

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Next to Normal
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 16 Nov, 2025 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Next to Normal

By Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt

The hardest battle is the one you can't see

Next to Normal tells the story of Diana Goodman, a suburban wife and mother who suffers from bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family.  The courageous and deeply moving story provides agony as well as ecstasy, darkness as well as light.  Next to Normal won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2010.  It also received 11 Tony nominations and won Best Original Score, Best Lead Actress in a Musical, and Best Orchestrations.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ames/next-to-normal/200028941560837
- **Event Categories**: art, theatre, performances, live-music, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 13

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://amescommunitytheater.thundertix.com/events/247572/performances?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=ames-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Ames
- **state**: IA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 120 Abraham Dr, Ames, IA, United States, Iowa 50014
- **lat**: 42.02107
- **long**: -93.67554
- **full address**: 120 Abraham Dr, Ames, IA, United States, Iowa 50014

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Ames Community Theater (ACTORS) (https://allevents.in/org/ames-community-theater-actors/26446617)

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: banner
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/b9455d1a41179cefdb8e17297dacb912bdc7a3899041de62cd82bd777c6f5062-rimg-w1200-h449-dc4833ab-gmir?v=1763010571
- **Alt text**: thumbnail
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/dd5c6932561badf784f4ec225124b3314af4520d7a0e0c23c8577d027542c5b1-rimg-w300-h300-dc4833aa-gmir?v=1763010571

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 16 Nov, 2025 at 02:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 120 Abraham Dr, Ames, IA, United States, Iowa 50014
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Ames Community Theater (ACTORS)
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, theatre, performances, live-music, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Next to Normal ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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