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The Cloris Awards celebrate nine years as the catalyst for central Iowa in recognizing the united excellence of community-produced theatre. Through its annual Awards Program, the Cloris Awards unite the Des Moines theatre community and enhance the visibility of local theatre companies and production

Leave it to an Iowa girl to create a fun-loving, frolicking farce about women and friendship, the guys they love, and, never forget, the wine. What’s a girl

A decade ago, a small group of Des Moines performers put together a reading of August Wilsons Pulitzer-prize winning play "Fences." Ten years and one theater company later, theyre back with his oth…

While fall’s Iowa landscape is rife with images of harvesting, theatre companies are now planting seeds for successful 2022-2023 seasons. With many an afterglow from a bevy of fine productions from last immersion from the pandemic doldrums, as exhibited by the array of exceptional nominees presented

Carousel Theatre of Indianola’s production of “Next to Normal” won the award for best musical, while Iowa Stage Theatre’s staging of “The Cake” won the award for best play during the seventh annual Cloris Awards Ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 28, at the Jamie Hurd Amphitheater in West Des Moines. Named

Carousel Theatre in Indianola to be Honored at Cloris Awards

And the winner is... local theater in greater Des Moines for returning to the stage after the pandemic finally moved out of the spotlight. After skipping a year, the seventh (almost) annual Cloris Awards will honor eight local theater companies that produced 33 shows during the 2021-2022 season.

Central Iowa continues to celebrate a special Oscar-winning actress who continued to maintain a strong relationship with her hometown, Des Moines. Cloris Leachman departed this mortal stage in January of 2021, joining a celestial band of fellow performers and luminaries. One special legacy she left

Des Moines Register During a visit to her alma mater, Des Moines Roosevelt High School, in 2016, then 90-year-old Cloris Leachman delivered a "TeddyTalk," where she was asked why she became an actress. “It was just something to do for fun," she replied, according to an account on the Des Moines Public Schools website. "It still is.”  The reality, however, is that the Academy Award-winning Leachman spent most of her life on a stage of one sort or another, working to develop the talents tha...