Guest Productions

Following is a directory of companies and groups who offer performances at the Lawrence Arts Center. Click links to learn more about their current productions.

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Americana Music Academy

Conveniently located at the southern end of downtown Lawrence and now on the west side of Downtown Topeka, The Americana Music Academy offers group and private music lessons in a relaxed setting with some of the region's most notable pickers, players, singers and songwriters. In addition, Americana provides Music Therapy for the disabled community in Lawrence and Topeka as well as a rich community of musicians of all ages, styles and musical abilities.

Americana is a focal point for musicians throughout the region: We jam together, expand each other's musical horizons and do whatever we can to spread the word about America's roots music -- blues, jazz, bluegrass, rock, folk and all the other musical traditions that feed into and express the complexity of our unique culture. We come from all walks of life and all economic strata -- our connective tissue is the music we make and appreciate together.

Card Table Theatre

Card Table theatre was founded in Lawrence, Kansas in 1997 by a loose collective of former K.U. theatre students and their special friends. Over the course of the last fourteen years, Card Table has produced over twenty shows. Card Table’s Production history includes established plays, like David Mamet’s American Buffalo, new works, and the Lawrence underground hit The Victor Continental Show.

EMU Theatre

EMU Theatre Inc is an independent theatre group based in Lawrence Kansas. EMU was founded in 1998 by a collective of actors, writers and performers dedicated to creating theatre which fosters a spirit of cooperation and artistic growth among its practitioners, and a spirit of aesthetic adventure in its audience.

Fishtank Performance Studio

The Fishtank Performance Studio, curated by co-founder and Kansas City theatre artist Heidi Van, develops works from concept to concert by providing a low risk, low cost environment that nurtures the development of new work and inspires theatrical entrepreneurship.

Lady Or The Tiger Productions

Lady Or The Tiger Productions is a new company featuring improv comedy, opera tragedy, and many uncommon possibilities in between, brought to you by the logistical wizardry and multifaceted imagination of one Ms. Jenifer Harmon.

Point B Dance Art in Motion

Art in Motion is the resident dance company for Point B Dance. We have a Fall semester AIM company, a Spring semester AIM company, and an AIM Youth Company.

Sustainable Theatre Project

Founded in 2009, Sustainable Theatre Project is a nonprofit collaborative ensemble with the mission to create entertaining, affordable and socially relevant theatre for the city of Austin, while maintaining the highest possible standards of sustainability as budget and all practical means allow. STP seeks to produce a wide diversity of theatrical genres steeped in fine-tuned dedication to quality and excellence. STP's foundational belief is that environmentally sustainable practice creates potential for an extreme efficiency that in turn leads to organizational sustainability, offering greater pay to artists, increased production quality and lower ticket prices. STP seeks to address the wasteful habits of the theatre and works toward opening a new zero waste theatre venue for all the established and emerging theatre companies in Austin and their audiences to call home. We believe that a respect for the environment, the earth, our home, is the highest gesture of respect to the human being. We believe the vitality of the art of theatre can be strengthened and cemented by applying sustainable practices. Our commitment to artistic excellence is equal to our commitment to sustainable practices.

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