami Bassman-Ahart & ​Tom Ahart
May 1-3 & 8-10, 2020
7:30 or 2:00
Viking Theatre 
Grand View University
A CONCERT READING SERIES focused on new works, new looks at old works, and, most importantly, an ever-widening range of voices that speak to the Midwestern experience.  Just as professional and compelling; slightly more economical than our major productions.  Don't miss these!
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November 16, 2019 - Java Joe's 4th Street Theater - Des Moines
Love, Marriage, Death, Dust, and Wind on a Kansas farm, 1936.
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February 20. 2020 - Location tba
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March 31, 2020 - Des Moines - location tba; Omaha - location/date tba
Cancer, money, strip-bar.
"Concert Reading?  What's That?
Using lecterns, a stage-directions narrator, and no technical elements, these readings focus entirely on the story and the actors--literally, the play's voices.

OPEN AUDITIONS

Open auditions will take place as follows.  Please keep checking back for more information.
--Holy Days and Hitler's Tasters:  October XXXX
--Stripped and Atlas of Mud:  December xxxx  or February xxxx
November 16, 2019
Des Moines, Java Joe's 4th Street Theatre
February 20, 2020
Des Moines, location tba
March 31, 2020
Des Moines, location tba
Omaha date, location tba

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