Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop

a program of the Manhattan Arts Center in Manhattan, Kansas

Category: 2018

  • An echo in your head.o

    An echo in your head.o

    An echo is a reflection of sound. A memory could be a reflection of anything. An echo is a present reflection of a past occurrence; a degraded version with a quality that diminishes with every return. A memory is just the same.  “How could I ever forget?” Words laughed while gathered and sharing memories. How…

  • 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…

  • 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…