Season 4
We are excited to announce our 4th Season here at TheatreMidwest! We'll kick off the season in December with Dairy Queen by Sarah Loucks who set this play in a Boone, Iowa Dairy Queen! Look for our 2nd Fresh Produce Reading, Burst, in February and our fully staged project, Kitchen Killers​, featuring 3 plays in Spring of 2022. 

Trapped in your hometown, trapped in your own lies, or trapped in love, this season has something exciting and desperate to say about our complicated lives.​
A FREE 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!
"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.
When the Dairy Queen manager is away, the teenage employees will play.
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DECEMBER 4-5, 2021
at Art Terrarium in Des Moines, IA and streaming online
"Being a tech visionary is a heavy load, and Sarah is the only one great enough to bear it." - Sarah
FEBRUARY 12-13, 2022
at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden in Des Moines, IA and streaming online
Due to several circumstances beyond our control, we have postponed KITCHEN KILLERS to a yet-to-be-determined future time.
​-posted 3/15/22-
​Our final project of the season will be a fully staged production of 3 plays.

TBA
Trifles
By Susan Glaspell
One Mean Blueberry Pie
By C. Denby Swenson
Uisce Beathe 
By Keele Kurtas-Chapman
Take a look at the scripts for the season's plays here.
TheatreMidwest holds open auditions for most productions. Keep checking our Auditions page for upcoming opportunities.
TheatreMidwest is committed to reducing barriers that keep the public from seeing live theatre. Learn about this radical strategy here.

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