Creating a community theater in Cottage Grove, MN

Plan B Paper. 2012. Master of Science in Education-Fine Arts--University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Communication Studies and Theatre Arts Department. 68 leaves. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-41).A community theater seeks to represent the community in which it creates theater. This research project examined two questions; would there be enough interest to start a community theater in Cottage Grove and how does one start a theater? These two questions became the two phases of the project. The first phase examined whether or not there would be enough interest to even start a community theater. This was done through an on-line survey and a community informational meeting. Phase two explored the process of creating a community theater, finding and creating a board, developing a business model, acquiring funding, and choosing a performance