Day Fades Into Night By Bridget Dieden Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. A wealthy couple in the 1940s are struggling to conceive but can’t. Their only daughter, Jillian, died 3 years ago when she was 7 and the household has never been the same since. Unbeknownst to her husband, the bereaved mother has resurrected Jillian as a specter Jillian’s old toy room, but when a new maid is hired, who just so happens to have...

Day Fades Into Night By Bridget Dieden Location: Alan MacVey Theatre, Theatre Building Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. A wealthy couple in the 1940s are struggling to conceive but can’t. Their only daughter, Jillian, died 3 years ago when she was 7 and the household has never been the same since. Unbeknownst to her husband, the bereaved mother has resurrected Jillian as a specter Jillian’s old toy room, but when a new maid is hired, who just so happens to have...

This year's Iowa Directors Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates.

Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted.

Traveling on the city subway, everything seems innocent in the conversation between Clay and Lula, but things quickly escalate. Dutchman, by Amiri Baraka, a highly influential and provocative storyteller of the Black experience, examines the damage to and silence of the Black community — a cycle we seem doomed to repeat.

This year's Iowa Directors Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates.

Tom and Eliza are moving persistently toward the future in their own fantastically twisted journeys. Written by Celine Song — writer and director of the award-winning movie Past Lives — Tom & Eliza propels us on a journey from a first date to the end of life as we know it.

Having a “weakness for youth,” Candy’s romantic partner of 17 years has left her alone to manage her life as a respected landlord and drag queen. With her 35th birthday looming, Candy seeks out love in all the wrong places, willing to do anything to rekindle the love she lost.

This year's Iowa Directors Festival includes four shows presented over two weeks, all directed by MFA directing candidates.

Ever since Joan’s childhood, she has witnessed people doing horrific things in the name of doing what is “right.” Caryl Churchill’s Far Away examines what happens in a world when no one, not even the cats and the rivers, can be trusted.