Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop

a program of the Manhattan Arts Center in Manhattan, Kansas

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  • COME LEARN ABOUT MXTW AT OUR PIZZA PARTY!

    COME LEARN ABOUT MXTW AT OUR PIZZA PARTY!

    MXTW 2023 registration is now open. Come learn about the workshop, play some games, and eat some pizza at this casual information session. WHEN: Saturday, April 1 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm WHERE: Manhattan Arts Center 1520 Poyntz Ave, Manhattan KS Please wear comfortable clothes you can move in. We hope to see you there!…

  • MXTW 2018 is Starting Strong!

    MXTW 2018 is Starting Strong!

    We have 18 passionate participants and four dedicated directors who are already three sessions in to this year’s theatrical adventure. he died saying that farce is a poetic element like sorrow for example then they sang crocrocrocrocrocrocro We have tried our hands at performing some Dada and discussed the dramatic tension of Beckett’s later minimalistic…

  • MXTW is Norway Bound!

    MXTW is Norway Bound!

    We’re taking this show on the road. It is with great delight that we announce we are close enough to our fundraising goals for the Norway exchange that we will be making the trip! We have nine students and two directors who can’t wait to go show Oslo audiences our work! We have raised over…

  • NeXT/MXTW Collaborative Piece

    NeXT/MXTW Collaborative Piece

      I apologize for the quality of the images. My main HD card died on me and all I had to work with was my 8 GB extra card, so I couldn’t shoot in RAW, only JPEG. Full resolution ones are available on our Flickr.

  • We’re getting Ready for the Norway Bound fundraiser this friday!

    Hello MXTW Fans, Our Norway Bound Fundraiser is happening this Friday, March 9th at the Manhattan Arts Center! Check out these photos of our students and alumni preparing some experimentaly performance goodness for you! There is desserty goodness in the works too with our experimental theater themed dessert contest! Come see how our creative dessert…

  • Help Support MXTW

    Help Support MXTW

    We have been sending emails and making posts about some fundraisers we have going on. We have realized there may be some confusion because we are actually running two different fundraising campaigns at the moment. Raise a sustaining fund to ensure MXTW will continue into the future Raise funds to send some of the MXTW…

  • Norway Bound Fundraiser

    Norway Bound Fundraiser

    Manhattan Arts Center March 9th, 2018 | 6:30-9:00 pm Help support the Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop traveling to Oslo, Norway to complete the cultural exchange begun last summer with the Norwegian Experimental Theater Workshop. The evening will include performances by the Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop and a silent auction; light refreshments will be served. All…

  • “We Are Like Lightning Forming Our Own Path. Electrified Unification.”

    “We Are Like Lightning Forming Our Own Path. Electrified Unification.”

    Exciting things are afoot for MXTW! Last summer we embarked on a new experiment as we added an international artistic and cultural exchange opportunity to our regular workshop fun. We had some friends from Norway come for a visit, and they shared with us some new works they had created in their own experimental theater…

  • Theater of the Oppressed Workshop Performance Comes to the MAC

    Theater of the Oppressed Workshop Performance Comes to the MAC

    ANYONE INTERESTED IN EXPERIMENTAL THEATER SHOULD BE INTERESTED IN THIS: Theater of the Oppressed was created by Augusto Boal and we use many exercises from his work in our training for the workshop.  A visiting professor and practitioner of Theater of the Oppressed is leading a workshop for some K-State students next week and they…