Des Moines Playhouse

TheatreMidwest presents The Gun Show

March 26th - 28th, 2026

Marshall & Julie Linn Studio Theatre

TheatreMidwest presents this project at The Playhouse as part of its ongoing regional and national touring activities.

Award-winning playwright E.M. Lewis tells the story of America’s relationship with guns through the prism of her own personal experiences. She starts during her youth in a rural farming community where she learns about guns from her dad, has her first date with a special person at a shooting range, and then, as life’s journey takes her to ‘big cities’ like Los Angeles and New York, finds herself in more complicated, less upbeat, and sometimes dangerous, gun situations. Using a light, often hilarious touch, Lewis takes us on a 45-minute journey across the wide social and political terrain of America’s most dangerous pastime with brutal honesty and keen understanding. Leaning neither right nor left, The Gun Show jumps into the middle of the gun control debate and asks, “Can we just have a conversation about this?”

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