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Anchorage Opera
Professional opera that gives Alaska artists rich performing opportunities.

Alaska Overnighters
Among the most unique of theatre happenings – fully realized plays written, rehearsed and performed within the space of 24 hours. Produced in Anchorage usually twice a year and in Valdez at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference.

Alaska State Council on the Arts
An organization that gives aid and opportunity to theatre artists (and many other artists) in Alaska.

Anchorage Theatre of Youth
One of the oldest theatre-for-youth organizations in the state, ATY produces shows for children and adults.

Anchorage Community Theatre
Oldest theatre organization in Anchorage, ACT has been mounting productions since before Alaska was a state.

Anchorage Convention and Visitors Bureau
A resource for tourists and other visitors. Follow the links to its “Performing Arts” calendar.

"Art Snob"
ADN’s arts blog, written by the paper’s arts writers. It includes reactions and comments by readers, some of whom contribute reviews of Anchorage plays. Hey! You’re invited to submit your own comments! Or do it here at “Green Room.”

Anchorage Press
The city’s alternative weekly publishes an arts calendar for the Anchorage area.

CenterTix
Buy tickets to the performing arts in Anchorage.

Cyrano's Off-Center PlayHouse
Cyrano’s, the little engine that could, hosts a new play every month in the heart of downtown Anchorage. It’s been the venue for an eclectic variety of works for the stage since its first show in 1995 and has long been the home of Cyrano’s Theatre Co. (formerly Eccentric Theatre Co.).

Dramatist Guild of America
The professional association of playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists “dedicated to protecting, informing, and promoting the interests of dramatists everywhere.” Publishes The Dramatist magazine and the Dramatists Guild Resource Directory.

Dramatists Play Service
For 70-plus years, DPS has published acting editing of plays and handled nonprofessional and professional leasing right to the works, licensing the plays of both established and new writers.

Edgeware Theatre Productions
Educational theatre touring company founded in 1990 and headed up by Alaska theatre stalwarts David Edgecombe and Elizabeth Ware.

Fairbanks Drama Association and Children's Theatre
Community theatre in the Far North. FDA is in its 46th season.

Fairbanks Light Opera Theatre
FLOT has been producing musical theatre for more than 35 years.

Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre
Hard by the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks, FST produces the Bard and other classic theatre. Every winter FST hosts the all-Shakespeare-all-the-time Bard-a-Thon, more than a week of round-the-clock readings of Shakespeare’s plays by anyone who wants to join in.

Harper Arts Touring Fund at the Rasmuson Foundation
Offers grants to subsidize travel and freight expenses for those giving touring shows and/or arts and cultural exhibits in Bush Alaska and in communities without regular access to such programs. Named in honor of Cyrano’s Theatre Co. founding member and Artistic Director Emeritus, Jerry Harper.

Last Frontier Theatre Conference
One of the premier theatre conferences in the world, now in its 16th year. If Alaska is home to more playwrights per capita than any place on the planet, blame LFTC.

Out North
Performing arts venue that long has been a home to the marginalized, ON in recent years is mounting more plays from the newest playwrights. ONward.

Perseverance Theatre
Powerhouse organization is largest professional theatre in the state.

Scared Scriptless
Scared Scriptless Comedy Improv Troupe has been performing at Anchorage theatre venues since 2000.

"Stage Talk"
Weekly program on local tehatre happenings airing on public radio station KSKA 91.1 FM (Friday at about 1:40 p.m.), and archived on the station's Web site.

TBA Theatre Inc.
TBA’s innovative, comprehensive theatre productions give local actors, directors, writers and backstage crew of every age rich opportunities to practice their craft. TBA is one half of the producing team (the other is Three Wise Moose) for the Alaska Overnights.

Theatre Communications Group
A national network of non-profit theatres. TCG publishes the acclaimed American Theatre Magazine.

Theatre UAF
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Theatre Dept.

University of Alaska Anchorage Department of Theatre and Dance
One of the best theatre programs in the American West, a seedbed for the Alaska theatre community, the place where many of us learned our chops.