Next Actors is Getting a Fresh Coat of Paint! By Pia Russo, Education Manager; and Tawnie Thompson, Development Manager For 25 years, Next Actors: Summer Theatre for Teens (NASTT) has offered a safe place for high school-aged students to explore playwriting and performance skills as well as life skills including collaboration, confidence, public speaking, the […]
Archives for February 27, 2024
We’re Almost There!
We’re Almost There! Next Act Theatre’s Tribute Campaign, launched in honor of Producing Artistic Director emeritus David Cecsarini and used to support us through our recent leadership transition, has reached 94 percent of its goal! We need your help to finish strong by the end of the 2023-24 season. Make a donation before June 30 […]
Three Cheers for MRS. CHRISTIE!
Three Cheers for MRS. CHRISTIE! By A.J. Magoon, Marketing Director On Monday, December 4, 2023, Next Act Theatre presented a one-night-only staged reading of Heidi Armbruster’s play MRS. CHRISTIE, directed by Laura Gordon, in connection with our production of Agatha Christie’s THE MOUSETRAP! Heidi’s play, a time-bending comedy about Agatha Christie and a modern amateur […]
Farming Is Fixing
Farming Is Fixing A Conversation with Heidi Armbruster and Bree Beelow Heidi Armbruster’s play SCARECROW has a lot to do with farming. It follows Heidi, the playwright and solo performer of the play, returning from New York to her family’s Wisconsin dairy farm after her father’s death. Next Act’s upcoming production of SCARECROW also calls […]
The Charles D. Kakuk Legacy Society
The Charles D. Kakuk Legacy Society By Jane Flieller, Development Director Next Act is pleased to announce the creation of a planned giving program: Charles Kakuk was Next Act Theatre’s Managing Director who, after 22 years with us, lost his battle with cancer in 2014. Charles left a generous gift to Next Act as an […]
Isn’t It Ironic?
Isn’t It Ironic? By A.J. Magoon, Marketing Director It’s like rain on your wedding dayIt’s a free ride when you’ve already paidIt’s the good advice that you just didn’t takeAnd who would’ve thought, it figures -Alanis Morissette, Ironic THREE VIEWINGS is one of the liveliest plays you’ll ever see set in a funeral home. And […]