Kansas Theatre Festival results
March 25, 2025
Theatre Lawrence hosted the Kansas Community Theatre Festival on March 22. It was the first time Kansas has held a state community theatre festival in a number of years. Three theatres brought productions. This was the state-level festival as part of the American Association of Community Theatre festival cycle.
Congratulations to Theatre Salina and their production of THE REVOLUNTIONISTS for being selected to advance to the regional festival April 4-5 in Newton, Iowa. Learn more about AACT and the national festival, this June in Des Moines, Iowa here.
Festival Awards:
Outstanding Production: THE REVOLUTIONISTS (Theatre Salina)
1st Runner-up: NATURAL SHOCKS (Manhattan Arts Center)
3rd Place: PETER/WENDY (Theatre Atchison)
Outstanding Ensemble: THE REVOLUNTIONISTS (Theatre Salina)
Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role
Elizabeth-Ali Schade – THE REVOLUTIONISTS (Theatre Salina)
Gin Hoffman – THE REVOLUNTIONISTS (Theatre Salina)
Andrea Price – NATURAL SHOCKS (Manhattan Arts Center)
Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role
Breanna Danielle – PETER/WENDY (Theatre Atchison)
Jessica Gigstad – PETER/WENDY (Theatre Atchison)
Joshua Delfs – PETER/WENDY (Theatre Atchison)
Outstanding Direction – Michael Spicer THE REVOLUNTIONISTS (Theatre Salina)
Outstanding Costumes – April Flasschoen PETER/WENDY (Theatre Atchison)
Outstanding Costumes & Wigs – Jenn Morris THE REVOLUNTIONISTS (Theatre Salina)
Outstanding Lighting and Sound Design – J.R. Lidgett THE REVOLUNTIONISTS (Theatre Salina)
Outstanding Fight Choreography – Chick Pulliam PETER/WENDY (Theatre Atchison)
Theatre Lawrence News & Announcements
“THE MOUNTAINTOP” MEMPHIS TRIP SERIES: NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights movement in the United States from the 17th century to the present. The museum is built around the former Lorraine Motel, the site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Two other buildings and their adjacent property, also connected with the King assassination, have been acquired as part of the museum complex.
“THE MOUNTAINTOP” MEMPHIS TRIP SERIES: STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is a museum located in Memphis, Tennessee, at 926 East McLemore Avenue, the original location of Stax Records. Stax launched and supported the careers of artists such as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Wilson Pickett, Albert King, William Bell, Eddie Floyd, Jean Knight, Mable John, and countless others including spoken word and comedy by Rev. Jesse Jackson, Moms Mabley, and Richard Pryor.
“THE MOUNTAINTOP” MEMPHIS TRIP SERIES: LORRAINE HOTEL The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings built around the former Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2016, the museum was honored by becoming an affiliate museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. stayed in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel in early April 1968, while working to organize protests around the ongoing Memphis sanitation strike. While standing on the balcony outside his room on the evening of April 4, King was suddenly shot once through the neck by an unseen assassin's sniper's bullet. King fell to the ground, bleeding from his head and neck. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, but the wound was fatal. He died at the hospital an hour after the shooting.