Collaborations

This note of thanks is long overdue! I so enjoyed my first experience of Theatre B, and the performance of "The Year of Magical Thinking". From the greeting at the door to the goodbyes and come-again at the end of the evening, it was a relaxing, exciting, positive experience! ...and what can I say about Mary Cochran's performance — Masterfully done — true to the text. Five minutes into it I saw and heard only Joan Didion and her story. Blessings on all of you and the work that you do.

- Sandy

Every season, Theatre B produces several projects in collaboration with other organizations to better serve regional audiences and bring important issues to light. If your company or organization has a project that needs the boost of live performance, intimate story-telling, prominent event space, effective promotions, a dedicated audience base, and a talented creative team, please contact Carrie (carrie@theatreb.org) to find out how Theatre B can be your collaborative partner.  

Cooperation and Collaboration

In addition to the four-show main stage season, Theatre B collaborates with a variety of local artists and organizations on projects that invigorate community conversation and social action.  For example, in honor of the 11th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s murder, Theatre B participated in a world-wide premiere of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later.  The free staged reading was produced in partnership with The Pride Collective & Community Center and the North Dakota Human Rights Coalition, with support from Aaland Law Offices, the High Plains Reader and State Bank & Trust.

Other collaborative partners include: The Spirit Room (Bright Bird: The Art of Corita Kent); the Soroptimists of Fargo & Moorhead (Body and Sold); the FM Symphony (The Soldier’s Tale and Ellis Island: The Dream of America); and the Bemidji Symphony Orchestra (The Defiant Requiem).

Theatre B enjoyed a seven-year partnership with Trollwood Performing Arts School producing Second Stage, a unique educational opportunity for high school students to explore cutting-edge new work as an ensemble, under the guidance of experienced professionals.  This program included original work developed in collaboration with playwrights, contemporary dramas that explore difficult pertinent issues and wildly theatrical new comedies developing a wide range of performance and production skills.

Theatre B has also developed a community service tour with a one-woman show, The Year of Magical Thinking. This new play by Joan Didion follows her journey through grief after the sudden death of her husband of forty years.  A beautiful and poignant show about coping with loss, The Year of Magical Thinking is available for presentation to select groups and under-served rural audiences.