Reviving the classics of yesterday, creating the classics of tomorrow.

Critics Rave about RTI's production of Crowns.

“Delightful…Glorious…Infectious…Irresistible”
~ Des Moines Register , Jeffrey Bruner

“Masterful…Brilliant…Soulful singing…Fabulously eye-catching…A HIT!”
~ ArtScene Magazine, Kimberly Busbee

Reservations strongly encouraged. Fufilling RTI's vision to bring outstanding, professional quality theater at an affordable price to undeserved communities throughout Iowa, we are currently setting up tours of our outstanding production of Crowns.   RTI's Crowns is also available to communities throughout the MidWest. To bring RTI's production of Crowns to your community call RTI at 515-266-0560 or send an email to info@dmtheater.com

RTI's critically acclaimed production of
Samuel Beckett's ENDGAME IS AVAILABLE FOR TOUR to colleges and universities.

To bring RTI's production of Samuel Beckett's darkly comic masterpiece to your college or university call RTI at 515-266-0560 or send an email to info@dmtheater.com

Raves for RTI's Endgame

" Repertory Theater of Iowa explodes out of the gates with Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" delivering an intensity seldom seen on Central Iowa stages....rock solid director, cast and production team...irresistibly compelling...desolate, often humorous, theatrical ballet...Marvelous physicality and timing...captivating..If this is the caliber of productions RTI plans to share with Iowa theater patrons, then bring it on."

       ~ ArtScene Magazine, John Busbee

"Pitch perfect cast...The theater's production goes for the knock-out and succeeds...Leonardi, who literally shakes the stage with his performance, gives a face and voice to the human desire to cheat death, to outwit the universe, to pick up life's toys and play another game...Lynner's turn as Hamm channels the frustration and anger that flood a life if it is unable to breathe...Gouran and Skram bring temporary comfort with their humorous, playful and tender performances."

CityView , Andrew Brink

Kick your holiday season off laughing with the residents of Tuna, Texas in the Repertory Theatre of Iowa's production of A Tuna Christmas.

"If you like someone, buy them roses... If you love someone, buy them tickets to A TUNA CHRISTMAS"
-- Austin American-Statesman

"A TUNA CHRISTMAS delivers a stockingful of laughs!"
-- Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle

"A Comic Masterpiece!"
-- KGO-AM/ABC, San Francisco

About the play and production

Joseph Leonardi and Rich Richards dash audiences through a blizzard of laughs as they play all 24 characters in this hilarious “night before Christmas” comedy set in the third smallest town in Texas. At the heart of the play is the warm tale of a fictitious town 24 hours before Christmas. The eccentric home spun residents spin out of control as they attempt to cope with several traumas--the competitive spirit of the annual Christmas yard-decorating contest; the fear of the illusive sabotaging Christmas phantom, and stress from the busy Smut Snatchers group which has taken upon itself to clean-up the script of the community theater's production of "A Christmas Carol." A guaranteed laugh riot for the whole family!