City Circle Acting Company and Young Footliters Youth Theatre are seeking designers for the 2017-2018 season. Positions in set, lights, sound and costumes are available, and all local designers are welcome and encouraged to join our team! Many positions include an honorarium. We are a community-based theatre and love working with designers who are independent, volunteer-friendly, and flexible collaborators in making the show go on!

City Circle Acting Company is seeking new, original unpublished plays for inclusion in its biannual New Play Festival. Any author is welcome to submit up to three original plays or musicals, but priority will be given to submissions that are: created by a local author or an author with strong Iowa ties to be performed with simple set, costume and technical demands approximately 10 minutes in length receiving their debut performance at this Festival The chosen plays will be performed as part of City Circle’s New Play Festival, September 16, 2017 at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts.

Join us for our annual Change of Seasons Celebration on Sunday, June 25 from 2pm-5pm at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. There will be food and drink and a chance to meet other CC friends and volunteers. We’ll celebrate the just completed 19th season with a musical and pictorial retrospective and preview our upcoming 20th anniversary season.

City Circle is proud to present the  WILDLY MISCAST CABARET CONCERT directed by Chris Okiishi. The Cabaret will be an evening of song and performance by some of the area’s best artists performing things you would NEVER imagine they could do! The performance will be Saturday, June 24 at 7:00 pm at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. 

Thanks to all who auditioned! Please keep auditioning for future City Circle shows. MOLLY – Paige Harken BOY – Austin Wicke TED –  Christian Drollinger PRENTICE – Ellis Fontana STAChe – Caroline Price SMEE – Elijah Jones ALF – Jen Brown  BUMBRAKE – Derek Johnson GREMPKIN/PRAWN – John Shang BILL SLANK – Kevin Burford JOHN ASTOR – Kevin Moore CAPTAIN SCOTT – Hank Welter

City Circle Acting Company is proud and excited to announce our 20th anniversary season. In addition to our biannual New Play Festival, our 2017-18 season will include Peter and the Starcatcher, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Chess (concert version), Little Women, and Return to the Forbidden Planet (teen show).

We had the largest turnout for a teen show ever and we wanted all who auditioned to know that your talent, courage and enthusiasm were nothing short of incredible! Thank you and we encourage you to continue auditioning for future City Circle shows. ERIC – Kyle Irish-Gorvin ARIEL – Veronica Abreu URSULA – Faye Duster SEBASTIAN – Damarius Levi TRITON – Nysio Poulakos CHEF – Sean Harken SCUTTLE – Tobias Epstein FLOUNDER – Frances Bortoff FLOTSAM – Agustin Colin-Sanchez JETSAM – Whit Jury GRIMSBY – Joey Lepire SISTER – Ellie Hawkins SISTER – Katey Halverson SISTER – Claire Green SISTER – Sasha Tyler SISTER – Emma Furlong* SISTER – McKenna Proud ENSEMBLE – Ian Allen, Tommy Brands, Ben Chapman*, Samantha Croco*, Maia DeGrazia*, Payton Freeney, Alex Granfield, Paige Harken*, Reese Hill*, Ben Jaeger, Thomazin Jury*, Maddie Maley*, Deuce Martin, Zoe Miller*, Joshua Millsap, Trevor Meyers, Elias Perez, Keaton Scandrett*, Ella Schmitz, Jessie Shaw*, Anna Szot*, Ethan Upchurch, Katherine Yacopucci, Evan Zukin *denotes Principal Dancer

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN CAST LIST Thank you for such a wonderful turnout for auditions. We wish we could have cast all of you so keep coming back! We are very pleased to announce the cast: Annie Oakley – Hannah Green Frank Butler – Dustin Davis Tommy Keeler – Sage Spiker Winnie Tate – Lindsay Raasch Dolly Tate – Mary Denmead Charlie Davenport – Christian Drollinger Buffalo Bill Cody – Gary Benser Foster Wilson/Pawnee Bill – Emil Rinderspacher Chief Sitting Bull – Derek Johnson Jessie (Annie’s little sister) – Lilly Vogts Nellie (Annie’s other little sister) – Nina Torkelson Little Jake (Annie’s little brother) – Santiago Perez Ensemble: Michelle Altmaier, Barbara Barrows, Rebecca Bauer, Francis Botterff, Ben Chapman, Emilee Cruchelow, Elizabeth Davis, Ellen Fields, Jack Furlong, Maria Hernandez, Willa Martin, Robert Morris, Joe Mozena, Rachael Rhoads, Nick Rudzianski, Kasey Theil, Aaron Schultz, Minsu Song, Amy Sunderman Annie Get Your Gun will be performed April 28-30 and May 5-7 at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts. 

Prior to the Saturday night performance of Next to Normal on February 11, City Circle Acting Company will partner with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to present a pre-show discussion at 6:45. Director Kathryn Van Meter and local psychiatrist Christopher Okiishi will be joined on stage by members of the local NAMI organization in an interactive discussion about the impact of mental illness on individuals and their families and communities.

We need help in the shop November 12 and 13 to get ready for our holiday show, Fiddler on the Roof. On Saturday, November 12, we’ll meet at 9am to organize the shop–put away platforms, props and furniture from our last show. If enough volunteers show up, we’ll be done by 10 or 10:30.