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 […]
Mary Kate Smith
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Fantastic fun
You know him and you love him and now a version of Shrek you probably haven’t seen is coming to the Hoogland Center for the Arts. Shrek the Musical runs March 21-23 and 28-30. Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks film that you also love, the laughs and music take to the stage. If you’re not […]
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Seasonal songs
A Very Hoogland Christmas is a Christmas revue featuring classic holiday tunes and contemporary Christmas music, as well as beautiful sacred music. Hosted by Gus Gordon, the show will feature Meghan Birch, Nathan Carls, Vanessa Ferguson, Kevin Ford, Amanda Reynolds, Debbie Ross, Mary Kate Smith and Matthew Vala and will showcase the Hoogland Kids, Teens […]
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Reaching for the stars
The legendary musical Gypsy, considered by many to be the best American musical ever written, will be presented Aug. 23-25 and Aug. 30-Sept. 1 at Hoogland Center for the Arts. Based on memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the show tells the backstage tale of vaudeville entertainer-turned-stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and her domineering mother Rose. Rose […]
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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 […]
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Melting-pot musical
Joshua Ratz, Mary Kate Smith, Doug Hahn (standing), Gerrah Caldwell and Joel Tinsley-Hall (seated) are just a few of the dazzling local talent in a cast of more than 50 performing the Tony-award winning musical Ragtime at the Hoogland Center for the Arts. Go on a journey with three families as they confront wealth and […]
