Great plays like Our Town can be powerful conversation starters. We invite you to share your thoughts about this production on our Facebook page (you’ve Liked us, right?) and other online channels, talk about it with your friends and neighbors, reach out to our new director of outreach and engagement, Julie Coppens (juliec@ptalaska.org), or join us for one of the …
Needless to say, we’re thrilled to have Irene Bedard on board for our 40th Season-opening production of Our Town. But this iconic play—and the role of the Stage Manager in particular—is bigger than any one person. How much bigger? At last count, one week before previews, Perseverance Theatre’s Our Town boasts not one Stage Manager, but five: Bedard (Inupiaq, Yupik, …
Our cast of characters is growing! In addition to announcing our new managing director Joshua Midgett, this month we welcome a new company manager, Cameron Thorp, and a new costume shop manager, Shelly Wright, to the Juneau staff. In Anchorage, Alexis Sheeder has joined the team as an outreach and development associate. “I feel like after 35 years in this …
Perseverance Theatre, Alaska’s professional regional theatre company, has hired Joshua Midgett as its next managing director. Midgett will join the company’s leadership team this fall as Perseverance launches its 40th season, reporting to the Board of Directors alongside Art Rotch, who’s transitioning from his longtime role as executive artistic director to that of artistic director. “I can’t imagine one person …