The Cedar Rapids Concert Chorale presents Handel’s landmark work “Messiah” in its 2018-19 season. But not all at once. Instead, the Chorale will break the work up into the seasons we associate it with. Part 1, which celebrates The Nativity, will be the centerpiece of “Holiday Handel,” Dec. 8 at First Lutheran Church in Cedar …
Iowa City’s Extend The Dream Foundation operates Uptown Bill’s, a coffee shop, performance hall, and meeting space named for Bill Sackter, a disabled man who moved to Iowa city with his guardian, screenwriter Barry Morrow, in the late 1970’s. Morrow told Bill’s story in a TV movie starring Mickey Rooney. Saturday, December 8, the Foundation …
RHCR Theatre presents “Christmas Memories” Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at Whipple Auditorium at the Cedar Rapids Public Library. Director and MC Matt Ford has recruited a group of singers to perform and share their own holiday memories including Tracie Hodina Van Pelt, Tracy Price, Oscar Ritchie IV, Jay Burken, Jennifer Boettger, Brian Anderson, Alicia …
Take a break from the sugary-sweet Christmas shows with a new play by Sean Christopher Lewis, “Rotten Eggnog,” at Riverside Theatre Nov. 30 – Dec. 16. It’s a “holiday comedy for the disenchanted,” as three women discuss exes, mothers-in-law, and the chaos of family gatherings when they spend the holidays at a lonely karaoke bar …
Lynne Rothrock presents her 16th Christmas Cabaret Dec. 6, 7, & 8 at Whipple Auditorium at the Cedar Rapids Public Library. As in the past, it’s a mix of music, humor, and heartwarming stories, in a style Lynne has honed over her many years performing as a cabaret singer all over the world. Lynne’s guests …
Chorale Midwest presents two holiday programs in December. “Christmas with Chorale Midwest,” featuring the full Chorale, their Chamber ensemble, Pro-Musica, a women’s chorus, and a new men’s chorus entitled… you guessed it: “Bro-Musica.” December 2 & 3 at Immaculate Conception Church. Director Bradley Barrett and Chorale member Bob Stewart tell us that The Chorale Midwest …
The year is 1958, the day of the Christmas Pageant, and anything that can go wrong, has. Church Basement Ladies to the rescue! Nikki Savitt, who has played the character of Mavis all over the country, returns to Old Creamery, joining Sean McCall and the rest of the cast in this sixth outing of the …
Dawn Jones from the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance (ICCA) is in to run down the schedule of upcoming events from www.culturalcorridor.org, and also to talk about ICCA’s annual luncheon and awards banquet, Nov. 14. More information at www.culturalcorridor.org.
