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“The Prom” at IU Theatre

A rainbow colored archway of balloons in front of a staircase with a poster for a theatre production of The Prom
Kayte Young
Theatre-goers can pose with the rainbow ballon arch at IU Theatre's production of The Prom.

When Emma, a high schooler in small-town Indiana, is banned from bringing her girlfriend to prom, a group of Broadway has-beens swoop in to help. But their motives may not be as selfless as they appear.

That’s the premise of the latest musical produced at IU Theatre. We talk with co-directors DJ Gray and Ansley Valentine about how the show speaks to this moment.

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Alex Chambers runs WFIU’s arts desk, and produces and hosts WFIU’s Inner States, a weekly podcast and radio show about arts, culture, and ideas from southern Indiana and beyond. He’s the co-creator of How to Survive the Future, a podcast about the present, produced in partnership with Indiana Humanities. He has a PhD in American Studies, with a dissertation called Climate Violence and the Poetics of Refuge, and a book of poems called Bindings: A Preparation, about domestic life and empire. In his spare time, he teaches audio storytelling at the IU Media School. When he’s not in the woods gathering sound, you might see him out for a run on the streets of Bloomington.