VenuWorks to Program Historic Ingersoll Theater

Ingersoll Theater owners Connor Delaney and Steve Peters announced today that VenuWorks would be bringing the programming of the Ingersoll in-house effective the first of the year. VenuWorks, based in Ames, manages over sixty performing arts, sports, and convention venues nationally. Peters founded that company nearly thirty years ago.

Max Wellman, co-owner of Des Moines-based jazz & cabaret club Noce, was brought on along with longtime collaborator Napoleon Douglas, to provide the initial programming for the historic theater reopening December 31st.

“We are extremely grateful to Max and Napoleon for helping us launch the Ingersoll, booking all of our events through February,” said Peters. “They did a great job – a job made more difficult by the fact that construction delays forced a thirty-day postponement in our planned opening date. No one knows the Des Moines music scene better than they do, and their input has been invaluable.” 

“We appreciate the opportunity to have worked with Connor and Steve in re-imagining the new Ingersoll, and we are pleased to have been a part of its rebirth,” commented Wellman. “Our engagement for the pre-opening months and into the new year has been a challenging but productive process for all of us. We are proud of the many artists we were able to bring to the opening months of the renovated Ingersoll.”   

Going forward, staff in VenuWorks’ Ames office, together with the VenuWorks staff managing the theater, will collaborate on programming. “We will continue to offer concerts by premiere artists,” add Peters. “And by spring we will begin presenting top quality stage comedies and musical theater productions that will play more extended multi-week runs.”

Information on all upcoming Ingersoll events can be found at www.theingersoll.com .