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Our fall mixed-level virtual writing workshop starts in one week! The cost is subsidized and it’s a great opportunity to experiment with playwriting, whether you’re a beginner looking for fun, accessible activities or a more experienced writer looking for new tools to try! www.rotatetheatre.org/wswriting.html

It’s September! The fall 2024 starts in just a couple weeks!

Adult theater artists, especially performers of underrepresented demographics (LGBTQIA2S+, BIPOC, women, etc), are invited to register for this mixed-level series (and to write engaging roles for themselves and their fellow performers)! For more info and to sign up, visit: www.rotatetheatre.org

Thank you YippieFest, the other artists, and audience members for including us in this year’s festival and for supporting Deborah's Place, Howard Brown Health, and Northwestern Settlement Food Pantry!

Chicago! See you at YippieFest tomorrow at 4:45pm at the Chopin Theatre for the short play OUT with Ashely Bagot, Elana Elyce, and Cyra K. Polizzi (seen here in the Madison production), directed by Breahan Eve Pautsch!

Great rehearsal for the short play OUT with Ashely Bagot, Elana Elyce, and Cyra K. Polizzi, directed by Breahan Pautsch, performing this Saturday at 4:45pm at YippieFest at the Chopin Theatre in Chicago!

One month till the fall 2024 ! Adult theater artists, especially performers of underrepresented demographics (LGBTQIA2S+, BIPOC, women, etc), are invited to register for this mixed-level series (and to write engaging roles for themselves and their fellow performers)! For more info and to sign up, visit: www.rotatetheatre.org

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We are excited to close out our 2023/2024 season with a performance at , a three-day theater festival in Chicago! We're performing the short play Out, which premiered at Mini Fest in Madison, WI in 2023. YippieFest proceeds benefit charities providing services to people experiencing homelessness, food insecurity, and barriers accessing healthcare. For the Out digital program, visit: www.RotateTheatre.org . For the festival schedule and ticketing, visit: www.yippiefest.com

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Excited for ’s spring writing workshop starting a week from today! We are grateful for the support, partnerships, and collaborations that help us offer many development opportunities to artists free of charge – Consider donating to Rotate Theatre today! A donation of $250 fully subsidizes this workshop series for one artist.
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Snapshots from last month’s Stage Test run-through with the actors before the show!
After receiving such great feedback from the audience, some of the writers will be continuing to develop their plays in our 2024 workshops, the first of which starts in just two weeks!

Thank you to everyone involved in making our winter event possible! It was great to see the Stage Test pieces with a full house, many of them for the very first time in front of an audience! Thank you collaborators for creating these stories and bringing them to life, audience members for your engagement and feedback, friend organizations MYArts-Madison, UW South Madison Partnership, and Box of Wax Records, and individual donors and supporters who made it possible for us to offer Access Tickets to Stage Test and fully-subsidized enrollments for the preceding artist workshops – THANK YOU!

Excited to be performing back at the MYArts building! See you at 4:30 in Studio 4C!

Tomorrow! Scenes from brand new plays! One night only!

Can’t wait till the next World Premiere Wisconsin festival? Join for a program of staged readings on Saturday, February 17 at 4:30pm at the MYArts building in Madison, WI! www.rotatetheatre.org

Attend Stage Test: An Evening of Works in Development on Saturday at 4:30pm for a chance to win an album from Box of Wax Records!

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Excited to share the brand new pieces in Stage Test with an audience for the first time on Saturday at 4:30pm in Madison! For more info about Stage Test: An Evening of Works in Development, visit www.rotatetheatre.org

One week away! One-night-only!

Join for Stage Test: An Evening of Works in Development on Saturday, February 17 at 4:30pm! More info at: www.RotateTheatre.org

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, supporters, and partners, we are able to offer very low-cost tickets and workshops! In fact, ALL the tickets for ’s winter event, Stage Test: An Evening of Works in Development, are at the $5 Access Ticket level!

Join us Saturday, February 17 at 4:30pm in Studio 4C at the MYArts building! And consider becoming a Rotate Theatre donor!
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Two Weeks Away! Join for Stage Test: An Evening of Works in Development on Saturday, February 17 at 4:30pm! $5 Access Tickets available now! www.RotateTheatre.org

After the postponement due to last week’s snow storm, we are excited to announce that Stage Test: An Evening of Works in Development has been rescheduled for Saturday, February 17 at 4:30pm at the MYArts building in Madison, WI! Join us for this one-night event featuring staged readings of brand new short plays and excerpts from full-length pieces! $5 Access Tickets are available: www.RotateTheatre.org