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Arts organizations in Lawrence could see losses to already thin budgets after President Donald Trump proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts in his new budget outline.
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Things don’t always go as planned. Theatre Lawrence’s concert production of “Sunday in the Park with George” will explore the difficulty of making great art.
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Lawrence has no shortage of holiday events and traditions, ranging from old-fashioned to, um, very Lawrence. Here are a bunch of upcoming opportunities for festive fun.
Theatre Lawrence will invite the community into a world of pure imagination this holiday season with its production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
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“Crowns” is premiering at Theatre Lawrence soon after the city became the first in Kansas to pass a CROWN Act ordinance. Though unplanned, the timing was divine, Director Annette Billings says.
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Jamie Ulmer, the new executive director of Theatre Lawrence, has a tough act to follow. Here he discusses his experience coming from small-town Beatrice, Nebraska, the new season, and his plans for the community theater.
Theatre Lawrence has announced Jamie Ulmer as its new executive director. He’s coming from Beatrice, Nebraska, where he served as artistic director of a community production recently featured in an HBO true crime documentary.
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An upcoming Theatre Lawrence production will take audience members through a journey full of joy, humor, glitz and glamor in the midst of life hardships, showing what taking a chance on oneself can produce.
Mary Doveton, who founded what was then called Lawrence Community Theatre in 1977 and has remained at the helm for more than four decades, will soon be retiring as executive director of Theatre Lawrence.
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Lawrence community members — even cottonheaded ninnymuggins — are invited to Theatre Lawrence’s in-person and streamed winter production, “Elf: The Musical.”
