We are rich... in theatre opportunities!

What a great weekend of theatre in the corridor!

It's the last weekend to check out the classic Stoppard show Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the festival stage in Lower City Park. Check out our review (and some opinions from the community) here.

Also playing only this weekend is SPT's newest show to meld music and sketch comedy into an evening that always make you laugh and usually makes you think too.

This weekend also brings a new theatre series to stage as Working Group Theatre presents its first Northside Sundays production with Artists in Action Live. Tickets are only $5 and it's on Riverside's stage Sunday night. They've got a great line up of storytellers - Sean Lewis, Megan Gogerty, John Kaufmann, Janet Schlapkohl, and Kristy Hartsgrove. Should be an excellent evening!

It's also the weekend of the musical in the corridor. TCR brings to stage the smash hit 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Old Creamery offers Church Basement Ladies, a hilarious musical that played forever in Minnesota and then went on a national tour last year. Finally, Riverside presents a quirky show about four friends who decide to create a musical called [title of show]. A 2009 Tony award nominee, this show sounds like a lot of fun.

And just because one can never have a weekend of theatre without Chekhov (that's a rule, right?), Coe College will present three Chekhov comedies at the Iowa Theatre Artists Company stage this weekend too.

There's too much - how can anyone see it all? Honestly, I don't think it's physically possible to see it all. But if anyone can show me proof that they went to 4 of the 7 shows this weekend, I'll give you a... t shirt? Sure, why not? It'll give me an excuse to make some Iowa Theatre Blog t-shirts. Ticket stubs from four shows dated this weekend gets you a t-shirt! Do it. You know you want to.