Fleeing from the brutal conflict of World War II, young Kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima lands on an island. While his plane is set to be repaired, he comes face to face with something far worse: a massive creature the Islanders call “Godzilla.” Released last year on Dec.1 and directed byRead More

“Playing With Fire” is a play that follows the events after the story of Frankenstein. It was performed at DMACC’s Black Box Theater the last weekend of September and the first weekend of October. The problem with me writing an article about a month after production is that you willRead More

Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity. This November, DMACC Theatre is performing “Merge,” a dramatized look into the rise and fall of Atari, a video game-based company that saw its peak in the early 1980s. Director of “Merge,” Brittany Rebhuhn, gives insight into this retro play. Read More

Ask me on any given day what my favorite movie is, and I am going to say “Avatar.” I’ve had that same response since 2009 when the movie was first released. I was fascinated by the potential for “real” avatar technology and I fell in love with a culture thatRead More

I never watch movies twice, like ever. And if I do, it’s usually years after I watched it the first time, never the next day. But there was one movie last year that changed that pattern for me, and I’ve seen it four times now. “Glass Onion” has been onRead More

Halloween may seem like it’s all about costumes and trick or treating. This holiday has some history; it became popular in the early 1900s with roots in pagan beliefs. About 2,000 years ago, Halloween marked the Celtic New Year, originally called Samhain, which means “summer’s end” in Gaelic. With HalloweenRead More

The DMACC Ankeny Theater performed “The Turn of the Screw” six days in October. The play was written by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James. It is directed by Carmen McDermott. The performances are free to attend and watch and held in building five in the Black BoxRead More

The Slaughterhouse: It’s a personal favorite and each year has something new to offer! The slaughterhouse reenacts the bone-chilling story of a family based out of the book, “The Biggs: A Family Affair: A Tell-All Account of America’s Most Heinous Cannibals.” Staff will be taking COVID safety measures as directedRead More