March 12Live-streamed at 7:00 p.m. AKDT Black Alaskan History Matters (BAHM!) Lecture, Storytelling, and Poetry With M.C. MoHagani Magnetek Who was ACTUALLY the first person to travel to the North Pole? Did you know that one of the largest landowners in the state of Alaska in the 1950s was an African American woman sex worker? Have you heard the story …
Cosplay Community Conversation, 8/28 5:30 p.m. Alaska time
Perseverance Theatre Artistic Director, Leslie Ishii, and Associate Conservatory Director at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), Peter J. Kuo, announced on Wednesday, July 29, via live-stream that the first show of the Fall 2020 Season will be In Love and Warcraft by Madhuri Shekar. The show will be a co-production shared by the two theatres and will be live-streamed via Zoom. This is …
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Grant Prize Winner – Marie Matsuno NashTwo round-trip tickets from Alaska Airlines, $2000 in cash. Value: $4500 2nd Prize Winner – Stan LujanOn Cloud Nine – Two tickets on Level One or Level Two Helicopter Tours from NorthStar Trekking (subject to availability), a pair of Perseverance Theatre 2020-2021 season tickets, a $50 gift card for Salt, a gift basket from …
From the desk of Leslie IshiiArtistic Director, Perseverance Theatre Many are concerned that our Pan Asian and Pacific Islander/Native/Indigenous and Middle Eastern, North African and Arab communities continue to be at risk due to anti-Asian sentiment that is becoming more wide-spread since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. (PA/PI/N/I/MENAA=Pan Asian/Pacific Islander/Native/Indigenous/Middle Eastern, North African, Arab) As top federal and local …
For immediate release A Play for the AgesAlaska Native play goes back 10,000 years to seek adventure, romance, and difficult lessons of growing into a leader Anchorage, AK (October 9, 2019) – Over 10 millennia ago, a giant sea creature – the Devilfish – destroys an entire village, and a young girl is the only survivor. She must make her way …
Juneau, Alaska – Perseverance Theatre is happy to announce that Frank Delaney has joined the organization as the new managing director, and Leslie Ishii will serve as interim artistic director while the board conducts a search for a permanent leader for the role. After completing his M.F.A. in acting, Delaney worked as an actor and fight choreographer throughout the Midwest. …
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 …