Grant Wood’s legacy not only is on view at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, it’s on view every time the doors open at Theatre Cedar Rapids.
Everyone who stands onstage and behind the scenes is standing on the shoulders of Eastern Iowa’s most famous son, who gathered his close friends in 1925 to perform “Cardboard Moon” in his studio at 5 Turner Alley in Cedar Rapids.
Their efforts brought the big-city Little Theatre Movement intended to preserve community theaters to Cedar Rapids — launching a local endeavor that would evolve over the next century into Theatre Cedar Rapids, said to be the state’s largest nonprofit producing theater, and fueled this year by a $3.5 million budget.
