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Perseverance Theatre’s annual summer youth program, Summer Theatre Arts Rendezvous, is scheduled for July 19-Friday Aug. 4.

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A STAR is re-born: Perseverance Theatre gears up for new take on annual summer youth program

Registration is open.

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JDHS puts on pandemic-friendly production of ‘Fame: The Musical’

Feel it coming together?

Treading the motherboards: Technology allows the show to go on

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Treading the motherboards: Technology allows the show to go on

Upcoming livestreams bring Alaska theater, sense of community to your living room.

Mr. Green (Aria Moore) makes a serious accusation about Mrs. Peacock (Kayla Kohlhase) while holding a feather. A surprised Wadsworth (Toby Russell), Miss Scarlet (Amanda McDowell) and Professor Plum (Jager Hunt) look on. (Ben Hohenstatt | Juneau Empire)

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Juneau-Douglas High School’s latest play is a murder-driven farce

Clue-neau-Douglas High School theater’s play mixes mystery and comedy.

New show confronts clash between church and sexual orientation

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New show confronts clash between church and sexual orientation

The ‘Saints’ are coming.

Diane Fleeks, left, Shelley Virginia, center, and Margeaux Ljungberg rehearse in front of an invited audience for Perseverance Theatre’s production of “Silent Sky” on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. (Michael Penn | Capital City Weekly)

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Eyes to the ‘Sky’: Perseverance Theatre play focuses on women who changed how we see the stars

“Silent Sky” opens Friday at the theater.

Natalia Spengler plays the title roll during a performance of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” by Theatre in the Rough at McPhetres Hall on Tuesday, July 2, 2019. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire)

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A compassionate take on a classic: This ‘Hamlet’ does what other productions don’t

A king and prince you haven’t seen before.

Perseverance Theatre announced the hiring of new managing director Frank Delaney and interim artistic director Leslie Ishii. (Courtesy Photo | Perseverance Theatre)

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Perseverance Theatre announces 2 new hires

Theater fills interim artistic director and managing director roles

Perseverance Theatre’s artistic Director Art Rotch and Juneau Arts & Humanities Council Executive Director Nancy DeCherney address the audience during the break at the annual Wearable Art show in this February 2013 photo. Rotch is departing Perseverance Theatre this month. (Michael Penn | Juneau Empire File)

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Perseverance Theatre’s artistic director is leaving this summer

Big changes at Alaska’s largest professional theater.

Theater Review: New show gets laughs from bawdy, body humor

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Theater Review: New show gets laughs from bawdy, body humor

If you’ve seen London and France, consider seeing this.

There’s a new name for Juneau’s longest-running theater

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There’s a new name for Juneau’s longest-running theater

Don’t say boo.

Late Bloomers: ‘The Underpants’ closes Perseverance Theatre’s 40th season

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Late Bloomers: ‘The Underpants’ closes Perseverance Theatre’s 40th season

Laughs, heart and undergarments important in new show.

An Abby Normal high school musical

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An Abby Normal high school musical

Walk this way.

One-woman show shares workers’ rights icon’s story

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One-woman show shares workers’ rights icon’s story

A labor of love.

Juneauite turned playwright wants help getting his show on stage

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Juneauite turned playwright wants help getting his show on stage

Producing a play isn’t a fling.

Review: ‘Guys and Dolls’ a whole bushel of fun

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Review: ‘Guys and Dolls’ a whole bushel of fun

Warning: You will hum show tunes in the shower afterward.

Perseverance Theatre’s latest is a classic musical with a modern mindset

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Perseverance Theatre’s latest is a classic musical with a modern mindset

Gangsters, gamblers and unlikely love.

Boogie ‘Wonderland’: Alice meets Disco for Perseverance Theatre Young Company Show

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Boogie ‘Wonderland’: Alice meets Disco for Perseverance Theatre Young Company Show

What would Grace Slick think?

New play is ‘Whale’ worth your time

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New play is ‘Whale’ worth your time

I went in skeptical and really enjoyed it.

Perseverance Theatre’s newest play is about woman destined to marry a whale

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Perseverance Theatre’s newest play is about woman destined to marry a whale

“Whale Song” opens Feb. 1.