What Are You Doing This Weekend?

Going out to the theatre, we hope! Here's our weekly roundup:

From TCR: Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

(3rd weekend; review here)

"During a wedding reception, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below, in this wickedly funny and touching celebration of the women's spirit."

Script by Alan Ball; directed by Angie Toomsen

Location: Grandon Studio
Time: 7:30 Thursday, Friday & Saturday
Price: $20/$17.50 ($15 Youth)

Alice in Wonderland

"Adventure and wonder often go hand in hand — especially if your name is Alice. Enjoy as the magic unfolds before your eyes when you see Alice in Wonderland at Theatre Cedar Rapids opening on April 27. Local writer Jason Alberty puts a contemporary twist on Lewis Carroll’s classic tale bridging the real and the fantastic."

Script by Jason Alberty; directed by Leslie Charipar

Location: Mainstage
Time: 7:30 Friday & Saturday
Price: $25/$20 ($15 Youth)

From Old Creamery: The Gin Game

(3rd weekend; review here)

"Two nursing home residents strike up an acquaintance and enjoy each other's company. Over a series of games of Gin, they engage in conversations about their families and their lives. What starts as fun soon turns into a battle with both players trying to humiliate the other and expose their weaknesses."

Script by D. L. Coburn; directed by Deborah Kennedy

Location: Studio Stage, Old Amana Middle School
Time: 7:30 Friday and Saturday, 3:00 Sunday
Price: $16.50 - $25.50

From Dreamwell: Baby With the Bathwater

(2nd Weekend; review here.)

" 'This laugh-out-loud comedy fits well with our theme about personal identity,' says director Rachael Lindhart, 'This was actually the second show Dreamwell ever produced, and it’s high time for a revival. Baby With the Bathwater is a dark comedy about how difficult it is to be a parent, and how scary it is to be a baby and a child. The play is written in an absurdist, playful style and, for its dark topic, has a hopeful ending.' "

Script by Christopher Durang; directed by Rachael Lindhart

Location: Unitarian Universalist Society (10 S Gilbert St)
Time: 7:30 Friday and Saturday
Price: $10

From Starlighters: Self-Help for Dummies

"When a self-absorbed psychologist is late for work the ever-growing collection of 'mixed-nuts' in his waiting room begin to interact… with hilarious results. A hilarious comedy from two of Canada’s funniest playwrights."

Script by Todd McGinnis and T. Gregory Argall; directed by Rick Sanborn

Location: Starlighters Mainstage
Time: 7:30 Friday & Saturday, 2:00 Sunday
Price: $13 ($12 Seniors & Students)

From ICCT:Don't Drink the Water

"It’s just one of those days at the American Embassy in cold-war era Vulgaria. Just when the ambassador steps out on some business, leaving his hare-brained son Axel in charge, in rush the Hollanders, a family of American tourists, with a horde of Communist police hot on their heels. Add an embassy flunky, a crazed chef, an insulted Sultan and, of course, true love, and you may spend more time laughing than breathing!"

Script by Woody Allen; directed by Krista Neumann

Location: Johnson County Fairgrounds
Time: 7:30 Friday & Saturday, 2:00 Sunday
Tickets: $17 ($14 Students/Seniors, $8 Youth)

From WGT: Mayberry

"Imagine a Midwestern community—a relatively small, overwhelmingly white, well-educated, and culturally-engaged college town, perhaps—that prides itself on its acceptance of diversity. Then imagine an influx of immigrants from a neighboring metropolis coming to that community, bringing with them new opportunities as well as new challenges."

Script and direction by Sean Christopher Lewis

Location: Riverside Theatre
Time: 7:30 Friday & Saturday, 2:00 Saturday & Sunday
Price: $25 ($22.50 Senior, $12.50 Youth, $10 Student)

From Goatsinger Productions: Iowa Goatsinger's Vernal Weekend Celebration

7:30 Friday - Staged Reading of Song for Orpheus
7:30 Saturday - The Goatsinger Show: Gethsemane
11:00 Sunday -The Iowa Goatsinger Gospel Hour

All performances at the Uptown Theatre in Mount Vernon's First Street Community Center, 221 1st Street East, Mount Vernon.

College Corner
School: Cornell College
Show: Defying Gravity by Jane Anderson
Location: Kimmel Theatre
Time: 7:30 Friday & Saturday, 2 Sunday

... so get out to the theatre!