Portuguese Rodeo Clown Company The popular Portuguese Rodeo Clown Company returns to the Hoogland Center for the Arts Aug. 22 and 23 with live improvised comedy theater. Get your tickets now by phone or online – these shows have been known to sell out. PRCC consists of five local performers who take audience suggestions and spontaneously […]
Johnny Molson
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Laughter and love
Locals Johnny Molson and Mary Young star in the Lanford Wilson Pulitzer Prize-winning play Talley’s Folly at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, March 14-16 and 21-23. Set in Missouri during 1944, Matt Friedman is a Jewish accountant from St. Louis who has returned to a rural boathouse where he met Sally Talley to profuse […]
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Droll duo
PHOTO COURTESY HOOGLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS Six performances of The Odd Couple take place, Jan. 24-26, 31 and Feb. 1-2. This classic comedy by Neil Simon opens with a group of guys in the middle of a heated poker game at the apartment of divorced sports writer Oscar Madison. And if the mess is […]
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Bringing the big screen to life
Don your favorite 50s character attire from the movie Grease for Sing-a-long-a Grease in Theatre 3 at Hoogland Center for the Arts. Whether in your nerdy sweater best or bad boy leather, Friday and Saturday evening promise to be lots of fun watching, singing and dancing to the classic film starring John Travolta and Olivia […]
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Interactive showing
Warm up your vocal chords, cut up those chintz curtains and parade, bike or skip on down to the Hoogland Center for the Arts for the Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music. On Nov. 23 and 24, watch the classic film on the big screen and interact with the movie under the direction of Johnny Molson, morning […]
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Humor licentiously
Dynamic Patterns Theatre presents three performances at the Hoogland Center for the Arts of the comedy Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon. Middle-aged Barney Cashman has a wife, three kids, a Buick, a successful seafood restaurant and a desperate, timid fear that life will never offer him any of its illicit goodness. […]
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Ad-lib acting
The Portuguese Rodeo Clown Company performs two shows at the Hoogland Center for the Arts, Aug. 3-4. What is a Portuguese Rodeo Clown Company, what do they do and why see them? For those who missed their 2006 Springfield performance, they are an improv group, formed in Detroit in 1995, who take audience suggestions to […]
