REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY'S
THE COMPLETE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABRIDGED)
THE SNOW MELTED AND WE HAVE A NEW DATE, SO LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
Friday, September 23, 7:30 pmThe Reduced Shakespeare Company premieres a brand-new championship comedy that sprints through the world of sports at record-breaking speed. Finally a profound piece of theatre for even the most intractable couch potato and sports addicted fan. As America’s infatuation with all things athletic continues, The Complete World of Sports (abridged) is a show whose time has come to Alabama–during football season!
WEAR YOUR FAVORITE TEAM'S COLORS! PRIZE AWARDED TO THE BEST DRESSED FAN!
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TONY AWARD-WINNING & LONGEST RUNNING EQUITY THEATRE IN THE NATION!
Barter Theatre Presents
CIVIL WAR VOICES
TRUE STORIES, REAL WORDS, THE MUSIC AND VOICES THAT SHAPED AMERICA
Tuesday, October 18, 7:30 pmPre-show Talk on stage at 7:00 PM
Written by James. R. Harris
With Traditional Music from the Period Arranged by Mark Hayes
The play tells passionate true stories of people who lived through the greatest conflict in our nation’s history as told in their own words and woven with traditional music of the period. One such character was the playwright’s great-great uncle Joe Harris, a cotton planter from Alabama and reluctant soldier, whose diary inspired the play.
PRICE: $39-$30
SECRET SISTERS
AMERICANA MUSIC AWARD NOMINEE FOR NEW/EMERGING ARTIST!
Thursday, November 3, 7:30 pmThe Secret Sisters are Laura and Lydia Rogers, a pair of Alabama sisters from Muscle Shoals. It was the Secret Sisters’ vocals and their love and respect for music and harmony that first caught the attention of T Bone Burnett, who signed on as Executive Producer and is releasing their debut album on his new label. As Burnett explains, “Listening to the Secret Sisters sing, you hear in their voices a sound that is timeless and of the moment. You hear the history of rural American music from the 1920’s and a reverence for every musical genre this country has produced... The Secret Sisters album is as close to pure as it gets.”
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PRICE: $29-$20
ACOUSTIC CHRISTMAS CONCERT
WITH SHOALS SINGER/SONGWRITERS WALT ALDRIDGE, GARY BAKER, LENNY LeBLANC & TEDDY GENTRY
Tuesday, December 6, 7:30 pmAlabama songwriters Walt Aldridge, Gary Baker, Lenny LeBlanc along with Teddy Gentry of the legendary group Alabama (pictured above, clockwise from top left), extend their 6th Annual acoustic Christmas special outside of the Shoals area for the 2011 Year of Music in Alabama. Over the past six years, this Invite-Only Christmas show has been a sellout tradition. These four accomplished musicians bring the stories and performances of their hit music along with the special music of Christmas.
HITS INCLUDE: “Amazed,” “Smile,” “No News,” “I Swear,” “Falling,” “I Loved Her First,” “Holding Her and Loving You,” “Above All”
PRICE: $29-$20
AN EVENING WITH RICK BRAGG
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
Thursday, December 8, 7:30 pmBook Signing To Follow
Rick Bragg is an American author and journalist known for his non-fiction books, especially those on his family in Alabama. Bragg won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1996 for his work at The New York Times. Bragg was born in Piedmont, Alabama and grew up in the small community of Possum Trot. He has authored five books: All Over but the Shoutin’, Ava’s Man, The Prince of Frogtown, I Am a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, and The Most They Ever Had. He is one of Alabama’s most popular storytellers and decorated writers as well as a recipient of the Harper Lee Award.
Related links of interest: http://www.writersforum.org/programs/harper_lee.html
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PRICE: $20-$10
A TRIBUTE TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW!
THE GRASCALS
2006 & 2007 IBMA ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR
2010 & 2011 SPBGMA'S BLUEGRASS BAND OF THE YEAR
Friday, February 3, 7:30 pm
Among the most beloved and acclaimed bands on today’s bluegrass scene, The Grascals have an appreciation for the mingling of bluegrass and country music. Vocally, the trio of Terry Eldredge, Jamie Johnson and Terry Smith cut loose on driving solo vocals and soaring trios. As an instrumental unit, The Grascals have never sounded sharper, with mandolin ace Danny Roberts, fiddler Jeremy Abshire and banjo player Kristin Scott Benson. In 2010, the Grammy-nominated Grascals joined The Rowdy Friends Tour, traveling far and wide with Hank Williams, Jr., playing before huge crowds.
Their CD 'Dance 'til Your Stockings Are Hot and Ravelin' is a musical tribute to Andy Griffith and the music he used on The Andy Griffith Show.
PRICE: $29-$20
THE CAPITOL STEPS
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! ALWAYS FRESH AND CRISPY, RIGHT FROM THE HEADLINES
Friday, March 30, 7:30 pmThe Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded over 30 albums, including their latest, Desperate Housemembers and Barackin’ Around the Christmas Tree. They’ve been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard 4 times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials.
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