Revival Theatre Company presents “9 to 5,” the musical based on the movie starring Dolly Parton, who wrote all the music for the show. Director Brian Glick says while most people think of Dolly as a country musician, the score for the show runs the musical gamut; and also contains all the funny scenes that …
The Eastern Iowa Brass Band is a part of a musical tradition that goes back to British mines and factories in the 19th Century. Steve Schomburg tells Dennis about one characteristic unique to Brass Bands that requires a little extra work from tubas and other low brass. The band will perform a concert entitled “Horizons” …
Dawn Jones from the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance (ICCA) is in to run down the list of upcoming events for the weekend. If cabin fever is striking, there’s loads of theatre, music, and dance events to keep you and the family entertained. Find out more at www.culturalcorridor.org
Tiffany Johnson from Pyramid Theatre in Des Moines is the guest director for “How I Learned What I Learned” at Riverside Theatre. From the late August Wilson, one of America’s greatest playwrights and creator of the Pulitzer-Prize winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, How I Learned… is the autobiographical story of Wilson’s journey as a struggling …
Three composers, including Cedar Rapids native Robert Lindsay-Nassif, were given rare access to Grant Wood works by the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art as they worked on a commission for the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre. To aid them in creating the works that would become “Strokes of Genius,” the composers were able to view works …
The Bethel AME church in Cedar Rapids is the community’s 3rd eldest church. On February 9, the Church will host its 91st Allen Lincoln Douglas Banquet at the African American Museum of Iowa. Pastor Leoma Leigh-Williams and congregation member Slayton Thompson say the theme of the evening is “Building One Another Up and Tearing Down …
For several years now, a group of writers have been meeting at the National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids on a collection of memoirs. “Kaleidoscope” has just been released. It is a collection of seventeen pieces, that range from the late Carol Wohlleben’s story of how she founded Kirkwood’s Culinary Arts …
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art has two new exhibits. “Power and Protest” features works form the Museum’s collection depicting the behind-the-scenes work to keep people in power, and the demonstrations, marches, and rallies that speak to that power. “Power and Protest” was created as a companion to the traveling exhibit “American Visionary – John …
