The Des Moines Playhouse Announces Summer Tent Theatre
The Des Moines Playhouse, now in its 102nd season, is keeping theatre live in Des Moines this summer in a unique setting.by BWW News Desk
The Des Moines Playhouse, now in its 102nd season, is keeping theatre live in Des Moines this summer in a unique setting.
The Playhouse announced a summer Tent Theatre series tonight, Apr. 9, 2021, before the opening of Some Enchanted Evening. Three shows - Godspell, Plaza Suite, and Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical - will be performed in an event pavilion in the theatre s east parking lot in July and August 2021.
By John Busbee
3/3/2021
Stuart (Will C. Johnson) is a little mouse on a big adventure in âStuart Little,â playing through March 14, in repertory with âLeaving Iowa,â at The Des Moines Playhouse. Photo Credit: Brent Isenberger
This month marks the one-year anniversary of when stages across central Iowa went dark. As local producers mourn the loss, they remain resolved to adapt and find ways to overcome the situation. A key ingredient has been the support from patrons and the government. Each of these sources is a testament to the vital contributions that performing arts add to a healthy and thriving community. Another has been the collective coping with the situation. Each company not only has gone through rigorous internal evaluations and ârolling plansâ in response to the fluid challenge, but they are also maintaining ties with their kindred spirits: fellow companies in the community. Countless pencil scratching with plenty of erasures were used in t
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During a visit to her alma mater, Des Moines Roosevelt High School, in 2016, then 90-year-old Cloris Leachman delivered a TeddyTalk, where she was asked why she became an actress.
“It was just something to do for fun, she replied, according to an account on the Des Moines Public Schools website. It still is.”
The reality, however, is that the Academy Award-winning Leachman spent most of her life on a stage of one sort or another, working to develop the talents that would carry her to fame in movies ranging from the madcap Young Frankenstein to the bleakly tragic The Last Picture Show, for which she won her Oscar.