Arkansas Public Theatre leaders revealed their Season 38 at the annual SeasonLeaks! on Jan. 20 at the Victory Theater in Rogers. The season will be abbreviated as the theater group and the city of Rogers are partnering to restore the nearly 100-year-old theater with an expansion of seating, and it will be closed down August 2023 to January 2024.
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For Arkansas Public Theatre, Season 38 might be subtitled “Go Big Or Go Home.”
For the second time in five years, the Victory Theatre is preparing to close down for a few months. This time, the closure will happen between Season 37 and Season 38 late summer or early fall of 2023 not because of a pandemic, but because the Victory Theatre is getting an interior facelift.
So Season 38, which APT Artistic Director Ed McClure hopes will start in February 2024, had to be BIG! And it is:
Announced tonight during the annual SeasonLeaks celebration at Arkansas Public Theatre are the three shows that will make up APT’s abbreviated Season 38:
“Into the Woods” With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine, Feb. 16-18, 22-25, 2024. Auditions are set at this time for 7 p.m. Dec. 11-12.
The Tony Award-winning musical follows a Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King’s Festival; and Jack, who wishes his co
Editor s Note: As we do every year, the What s Up! staff looked back to see what arts stories we published in 2022 that we expect will have a lasting impact on the culture of our community in 2023. We chose 10 in no particular order and this is Becca Martin-Brown s first selection. It was written by Garrett Moore, who covers the city of Rogers for news, and was published Nov. 28. It s been updated with a statement from Arkansas Public Theatre artistic director Ed McClure and operations manager Lisa Turpin.