UI area events lineup for weekend in Iowa City and Cedar Rapids
UI Libraries hosts 37th Friends Event with Susan and Tom Chehak at Sham baugh Auditorium and UI Main Library. UI New Play Festival at Theatre B features The Ghosts of Romance and Missed America. Riverdance and Maifest appearances fill the weekend at Hancher Auditorium and Amana. Multiple workshops, dinners, carnivals, and concerts listed with venues in Iowa City, Coralville, Cedar Rapids, and Amana.
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Shambaugh
Iowa City
UI Writers’ Workshop
Susan Taylor Chehak
Tom Chehak
Iowa Memorial Union
Iowa
Ul Theatre
America
Local Comic Stages Center Spotlight at Penguins Club
A local comedian headlines the Penguins Comedy Club, performing in a solo set that draws a mixed hometown crowd. The act showcases sharp one liners and crowd work, with the performer delivering fresh material and a few crowd bits.
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Penguins Comedy Club
Mindy Weisel and a lifetime shaped by absence
Mindy Weisel, daughter of Auschwitz survivors Amram and Lili Deutsch, reflects on a life in Los Angeles and art after growing up in trauma. The piece traces her struggle with never feeling enough, her family memories, her new book, and a demanding daily routine centered on raising children and creating.
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Ann Gerhart
Washington Post
Ashington
Auschwitz
Amram Deutsch
Lili
Los Angeles
Lockheed Aircraft
Mindy
Mindy Weisel
Weisel
Mindy’s
Georgetown
Capital Books
Helen Epstein
Germany
Aviva Kempner
Deb Filler
New Zealand
Rosie Weisel
Israel
Sheldon
Hadassah Lieberman
Riverdance sets Hancher revenue record at Iowa recital
Riverdance-The Show at University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium set a ticket-sales record with $864,000 in revenue. Tickets ranged from 30 to 55 dollars and remaining performances run through Sunday.
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Riverdance
Hancher Auditorium
Iowa City
Hancher
John Kenyon
University of Iowa
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