While the productions for our next season won’t officially be published until the opening of
The Shadow Box on April 22nd, information regarding the purchase of 2011-2012 Season Passes can be found here on our Tickets Page !

Cast and crew for Tallgrass Theatre’s April-May production of The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer can be found on our Current Production page.  Click here!

See our recent spot on Fox 17- click here!

Feb 21st and 22nd @ 7 PM
Rex Mathes Auditorium

Cast Requirements:

1 Man, 16-21
3 Men,  25+
3 Women, 25+
1 Woman, 50+
1 Flexible Role (No gender/age requirement)

Info for Auditionees:

Prepared audition material not necessary. Auditions will consist of readings from the script and will start promptly at 7:00. Please arrive a few minutes early to complete paperwork and review script pages.

Tech/dress rehearsals for The Shadow Box will be April 17-21, with pickup rehearsals to be held April 28 and May 5. You MUST be available all of these evenings (as well as all show dates of April 22, 23, 29, 30, May 6 and 7) in order to be considered for a role.

For more info, click here.

To read the review by The Des Moines Register’s Michael Morain, follow the link below:

Review: Des Moines Register’s Michael Morain

To read the review by The Culture Buzz’ John Busbee, follow the link below:

Review: The Culture Buzz’s John Busbee

UTOPIA is a new musical revue by Robert John Ford, the creator of CAUCUS! THE MUSICAL and SIX-ON-SIX: THE MUSICAL. Featuring a cast of five and a wide variety of original songs and sketches that celebrate and poke gentle fun at the unique people, places and traditions of the great state of Iowa, UTOPIA is sure to bring a smile to your face and a warm feeling to your heartland.

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This year’s winning script is Again and Again, and Eventually by Erica Spiller.

Marshall desperately grasps at threads as he watches his family dynamics evolve. He is a one man army fighting against the drug abuse, medical conditions, and deployment that terrorize and threaten his family. Despite all the enormous battles Marshall tries to fight, he is plagued by one grand war – the struggle to never surrender.

Hear all about it from John Busbee’s Culture Buzz.

Click here to read the review

Laurel: Karen Schaeffer
Nate: Gabe Thompson
Hal: Josh Visnapuu
Steffi: Corissa Thompson
Gordon: Paul Valleau

For more information, visit the Three Changes page.

Announcing the 2010-2011 Season at Rex Mathes Auditorium:

Three Changes by Nicky Silver

Directed by Maranda Turner

Performances:  October 1-16, 2010 
Auditions:  August 9-10 
Available Roles: 2 men, age 25+, 1 man, age 18-25, 1 woman, age 18-25, 1 woman, age 25+
Synopsis:  Nate and Laurel are a seemingly happy couple—busy, content and comfortable—until the surprising arrival of Hal, Nate’s long-lost brother. A once-successful television writer, Hal is just out of rehab. He’s out of cash and alone in the world. But what seems to be a casual visit, a chance to reconnect, is quickly revealed to be something much more ominous. As he attempts to write his first novel, Hal insidiously usurps Nate’s place in the home. As the play builds to its climax, the two brothers who have tried to find a way to love each other, become locked in a battle that will cost one of them their life.

Fifth Annual Iowa Playwrights Workshop
-A fresh new work by a local playwright-

Workshop and production under the direction of Josh Visnapuu

Submissions welcome through September 1
Selected Script Announced October 4

WORKSHOP DATES:
Workshop 1: October 24-30 
Staged Readings:  November 1-2 
Workshop 2:  November 7-13 

PRODUCTION DATES:
Performances:  January 21-February 5, 2011 
Auditions:  November 15-16 
Available Roles: To be announced upon script selection
 

The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer

Directed by Daryl Vitali

Performances:  April 22-May 7, 2011 
Auditions:  February 21-22 
Available Roles:  1 man, age 16-21, 3 men, age 25+, 3 women, age 25+, 1 woman, age 50+, 1 flexible (no gender/age requirement)
Synopsis: Winner of the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize, The Shadow Box centers around three terminal cancer patients dwelling in separate cottages on a hospital grounds. The three are attended and visited by family and close friends: Agnes and her mother Felicity, estranged further by the latter’s dementia; Brian and ex-wife Beverly, whose complications are exacerbated by Brian’s new lover, Mark; and Joe and Maggie, unready for the strain of Joe’s impending death and its effect on their teenage son.