Welcome to our blog! We'll be posting about local film, theatre, and performing arts events. But we also like our Lawrence music scene and drinking Free State Beer, so that will inevitably make it's way into the blog at times. Be sure to follow our twitter account, too!
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Tonight at Liberty Hall the award-winning Turkish film "Watchtower" is screening (presented by the Lied Center, but don't get confused and head there to see it). Filmmaker Pelin Esmer will be present to introduce the film and do a Q&A afterward. If that's not enough to get you there, consider that the event is free! Details here.
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Remember fall of 2012 when there was a lot of buzz about local filmmaker Kevin Willmott shooting his latest film "Jayhawkers"? Well, you finally get the chance to view the film on the big screen at the Lied Center. Tickets went on sale yesterday, and there appears to be 8 screenings over the weekend of Feb 14-16.
We had a chance to catch an advanced screening a couple weeks ago, and definitely recommend it to any Lawrencian or KU basketball fan. The film stars Kip Niven as Coach Phog Allen, and KU basketball player Justin Wesley as Wilt Chamberlain. But the film is about much more than basketball, as Willmott largely addresses the civil rights movement in Lawrence in the 1950's. You can see the trailer here.
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Theatre Lawrence has a second round of performances for "Wrong Window" this weekend. We haven't heard any reviews of the show yet, and we're still not sure how we'd feel about a Hitchcock spoof. Let us know if you see it!
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Lawrence has Burroughs fever, and we hope this isn't the first you've heard of it! The Lawrence Arts Center has quite the exhibition going on in their galleries. We caught a screening of "A Man Within", a documentary about William Burroughs on Sunday. There are several more films coming up in the next month, and we're definitely planning to catch some of them as well. See all the Burroughs-related events at LAC here.
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