Arts
Guest artist recital: Matt Wilson's Leap Day Trio
Matt Wilson's Leap Day Trio will perform a guest recital.
Mississippi Bend Players: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Neil Simon's hilarious semi-autobiographical portrait shows an American family in post-depression, pre-war Brooklyn, through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy. The play has wit, warmth and Simon's signature laughs.
The Mississippi Bend Players is a new theatre company based in the Quad Cities whose mission is to provide excellence in the Quad Cities theatre by producing both commercially proven works and original musical and dramatic material. The group gives students and community members the opportunity to work together on professional stage productions.
Brighton Beach Memoirs also will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 12 and 4 p.m. Aug. 13.
Mississippi Bend Players: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Neil Simon's hilarious semi-autobiographical portrait shows an American family in post-depression, pre-war Brooklyn, through the eyes of a 15-year-old boy. The play has wit, warmth and Simon's signature laughs.
The Mississippi Bend Players is a new theatre company based in the Quad Cities whose mission is to provide excellence in the Quad Cities theatre by producing both commercially proven works and original musical and dramatic material. The group gives students and community members the opportunity to work together on professional stage productions.
Brighton Beach Memoirs will also be performed on August 5, August 6, August 11, August 12, and August 13.
Mississippi Bend Players: Wait Until Dark
A blind Greenwich Village housewife becomes the target of three con men searching for heroin hidden inside a doll.
The Mississippi Bend Players is a new theatre company based in the Quad Cities whose mission is to provide excellence in the Quad Cities theatre by producing both commercially proven works and original musical and dramatic material. The group gives students and community members the opportunity to work together on professional stage productions.
Wait Until Dark will also be performed on July 22, July 23, July 28, July 29, and July 30.
Mississippi Bend Players: Zombie Prom
A 1950s horror comic book is brought to life as a musical comedy by John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe. This campy, rollicking romp takes the audience through America's Atomic Age and the Golden Age of horror comic books.
The Mississippi Bend Players is a new theatre company based in the Quad Cities whose mission is to provide excellence in the Quad Cities theatre by producing both commercially proven works and original musical and dramatic material. The group gives students and community members the opportunity to work together on professional stage productions.
Zombie Prom will also be performed on July 7, July 8, July 9, July 14, and July 15.
Mississippi Bend Players: Zombie Prom
A 1950s horror comic book is brought to life as a musical comedy by John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe. This campy, rollicking romp takes the audience through America's Atomic Age and the Golden Age of horror comic books.
The Mississippi Bend Players is a new theatre company based in the Quad Cities whose mission is to provide excellence in the Quad Cities theatre by producing both commercially proven works and original musical and dramatic material. The group gives students and community members the opportunity to work together on professional stage productions.
Zombie Prom will also be performed on July 7, July 8, July 9, July 15, and July 16.
Mississippi Bend Players: Zombie Prom
A 1950s horror comic book is brought to life as a musical comedy by John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe. This campy, rollicking romp takes the audience through America's Atomic Age and the Golden Age of horror comic books.
The Mississippi Bend Players is a new theatre company based in the Quad Cities whose mission is to provide excellence in the Quad Cities theatre by producing both commercially proven works and original musical and dramatic material. The group gives students and community members the opportunity to work together on professional stage productions.
Zombie Prom will also be performed on July 8, July 9, July 14, July 15, and July 16.
Camp Creamery Performance
The Old Creamery Theatre in Amana, Iowa has been creating theatre productions for young audiences since 1971. Augustana alumna Jackie McCall '98 will bring Camp Creamery to Augustana this summer.
Camp Creamery participants will present two performances on the Brunner Main Stage (June 23 at 7 p.m. and June 24 at 2 p.m.).
Signature Series: Madison String Trio
The Madison String Trio will perform for the Signature Series, sponsored by the Quad City Symphony and WVIK, Quad Cities NPR.
The trio includes violinist QCSO concertmaster and violinist Naha Greenholtz, violist Vicki Powell and cellist Madeleine Kabat, all graduates of the Juilliard School.
Members of the trio have also studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory, and Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, and have appeared as soloists with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony and the Madison Symphony Orchestra among others.
See event page here.
Student voice recital: Jon Hansen and Michael Njus
Senior Jon Hansen and junior Michael Njus will perform a vocal recital.