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October is National Arts and Humanities Month, a coast-to-coast collective celebration of culture in America. Communities across the United States are joining together to recognize the importance of arts and culture in our daily lives:
· training in acting appears to lead to memory improvement through the learning of general skills for manipulating semantic information
· correlations exist between music training and both reading acquisition and sequence learning
· teachers whose students receive regular visual arts instruction report stronger academic skills on the part of their students, including increased retention, higher levels of student confidence, and more highly developed independent thinking skills.
· the arts can free us to think outside the box, a skill that may inspire the economist, the politician and the scientist to “see” new interconnections that will foster peace and prosperity
Here at the Firehouse we bring you theater, dance, music, visual arts — everything you need to build bridges and better brains. Come connect with the Firehouse and get those neurons firing. You never know what might come of it. Hope to see you at the theater.
Storyville Detectives
Fri-Sat, October 23-24 at 7:00pm
Sat-Sun, October 24-25 at 1pm
Tickets: $12 Adults/$10 Students, Seniors and Members
Storyville Detectives is an adventure story with high spirited dance, physical comedy and flamboyant costumes. You will recognize the traditional characters in this untraditional setting and learn some unexpected lessons along the way. With interactive high tech video projections, Agent 11 gets his orders to make Storyville a happy and safe place. If he completes his objective he will be rewarded with a big promotion. Since 1998, Stacey Fix and Theater Workshop have created strong, vibrant experiences that allow students and families to work together to develop an ensemble and create an expressive theater production.
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Fri, October 30 at 11:00pm
Tickets: $15 All seats, Includes Bag of Props!
Let’s do the time warp again and watch the film version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show! Who would have thought? Certainly not young-and-upcoming actors Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, and Tim Curry! But thirty years later, their campy little jaunt to the unique world of Dr. Frank-n-Furter – that sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania – has become a legendary cult favorite. Costumes encouraged! Narrator to lead audience participation.
In the Spirit of Music: An Evening of Live Music, Humor & Fun
Thu, November 5 at 7:30pm
Tickets: $20 All seats
Come and share in this spectacular evening of music, humor and fun to benefit the Women’s Interfaith Spiritual Encounter (WISE) Annual Conference. Contributions are tax deductible. The evening will feature performances by Temple Thieves, Lesley Smith, Meg Rayne, Sarah Pirtle, Patty Barkas and Denise DeSimone, with music by Ken Clark and Steve Chagaris.
Random Acts 7
Sat, November 7 at 8:00pm
Tickets: $12 – All seats
Can a play be conceived, written, directed, rehearsed, and produced in 24 hours? YES! Join us for the wild, fun, theatre adventure “Random Acts”: an evening of ten minute plays written, cast, rehearsed, and performed as staged readings in just 24 hours! In other words: 14 writers + 22 actors + 7 directors + 2 producers = 7 plays from page to the stage in a day! This is sure to be a sell-out so reserve early.
Bobby Darling & Dr. Devine Newburyport Rotary Club Fundraiser
Thu, November 12at 7:30pm
Cocktail reception begins at 6:30pm
Tickets: $20 All seats
The Newburyport Rotary Club is having its 4th Annual Comedy Show featuring Bobby Darling and Dr. Divine. Is it music? Is it comedy? You have to know the rules before you can break them and these two know the rules! Meet two musicians who can make the strings perform whatever they wish: country, classical, pop or rock; but watch them really mix it up with guitar tricks that have them breaking every rule in the book. Guitar tricks? Yup! Guitar tricks.
Edge of Never
Fri, November 13 – TWO SHOWS! at 7pm and 9pm
Tickets: $10 All seats
The Edge of Never begins where ski films leave off, or never dared to go. While most of these movies rely on action and loud music to provide a momentary rush that quickly melts away, THE EDGE OF NEVER combines those elements with mythic storytelling to produce a film experience that’s fun, but also meaningful and memorable. The film The Edge of Never is based upon the book of the same name, and relates the true story of a young man, Kye Petersen, who traveled to Chamonix, France, to ski the route that killed his famous, big-mountain skiing father, Trevor Petersen.
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