• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / Human Interest / New play makes debut in Los Angeles & Webster City

New play makes debut in Los Angeles & Webster City

November 12, 2016 By Radio Iowa Contributor

Phil Olson

Phil Olson

The Midwestern premiere of a new comedy called, “A Nice Family Christmas,” was held last night in Webster City.

Playwright Phil Olson, who lives in Los Angeles, wrote the series of “Don’t Hug Me” musicals that follow the lives of oddball characters in fictional Bunson Bay, Minnesota.

Olson says the new Christmas play was tested in Webster City last February before a live audience.

“There’s just nothing better for a playwright than to have that kind of great response,” Olson says. “I had the greatest time. The notes are good. I’ll do rewrites on it based on things I need to change and fix, but it was spectacular, the response. It was like a sit-com laugh track. I’ve never seen that before.”

Olson is a national award-winning playwright with 14 published plays that have been performed in more than 300 cities around the U.S. and Canada.

Olson is an Edina, Minnesota, native and says the new comedy is loosely based on real life and experiences with his own family on Christmas Eve.

“I wrote this one many years ago,” Olson says. “We were home for Christmas and my mother announced or it was discovered that she had cancer, so, I kind of wrote this for my mom.” The play also debuted in Los Angeles last night. It will be performed onstage this weekend and next weekend at the Webster City Community Theatre.

Reporting by Pat Powers, KQWC, Webster City

 

 

 

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Human Interest, News

Featured Stories

Governor signs child care expansion into law

Iowa seniors have until July 1 to apply for new property tax break

Smoke from distant fires creates colorful sunrise in Iowa

DOT’s Motor Vehicle Enforcement Division to merge into State Patrol

Iowa’s governor approves liability limits for trucking industry

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Radio Iowa/Baseball Coaches Association High School Poll 5/29/23

Iowa AD Gary Barta announces retirement

Iowa to visit Creighton in Gavitt Tipoff Games

Iowa and Indiana collide Thursday at B1G baseball tournament

Former Hawkeye joins Lisa Bluder’s staff at Iowa

More Sports

Archives

Copyright © 2023 · Learfield News & Ag, LLC