“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.
Old Creamery Theatre presents “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” a hilarious musical that celebrates and pokes fun at relationships at every stage. But cast members Emily Seibert and Morgan McDowell say that while the musical has been around for a while, this version has brand new content, updated for how dating and relationships …
The jazz hands come out 8 just seconds into the show as Alisabeth Von Presley and Jen Boettger describe Follies 2019, “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.” The Follies is the only show of its kind in the nation, with a multi-generational cast of over 100 singers, dancers, and actors, performing an original show that will feature …
Orchestra Iowa’s Tim Hankewich joins Dennis for “String Theory,” the next concert that features, wait for it… Strings. A shocker, we know. But as the Orchestra gives the brass the night off, they welcome classical guitarist Ana Vidovic, who will perform Rodrigo’s famous Concierto de Aranjuez, famous from the movies and a well-known Miles Davis …
John Rapson of the UI School of Music’s Jazz Studies Program brings his powerful multi-media show “Hot Tamale Louie” to Cedar Rapids for the very first time on March 23, 7:30 at Coe’s Sinclair Auditorium. John tells Dennis that the story was inspired by a 2016 New Yorker article about Zarif Khan, an Afghan immigrant …
