New! Acting classes for kids of all ages!

This winter we're kicking off the Englert School for Performing Arts, under the direction of Kitty Forsythe. Kids of nearly all ages can get top-notch acting instruction right in the heart of Iowa City. For more information, registration forms & teacher bios, just click here!

Gaelic Storm

Friday, March 19th at 8:00 PM

Gaelic Storm continue to broaden the musical horizons of the Celtic music genre by creating compelling originals and fresh arrangements steeped in Irish traditional melody and acoustic instrumentation combined with their unique blend of world rhythms. They have thundered onto stages all over the world, and to the top of the Billboard charts!
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History Of The World Part 1

Sunday, March 21st at 7 PM

Mel Brooks's comic genius is unleashed in spades in this episodic spoof of history's seminal moments (narrated by Orson Welles), which begins with a brilliant send-up of the cinematic classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Brooks goes on to lampoon the Stone Age, the Roman Empire, the Spanish Inquisition and ends with a clever takeoff on the French Revolution. The all-star-cast includes Gregory Hines, Madeleine Kahn, Dom DeLuise and Harvey Korman.
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Bob & Tom Comedy All-Stars

Friday March 26 at 7:30pm and 9:45pm

Many of the best comedians in North America appear daily on The Bob & Tom Radio Show. A number of these comedians are headliners and often have TV credentials ranging from Comedy Central to Late Night with David Letterman. The Canadian Mist Bob & Tom Comedy All-Stars Tour was created to bring a rotating ensemble of these great headline comedians t single stages across America
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Highlander

Sunday, March 28th at 7 PM

Director Russell Mulcahy's film became a paragon of modern action fantasy, giving rise to legions of warrior fans who follow the story of Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), one of the few surviving members of a clan of immortals who've been battling for centuries. The evil Kurgan (Clancy Brown) wants to kill a forlorn but determined Connor for good in modern-day New York, but an immortal mentor (Sean Connery) provides help in flashbacks.
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Booker T

Wednesday, March 31st at 8:00 PM

2010 Mission Creek Festival - with Special Guest JJ Grey. Hammond B3 alchemist Booker T Jones is one America's most prolific, distinguished and instantly recognizable musical forces. With his Memphis Group (the MGs) cohorts, Jones laid out the blueprint for the fabled Stax sound and reaped his own rewards with a string of hits. Along the way, he's also scored numerous films and is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Greg Brown With Pieta Brown

Saturday, April 3rd at 8:00 PM

2010 Mission Creek Festival Greg Brown's songwriting has been lauded by many, and his songs have been performed by Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana, Michael Johnson, Shawn Colvin, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. He has also recorded more than a dozen albums and has emerged as one of Iowa's most well-loved songwriters.
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Arabesque Music Ensemble

Sunday April 4, 2010 at 6:00pm

The Arab Student Association presents the world renown Arabesque Music Ensemble comprised of six professionally trained musicians. This performance will bring a taste of classical Middle Eastern music to Iowa quoted by many prestigious newspapers and working with well known musicians. A once in a lifetime opportunity to experience middle eastern art in the form of music. We hope to see you all there!
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Chick Corea

Sunday, April 11th at 7:30 PM

Considering the staggering volume of his recorded output over the past 40 years, it is no overstatement to call Chick Corea one of the most prolific composers of the second half of the 20th century. From avant-garde to bebop, from children’s songs to straight-ahead, from hard-hitting fusion to heady forays into classical, Chick has touched an astonishing number of musical bases in his illustrious career while maintaining a standard of excellence that is simply uncanny.
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LOUD & RICH

Tuesday April 13 at 8:00pm

Loud & Rich is Loudon Wainwright III & Richard Thompson
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Wall Street

Sunday, April 18th at 7 PM

Enterprising stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) falls under the enticing spell of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), an unabashedly greedy Wall Street arbitrageur. Gekko takes Fox under his wing, tutoring his charge in the unscrupulous tactics that put the corporate raider on top. But when Gekko embroils his protégé in an insider-trading scheme that may risk the jobs of kith and kin, Fox develops a conscience and decides to turn the tables.
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Joe Bonamassa

Friday, May 7th at 8:00 PM

Guitarist magazine proclaims Joe Bonamassa "The New King of Blues." A child prodigy, Bonamassa was finessing Stevie Ray Vaughan licks when he was seven, and by age 12 he was opening for B.B. King. His ability to connect with live concert audiences is transformational. Sponsored by ICC Area Convention & Visitor's Bureau.
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The Princess Bride

Sunday, May 9th at 7 PM

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn) and the dashing Westley (Cary Elwes) must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen (Christopher Guest), murderous princes (Chris Sarandon), Sicilians (Wallace Shawn) and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing. Fred Savage and Peter Falk co-star.
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Revenge Of The Nerds

Sunday, May 16th at 7 PM

After enduring abuse from cocky frat boys and their snotty girlfriends, freshmen nerds Lewis (Robert Carradine) and Gilbert (Anthony Edwards) start a fraternity of brainy and socially inept cohorts in order to wreak revenge. The antics culminate in an annual fraternity decathlon in which burping skills are coveted.
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Raising Arizona

Sunday, May 23rd at 7 PM

Ex-cop Edwina "Ed" McDonnough (Holly Hunter) and her ex-con husband, H.I. (Nicolas Cage), are devastated when they learn they can't have children. Not to worry: They reckon they'll just "borrow" one of furniture magnate Nathan Arizona's (Trey Wilson) new quintuplets. Featuring oodles of idiosyncratic humor, this kidnapping farce from Joel Coen and Ethan Coen is a deft nod to classic screwball comedy. John Goodman and William Forsythe co-star.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

Sunday, May 30th at 7 PM

Four star-crossed lovers -- Hermia (Anna Friel), Lysander (Dominic West), Demetrius (Christian Bale) and Helena (Calista Flockhart) -- run into the forest in pursuit of one another in director Michael Hoffman's adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedic love story. Amid the feuding fairies Oberon (Rupert Everett) and Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer), mischievous Puck (Stanley Tucci) sets loose a potion that wreaks romantic havoc on everyone.
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