The future of community theater is… complicated
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It seems everything has been turned on its side during the COVID-19 pandemic, but one area that has been especially hard hit is community theater. …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It seems everything has been turned on its side during the COVID-19 pandemic, but one area that has been especially hard hit is community theater. …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
People often do a lot of acting around the holidays — acting like they love green bean casserole, acting like their career is “going great” …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
The folks at local theater company Unknown Locals are at it again, and this time, they’re going in blind.
“Blind Panic,” the latest play by …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Editor’s Note: This play was written by Ben Olson, who is co-owner and publisher of the Sandpoint Reader. He is shamelessly using this newspaper …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
Infidelity, family troubles, suicide clubs and even weddings: Sandpoint theater company Unknown Locals likes to tackle some tough subjects with human touch.
Their upcoming …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
It’s one of the iconic works of the English language. It’s among the most-performed plays in theater. And it’s coming to Sandpoint.
Following up on …
By Cameron Barnes
Reader Staff
Being the macho man that I am, I once refused to see plays when I lived near Broadway in New York. Shortly after, my father …
By Dion Nizzi
Reader Staff
Oscar Wilde once opined in his 1889 essay “The Decay of Lying” that, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” That notion is …
By Dion Nizzi
Reader Contributor
Most would offer the idea that death, or even the prospect of it, is not a laughing matter.
“No Service,” the most recent play from …
By Scout Anatricia
Reader Intern
It’s one of those topics that make people’s increasingly wrinkly palms sweaty and forms a knot in the pit of their ever-aging gut.
The inevitablitity …
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