MACT*Fest ’25 – Workshop Session 1

Workshop session 1 will start at 8:30 am on Friday morning. It will offer a choice of 3 topics: “Improv”, “Swashbuckling” and “Fleshing Out The Character”.
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Workshop session 1 will start at 8:30 am on Friday morning. It will offer a choice of 3 topics: “Improv”, “Swashbuckling” and “Fleshing Out The Character”.
Steven LaVigne
People often think that whatever Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) wrote was instant gold for the playwright. This isn’t the case.
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Some actors love auditioning, while others would rather be eaten by a lion than go into an audition room.
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MACT is accepting nominations for the Fliehr Award for Exceptional Service to Minnesota Theatre through February 1.
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Theatre du Mississippi is excited to announce that submissions are now being accepted for our annual one-act playwriting competition!
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Your votes have been counted and the 2024 BroadwayWorld Minneapolis/St Paul regional award winners are …
Steven LaVigne
by Steven LaVigne As anyone who’s read about or taken a class in the history of musical theater knows, Oklahoma! was an innovative musical whose original production changed the genre forever. Prior to 1943, musicals usually opened with a chorus of pretty girls singing and dancing in order to draw in the audience, especially the…
Americans for the Arts
The arts are fundamental to our humanity. They ennoble and inspire us—fostering creativity, empathy, and beauty. The arts also strengthen our communities socially, educationally, and economically—benefits that persisted during a pandemic that was devastating to the arts. The following 10 reasons show why an investment in artists, creative workers, and arts organizations is vital to…
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MACT*Fest is the MACT’s biennial, adjudicated festival of 60-minute plays. MACT*Fest 2025 is our 27th MACT*fest.
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How can any reasonable person in today’s world not understand how the theatre is one of the most beneficial experiences that a high school person can have?