Written by: Mary Hall Surface, based on the book by Eleanor Estes
Directed by: Braden JP Rood
October 4-6 & 11-13, 2019

Wanda Petronski just wants to join the fun of having friends like everyone else. But in 1930’s small town America, a Polish immigrant doesn’t easily fit in. When Maddie’s best friend Peggy starts to tease Wanda, Maddie knows it isn’t right. When the teasing doesn’t stop and the Petronskis move to get away from the town’s prejudices, Maddie is wracked with guilt. She soon realized that allowing her friend to be a bully can be just as bad as acting that way herself. Determined not to let her fear get the best of her again, Maddie braves the scorn of her classmates and stands up to them, making an unlikely friend in the process.

Written by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Grant Freeman
July 19-21 & 26-27, 2019
First Street Community Center Uptown Theatre

Caryl Churchill's Love and Information is made up of seven sections with over fifty scenes and one hundred characters. At its core, this work asks us to think about how new or missing information changes our relationships with others, whether it is a revealed secret or a forgotten memory.

DescrWritten by: Kelli Massey, Eva Giacomo, Barbara Lau, Kristen Schneider, Amy White, Tristan Maynard, Brian Tanner, Chris Okiishi, Grant Freeman, Elijah Jones
Directed by: Kati Yau, Barbara Lau, Grant Freeman, Mandy Moellering, Braden JP Rood, Amy White, Bill Croghan, Anton Rood
March 7-10, 2019
First Street Community Center Uptown Theatre

This new play festival centers around the theme of Roots. This idea has been expressed in numerous ways from the roots of evil to familial roots to the foundations of community theatre itself. With ten different plays from ten different local Eastern Iowa writers, Roots: A New Play Festival is sure to be grounded in great midwestern theatre and stem plenty of theatrical ingenuity.iption goes here