Performing Arts

Broadway's union for performers and stage managers says the sticking point is health care.

Most of us have a venue we love — a theater or concert space — where we really feel at home. But what do you do if that place goes through radical changes?

The decades-old radical troupe Bread and Puppet, famed for its protest art including giant puppets, is touring again — mixing circus, politics and bread in a sharply polarized moment.

This year, Winterset's annual Covered Bridge Festival is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the film, The Bridges of Madison County.

Over a century ago, lawyer Clarence Darrow fought battles that sound remarkably similar to present day struggles.

Margalea Warner, who has lived with schizophrenia for more than four decades, discusses her about her new memoir. Then, we’ll talk with Iowa native and soprano opera singer Jessica Faselt.

The performers are embarking on their first-ever headline theater tour, "Knockout," which will arrive at Waukee's Vibrant Music Hall on Oct. 11.

Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.

Chess Jakobs' new play "The American Five" tells the story of how Martin Luther King Jr. and his closest allies planned the March on Washington. NPR speaks with Jakobs and Ro Boddie, who plays King.

The performances, presented by the Iowa Labor History Society, aim to highlight Darrow's fights for workers' rights, classroom freedom and justice — issues that remain at the heart of today's political debates.