Panida to introduce new managing director
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Panida Theater announced Lauren Sanders as their new managing director, who will begin duties in early February. The move comes after former Managing Director …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Panida Theater announced Lauren Sanders as their new managing director, who will begin duties in early February. The move comes after former Managing Director …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Before the stage lights come up and the music begins, there is a certain electricity in the dark air of a packed theater.
The electricity, …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Aside from Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin and perhaps Yogi Berra, the hit television show Seinfeld is responsible for more additions to the American lexicon than one …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The Panida Theater is hosting two of the biggest Christmas classics with a special double-feature screening Saturday, Dec. 3 of Polar Express and It’s a …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
There is an energy in live music that seems impossible to capture on a record. When a musician truly connects with an audience, a conversation …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
After just more than a year as managing director of the Panida Theater, Veronica Knowlton is stepping down to accept a new job as operations …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
What happens when the imagination of a bereaved school kid collides with the reality of cold, hard cash? A comedy-drama about grief, morality, empathy and …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
For nationally touring stand-up comedian Brendan Gay, humor is simply a conduit for sharing stories about a muse he knows best: himself.
“It’s all coming …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Lena Haug likes a challenge.
The professional equestrian has never shied from the unknown, whether it was leading horseback expeditions as a teen in Chile …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
If a person embarked on a mission to watch all of William Shakespeare’s plays from start to finish, the exercise would take just shy of …
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