The 2019 Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival takes place at the Collins Road Theatre April 12-13. Festival director Scott Chrisman is very excited to welcome back two friends of the Festival, who have gone on to have a major Hollywood hit. Scott Beck and Brian Woods, Quad Cities natives, watched their original script for “The …
The Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre premieres a brand-new work, celebrating Eastern Iowa’s hometown art legend, Grant Wood. “Strokes of Genius: The Grant Wood Operas” is three one-act original operas, each written by a composer with Iowa ties. Cedar Rapids native Robert Lindsay Nassif’s contribution is “American Gothical,” a comic look at how Wood may have …
Clear Creek/Amana High School presents the Iowa premiere of the new musical “Freaky Friday,” based on the popular Disney movies. Seniors Brie Bevans and Mikayla Tackaberry play the body-switching mother and daughter, and say playing different minds in different bodies creates a fun challenge. 7:00pm April 11, 12, 13, with a 2:00 matinee also on …
Miera Kim and Carey Bostian of Red Cedar Chamber Music welcome back the founders of Red Cedar, Jan Boland and John Dowdall for a series of concerts entitled (appropriately) “Founders Return.” The program will consist of some favorites from Jan and John’s years at Red Cedar, plus a few surprises, including a piece set to …
“The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon” works all 209 Brothers Grimm fables into one 2-hour show, coming up at RHCR Theatre in Cedar Rapids as a part of their Youth Theatre series. The cast of 20 young people race through familiar tales like Cinderella and Snow White, to bizarre and obscure stories like The Girl Without Hands …
Riverside Theatre presents the world premiere of the brand-new play, “Apple Season.” It’s the story of a woman returning to her family’s land after many years, and what happens when an encounter with an old flame conjures memories she thought she had escaped. The production is a “rolling” premiere, because two other theatres are also …
Jarrett Purdy is an Iowa City native, now finishing up his degree at the University of Iowa, who has been playing regularly in Eastern Iowa since high school. He teamed up with friends Nolan Schroeder, Jim Buennig, Joey Schnoebelen, Blake Shaw, and Christopher Jensen on his first CD “Motion and Stillness,” a disc of all-original …
Dawn Jones from the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance is in with a boatload of suggestions of funs things to do over the next week and a half. On Dawn’s list are some new plays, great jazz and a money-saving museum offer. More information on all this cool stuff at www.culturalcorridor.org.
