Performing Arts Center and Community Theatre Hire New Director

The Performing Arts Center of Rapid City and Black Hills Community Theatre have announced that Nicholas Johnson of WYO Theater in Sheridan, WY will serve as their new joint executive director. “Nick will be a tremendous addition to the Rapid City arts community and the community as a whole,” said Kristol McKie, president of the board of directors for the …

BHCT Presents “The Miracle Worker”

Immortalized on stage and screen by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, this classic tells the story of Annie Sullivan and her student, blind and mute Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker dramatizes the volatile relationship between the lonely teacher and her charge. Trapped in a secret, silent world, unable to communicate, Helen is violent, spoiled, almost sub-human, and treated by her …

SDSM&T in collaboration with BHCT Presents DEAD HENRY

The South Dakota School of Mines &  Technology’s Hard Rockin’ Drama Club presents the play Dead Henry, by Sioux Falls Playwright, Mr. Lance DeRoos  in the new Studio Theater of the Performing Arts Center of Rapid City  (South Street entrance) on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (Mar 4, 5, and 6).   Enter the world of playwright, Henry O’Connor, who is plagued …

BLACK HILLS SYMPHONY EXPLORES “THE FORCE OF DESTINY”

BLACK HILLS SYMPHONY EXPLORES “THE FORCE OF DESTINY” MARCH 1, 2014 The Black Hills Symphony Orchestra will perform two symphonic masterworks that explore the personal confrontation with fate – Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 and the overture to Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino” — at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1, in the Rapid City Performing Arts Center, 601 Columbus St. The …

BHCT Presents “Pirates of Penzance”

Gilbert and Sullivan are the undisputed masters of comic operetta and the proud parents of the modern musical. That their works are more in demand today than when they were created over a century ago is ample proof of their lasting brilliance. when the hero of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE was but a boy, his father instructed his nurse to …