What Have We Learned?
In the realm of educational theatre, the audience's enjoyment should always be secondary to what the students take from their theatrical experiences. So I certainly hope that 2006's productions were...
View ArticleInner Tube Monologues: "Going Underground," at Black Hawk College November 15
Offhand, I can think of no theatrical climax this year that has been simpler, sweeter, or more subtly moving than the one in Black Hawk College's Going Underground. All it consists of is actress...
View ArticleSuppering Fools: "The Dinner Party," at Black Hawk College through April 19
Neil Simon's The Dinner Party, written in 2000 and currently being staged at Black Hawk College,concerns three formerly married couples who meet for a très sophistiqué evening at a Paris restaurant:...
View ArticleHow Beautiful English Can Be: Pat Flaherty Seizes the Throne in Genesius...
"I think it came from going to church," says area actor Pat Flaherty of his childhood interest in theatre. "Because I'd go to church, and I'd see this guy who was holding everybody's interest through...
View ArticleCommunity Effort: Playcrafters and Black Hawk College Team Up for "Leaving...
Described by the Chicago Sun-Times as "simultaneously hilarious and touching," the road-trip comedy Leaving Iowa is the final presentation in the Playcrafters Barn Theatre's 2011 season. Leaving Iowa...
View ArticleOh, I Know All I Owe I Owe Ioway: "Leaving Iowa," at the Playcrafters Barn...
It doesn't happen often, especially if you attend a lot of local theatre - where the on-stage faces tend to become familiar ones. But every once in a while, you'll be at a production that you're really...
View ArticleBHC Art Faculty: Programs Are Essential to the Community
Our program at Black Hawk College, Art & Visual Communication, recently received the devastating news that two of our four full-time faculty positions will be cut. Kyle Petersen teaches new media...
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