Reserve Your Tickets By Clicking Here For Story Pirates on Saturday, March 11th at 2PM! These are no ordinary pirates. You won’t find them boarding frigates or hoisting the Jolly Roger, and the treasure they seek is not gold doubloons. These are the Story Pirates, a group of improv artists, musicians, educators, and professional…
Register for this free event on Saturday, February 18th at 8pm here: Tickets Set at the dawn of the Cuban Revolution, Face to the Sun is a play written by burgeoning playwright Alison Minami. The story follows Hamada, a Japanese Cuban man, as he must decide whether to uproot his family – including his Cuban…
Americana is defined by Wikipedia as “artifacts, or a collection of artifacts, related to the history, geography, folklore, and cultural heritage of the United States.” And that is exactly what self-proclaimed Retro Daddy, Charles Phoenix, brings to the drop leaf coffee table: a love for the things from America’s past that demonstrate what life was…
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble keeps it all in the family. Literally. Seven of the members of the band are brothers who were raised together on the Southside of Chicago. Their music is unique, bringing jazz, funk, hip hop, rock, and even reggae, together in one mighty sound. To begin to understand their sound and how it…
From the very first tinkling notes on the piano, the air in the room buzzes with electricity. The steady throbbing boom-boom-boom of the stand up bass joins in, mixing seamlessly with the bold, brassy tones of a sax. Warm and inviting jazz fills the air, pausing for half a breath as a clear, sweet voice…
The plaintive wail of a clarinet fills the air, its wordless voice telling a story, taking you on a journey. Soon the rhythmic thump of a stand up bass joins in along with the deep throated moan of a trombone. The sounds join together, picking up speed, morphing from a mournful hymn into a joyful…
When Hal Holbrook first picked up the mantle of American literary legend Mark Twain, he could not have known it was one he would wear for more than 62 years. And it is this performance as Mark Twain that has become one of the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of theater. Hal Holbrook,…
A SEED (Ichi-Ryu Man-Bai) is a show inspired by Japanese mythology about the humble beginnings of our universe. It tells the story about how life-giving grain first came to exist in the world, and how one, single seed can produce enough to sustain all life on our planet. The underlying message is one of gratitude…
Sometimes the path you set out to take isn’t the path you were meant to follow. Such was the story of Dana Louise, the frontwoman for the indie folk band Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds. As the daughter of of Ezra Idlet, half of the grammy-nominated folk/rock duo Trout Fishing in America, Dana…
Think you can’t take your kids to watch a play at a theater? Think again! Coming this January to the James R. Armstrong theatre is The Greatest Pirate Story Never Told, an interactive musical about pirates, swashbuckling, and a cantankerous sea witch having a bad day. The Greatest Pirate Story Never Told bills itself as…