Retiring teacher, coach urges Colony grads to ‘find their 68’
By Jeremiah Bartz Frontiersman.com A football coach using a hockey reference as the centerpiece for his keynote address may
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VPA gearing up for Season 47
By Jacob Mann Frontiersman.com WASILLA — Valley Performing Arts members are ready for a busy season featuring an extra production.
Q&A with VPA Executive Director discussing “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” and the return to live theater
By Jacob Mann Frontiersman.com WASILLA— Valley Performing Arts Executive Director Garry Forrester recently participated in a question and answer
VPA preparing for opening weekend of ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’
By Jacob Mann Frontiersman.com WASILLA — Valley Performing Arts is preparing to unveil a local rendition of “The Best Christmas
Wasilla High School opens ‘Little Women’ Thursday
By Jacob Mann Frontiersman.com WASILLA — Wasilla High School is putting on its first live theater production in two years
Metallica’s first show of 2020 premiering at Alaska State Fairgrounds and other drive-in venues across the country
By Jacob Mann Frontiersman.com WASILLA— One of the most famous names in rock history recently confirmed their return to
The show must go on, later: VPA postpones last show before summer break
By Jacob Mann Frontiersman.com WASILLA — The Valley Performing Arts Center had to postpone their latest production, “Noises Off” due
The Valley’s ever evolving theater scene
By Jacob Mann Frontiersman.com WASILLA — The theater scene appears to be alive and well in the Mat-Su Valley,
Snow Child musical cancelled in Alaska
by JACOB MANN Frontiersman.com ANCHORAGE— Eowyn Ivey’s debut novel and Pulitzer prize nominated story, the “Snow Child” has
PALMER BUZZ: Who Let the Girls Out?
by BARBARA HUNT Frontiersman.com Who Let the Girls Out? —This weekend is a yearly celebration of spring in the
Saving Larry Poppins
By JACOB MANN Frontiersman.com PALMER — Longtime Valley Performing Arts volunteer and founding member Larry Bottjen has donned just about
And Then There Were None
Matt Hickman Of all the directors in the Valley Performing Arts rotation, probably none is as punctilious, loquacious and just
Grandfather Knows Best: Perseverance Theatre’s They Don’t Talk Back at the Sydney Laurence Theatre
Geoff Kirsch When I was about 6 or 7, my paternal grandfather—who, as a Jewish kid growing up in