A One Nun-sense Musical Event By Dan Goggin
April 29 – May 22
Our season opener is a celebration of Nunsense nonsense and song. Sister Robert Anne ‘teaches’ you how to put together your own cabaret act. Featuring the very talented Molly Hammer who earned standing ovations in multiple seasons as Patsy Cline.
Adapted by Tom Johnson and Meg Merckens
May 18 - July 2
The second season of our original telling of Amana’s story done in a way you’ll never forget. This one-hour, live presentation will enrich your Amana experience. It’s also being offered as “show & tour.” Bus groups can take a privately guided tour of historic sites following the show. Call the Amana Heritage Museum for group tour information at 319-622-3567. See website for weekly performance times or call the ITAC Box Office. (Show Only: $10 / Show & Tour: $15)
By David Rambo
June 17 - 26
Back by popular demand before heading to the St Croix Festival Theatre in Wisconsin, Meg Merckens returns as Ann Landers, the renowned advice columnist who answered countless letters from lovelorn teens, confused couples and a multitude of others in need of advice. No topic was off-limits, including nude housekeeping, sex in a motorcycle helmet, the proper way to hang toilet paper, and sibling rivalries. The L.A. Times called it “…folksy, funny, straightforward and validating…”
Songs & Writings by Woody Guthrie
Conceived & Adapted by Peter Glazer
August 12 - 28
An exuberant musical celebration, Woody Guthrie's American Song tells the life of the rambling folk singer through his words and music. This show has traveled the country to rave reviews. The New York Times said it "...manages to find both the high beauty and the earthly humor of Guthrie's love affair with America." From the Dust Bowl to California and east to New York City, it includes over two dozen songs, including This Land is Your Land, So Long It’s Been Good to Know Yuh, Hard Travelin’ and Bound For Glory.
A Celebration of Broadway’s Best!
September 9 - 18
Way Off Broadway, Iowa’s only professional musical
theatre company and residential company at the Stephen
Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfield,
performs some of the most exciting and moving music
ever written for the Broadway stage. A memorable mix of
musical favorites from Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Kander
& Ebb, Jerry Herman, Stephen Sondheim & more. Big
Entertainment in the intimate setting of the ITAC theatre.
By Caroline Smith
October 14 – November 6
Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are cable-access cooking show hostesses who have been at odds with each other ever since Stephen Biddle Sr. dated one and married the other. When circumstances pair them up on a TV show called “The Kitchen Witches” the insults are flung harder than the food! Dolly’s long-suffering TV-producer son Stephen tries to keep them on track, a losing battle, as the show becomes a rating smash as Dolly and Isobel top both Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer!
By Kelley Kingston-Strayer
November 11 - 27
Callie Belle Hurt has fallen in love and she wants her grandmother, Hattie, and her two doting and slightly dotty aunts, to know it. But Hattie decides “she ain't buyin' what Callie Belle is selling.” This funny and touching story is about love, sacrifice, and the everlasting bond between a grandmother and her granddaughter. Don’t miss the Iowa premiere of this new comedy featuring Cherryl Moon Thomason, Marty Norton and Meg Merckens.
Lynne Rothrock & Friends
December 9 - 11
Lynne's Christmas show has become an annual tradition in Iowa, playing to sold-out houses at the ARA Gallery and the Museum of Art in Cedar Rapids, the Campbell Steele Gallery in Marion and Riverside Theatre in Iowa City. Join Lynne and special guests, Ron DeWitte, Cory Johnson and Meg Merckens in Amana for holiday music, comedy & more in her first Cabaret on the ITAC stage.
Box Office: Opens March 21, 2011
319-622-3222
Ticket Prices: $20/Adult & $10/Student
Group Discounts & FlexCard Savings Program Available
Regular Performances: Friday - Sunday
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