The Arts Council of Central Louisiana presents a film screening of “Lift” on March 21 at 7PM at the Kress Theatre Hearn Stage. There will be a brief Q&A session with the director, David Petersen after the screening.
Filmed over ten years, LIFT shines a spotlight on the invisible story of homelessness in America through the eyes of a group of young homeless and home-insecure ballet dancers in New York City. After performing all over the world, ballet dancer Steven Melendez returns to the Bronx shelter where he grew up to give back to his community, offering a New York Theatre Ballet workshop to children. His traumatic reaction to the shelter from his childhood sends him on an unexpected journey with three kids to reckon with a past he had escaped from through ballet. As young dance students, Victor, Yolanssie and Sharia face the same chasm of home insecurity that long separated Steven from his audience and makes the arts inaccessible to so many kids who share his background. The children he mentors offer him insight into turning a hidden trauma into dance, and together they make an aristocratic art form into an expression all their own.
Doors open at 6PM
Run Time: approx. 87 minutes
Tickets – $10, Free for Students
Location: Hearn Stage at the Kress Theatre ADDRESS: 1102 3rd St. Alexandria
Location: Forest Hill, LA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/p/Louisiana-Nursery-Festival-100090590150287/
Location: Martin Performing Arts Center.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/1557745841528350/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[]%7D
Welcome to Bolton Academy Theatre’s vibrant production of High School Musical: On Stage! This engaging performance brings together the performers of Bolton Academy to reimagine the beloved story of teamwork, self-discovery, and chasing your dreams.
With toe-tapping numbers, unforgettable characters, and a spirit of inclusivity, join us as we embark on this high-energy journey filled with music, laughter, and heartwarming moments that remind us all to “stick to the status quo” while daring to “break free” and follow our dreams.
Sit back, enjoy the show, and cheer on these remarkable young performers as they shine in the spotlight!
Tickets: $17.50
Bolton Academy students and RPBS Teachers are free with ID.
Location: Bolton Academy Auditorium ADDRESS: 2101 Vance Ave. Alexandria
Come and enjoy an evening at the theater as Holy Savior Menard presents their spring musical, Guys and Dolls. Tickets available at www.i2tickets.com for shows on 3/21 (7 PM), 3/22 (7 PM) and 3/23 (2 PM).
Location: Coughlin - Saunders Theater ADDRESS: 1202 3rd Street Alexandria
Website: https://www.i2tickets.com
See the legendary Marshall Tucker Band at the Laborde Earles Entertainment Center on Friday, March 21! Tickets go on sale Friday, January 24 at 10 AM.
The Marshall Tucker Band came together as a young, hungry, and quite driven six-piece outfit in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1972, having duly baptized themselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it inscribed on a key to their original rehearsal space — and they’ve been in tune with tearing it up on live stages both big and small all across the globe ever since. Plus, the band’s mighty music catalog, consisting of more than 20 studio albums and a score of live releases, has racked up multi-platinum album sales many times over.
A typically rich MTB setlist is bubbling over with a healthy dose of hits like the heartfelt singalong “Heard It in a Love Song,” the insistent pleading of “Can’t You See” (the signature tune of MTB’s late co-founding lead guitarist and then-principal songwriter Toy Caldwell), the testifying “Fire on the Mountain,” the wanderlust gallop of “Long Hard Ride,” and the explosive testimony of “Ramblin,’” to name but a few.
Indeed, the secret ingredient to the ongoing success of The Marshall Tucker Band’s influence can be seen and felt far and wide throughout many mainstream digital outlets (Netflix, Amazon, etc.). In essence, it’s this inimitable down-home sonic style that helped make the MTB the first truly progressive Southern band to grace this nation’s airwaves — the proof of which can be found within the grooves and ever-shifting gears of “Take the Highway,” the first song on their self-titled April 1973 debut album on Capricorn Records, The Marshall Tucker Band. “We had the commonality of having all grown up together in Spartanburg,” explains Gray about his original MTB bandmates, guitar wizard Toy Caldwell and his brother, bassist Tommy Caldwell, alongside rhythm guitarist George McCorkle, drummer Paul T. Riddle, and flautist/saxophonist Jerry Eubanks. “The framework for Marshall Tucker’s music is more like a spaceship than a house,” Gray continues, “because you can look out of a lot of windows and see a variety of things that show where we’ve been and what we’ve done, and how we’ve travelled through time to bring those experiences out in all of our songs.”
The Marshall Tucker Band’s influence can be felt far and wide through many respected contemporaries and the artists who’ve followed the path forged by their collective footsteps and footstomps. “MTB helped originate and personify what was to become known as Southern rock, and I was privileged to watch it all come together in the ’70s, night after night,” said the legendary late Charlie Daniels. “In fact, The Charlie Daniels Band has played more dates with The Marshall Tucker Band over the past years than any other band we’ve ever worked with. Even after all these years — after the tragedies, the miles, the personnel changes, and the many developments in the music business.” Daniels added that he never got tired of seeing his MTB brothers on the road: “Whenever Doug Gray walks into my dressing room with that big ol’ smile of his and then we hug each other and sit and talk for a while, the evening is complete.”
Location: The Laborde Earles Entertainment Center (adjacent to the Coliseum) ADDRESS: 5600 Coliseum Blvd Alexandria
Website: https://rpclive.org/events/the-marshall-tucker-band-with-will-mosely-the-entertainment-center/
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