For Kids
My Turn Theater will provide support and performance opportunities for actors with special needs, with the goal of producing a major musical production each year.
Arts Therapy
Grantee
Stage
Performing arts of all kinds! Plays, musicals, staged readings, opera, and more. Local theater houses include the Spokane Civic Theater, Stage Left Theatre, Spokane Children’s Theatre, and many others. The First Interstate Center for the Arts hosts Spokane’s Best of Broadway series, which brings touring productions of acclaimed Broadway shows like Hamilton. Find out more below!
Stage
Artist
Duncan Menzies
Duncan started an LLC (pending nonprofit) to produces devised cabaret and staged work that intersects fine art and is performed at an art gallery.
Stage
Event: Opens February 11
Crazy In Love: A Devised Cabaret From the Heart
Crazy In Love is inspired by the three great interpretive singers who star in this Valentine’s Day piece of perfection as each gives their own personal story of love through song.
Stage
Event: January 20
Staged Reading – “Mad Underground” by Sandra Hosking
Join Spokane Playwrights Laboratory for our January workshop performance! Start the new year with a brand new play, as we workshop an original full length script “Mad Underground” by Sandra Hosking.
Music
Artist
Roddan
Scott Roddan, who goes by the artist name “Roddan” is a West Coast American-Songwriter who writes and composes songs that include genres of Singer Songwriter, Blues, Folk, and Americana.
Stage
Event: Opens December 19
A Christmas Carol, Radio Play
Minneapolis playwright Barbara Field’s adaptations of A Christmas Carol are part of Spokane Civic Theatre’s DNA. We first produced her rich and delightful take on Mr. Dicken’s tale in the late 1970s, under the artful direction of the legendary Dorothy Darby Smith, one of our Founders. Dorothy, and later others, would continue to direct Barbara’s adaptations for many, many holiday seasons, and this included a streamlined version used in later years. Now, at Civic’s request, Barbara, 87-years-young, is back with an updated script that she has authorized us to share with the Spokane community this holiday season in collaboration with Spokane Public Radio.
Stage
Event: Opens January 7
The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute
Join the Upstart Players at The Art Spirit Gallery in Coeur d’Alene for two performances of Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things, directed by Erin Sellers! The Shape of Things is a sexy, thrilling, and dark romantic comedy that shows us a semester in the lives of four deeply connected individuals as naive college student Adam is pulled into a relationship with charismatic and seductive art major Evelyn. As their relationship heats up, the engagement of Adam’s friends Jenny and Phillip begins to crumble and all their lives are forever changed.
Dance
Grantee
Vytal Movement Dance
Vytal Movement Dance will present a dance concert titled, Together We Dance, that celebrates our way back together as community. The work will be performed three times in the Spring of 2022.
For Kids
Grantee
Kemuel DeMoville
DeMoville is receiving SAGA support to write two short plays. These plays will eventually join a total of seven or eight new short works by DeMoville in a suite of Theatre for Youth plays entitled, “Bridges.”
Music
Grantee
Inland Northwest Opera (INO)
The Opera Truck is INO’s newest program: a 16-foot box truck, which has been converted into a mobile stage to employ artists, expand INO’s audience, and provide educational programs through Covid restrictions.