Theater

A nationwide promotional sponsored by The Cinema Foundation, a non-profit, aims to increase attendance at theaters across the country. Around 3,000 theaters will show films on approximately 30,000 screens in what is traditionally a slow time at the box office. Tickets are priced at $3 each for one day only, matching the cheapest regular-admission ticket price in 40 years.

A playwright reading based on the life of a Wyoming man who openly crossdressed will tour the Cowboy State. "A Sissy in Wyoming" focuses on Larry Goodwin's life based on oral interviews conducted by the University of Wyoming American Heritage Center with his wife, Vickie Jones Goodwin. Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska spoke with Vickie, the American Heritage Center's Archivist Leslie Waggener, and Gregory Hinton, who wrote and reads the play. Vickie starts out talking about her late husband.

A new theater project in Boulder, Colorado hopes to get communities to reach a consensus over divisive subjects through the power of music and the spoken word. "The Empathy Theatre Project" is the brainchild of Laramie native Cordelia Zars. Wyoming Public Radio's Melodie Edwards starts by asking Zars how the idea came about.

Theatre and performance institutions throughout the state have suffered during the pandemic but grants are helping out. The National Endowment for the…

The Civic Theater Guild in Sheridan is putting on a virtual holiday performance.The theater group will put on a version of the classic, "It's A Wonderful…

Last month, musician John Sidle set up a video camera in his home to perform live on YouTube at the Jackson Hole Hootenanny. The Hootenanny, or The Hoot,…

Playwright Will Arbery is among ten winners of this years Whiting Award. The prestigious award is the largest literary award in the U.S and recognizes ten…

An off Broadway play made waves last year for being about the most unlikely of subjects…young, intellectual Catholic conservatives. Set in Wyoming, Will…

An award-winning play has its Wyoming premier in Laramie. Relative Theatrics presents Madeleine George's play The (curious case of the) Watson…

Relative Theatrics performers and artistic director on Wyoming Sounds recorded on 5/22/19.