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More than three years after a fire razed Triumvirate Theatre’s building in Nikiski, construction is underway on a new playhouse in Kenai. The local theater group says the new building wouldn’t be possible without the help of community support and state funding.

This week, Soldotna High School’s auditorium is alive with “The Sound of Music.” Triumvirate Theatre is staging a production of the Broadway classic, which follows a governess who falls in love with a naval captain during the height of Austria’s Nazi takeover.

The Kenai Performers, a local theater company, is staging “Murder at the Renaissance Faire.” The murder mystery, as its title suggests, is a play within a play that follows a cast in an ever-decaying Renaissance fair.

The wacky, world-renowned jukebox musical “Mamma Mia!” is coming to Nikiski Middle/High School. Set in a Greek island paradise, the show couples popular ABBA songs of the 1970s with antics and conflict.

The Kenai Performers will soon stage a Neil Simon play, “The Odd Couple,” in a women-led adaptation. The show, which takes place in the 1980s, will run the next three weekends.

Treefort Theatre, a Kenai Peninsula-based performing arts group, will soon stage the Kenai Art Center’s first-ever theatrical production. “Marian (or the True Tale of Robin Hood),” is a teen comedy and serves as the inspiration for this month’s art installation.

In a finance committee meeting intended to inform the school board and public about different expenditures, members discussed the costs of extracurriculars, pools and theater techs. The school district is facing a large deficit for the second year in a row, and has warned of possible cuts.

The Kenai Performers will soon stage a musical version of the gothic classic "Jekyll and Hyde." An evocative tale of a man living a double life, the drama will bring to light the epic struggle between good and evil.

Triumvirate Theatre's building burned down in 2021. Since then, the nonprofit theater company has raised millions to build a new playhouse, which will be celebrated with a Saturday groundbreaking event in Kenai.

As the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District faces a large deficit for the next fiscal year, the school board is considering cuts to pools and theaters. Students, parents and teachers showed up the board's meeting Monday to protest those cutbacks.