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RE:VERSE- Poetry Open Mic Night with special guest: Jamison Lee!
Jamison Lee is a songwriter, poet and author of short stories. His creative writings have appeared most recently in Touchstone Magazine and Silenced Press. As a recording artist, he goes by “Malgre Lui,” which is a French phrase meaning, “in spite of himself.” In April, Jamison Lee’s EP was reviewed and featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered website. Digital recordings are available through Amazon and iTunes and will soon be out on vinyl.
Last Chance to See FAITH!
The Spring performance at TheatresCool is extra special this year! Not only is Faith written and directed by Artistic Director Kymberly Harris but it features two casts staring the Adult Ensemble! Want to hear more? Charley Schlenker from GTL Radio talks about Faith with Kymberly Harris and Cady McClain! Listen here!
Read our feature story in The Pantagraph! Thank you Dan Craft!
Faith will be closing this weekend, only two more shows left- Friday, June 4th and Saturday June 5th at 8pm! Tickets can be purchased on our Faith page or at TheatresCool and Reality Bites during regular business hours!
Visiting from out of town? We’ve got you covered! The Baymont Inn & Suites in Bloomington is offering a fantastic theatre/hotel package for only $62 a night. And while in town make dinner reservations at Reality Bites or Lancaster’s for special theatre/dinner packages!
Last Chance to Sign-up for Summer Classes!
THEATRESCOOL SUMMER CLASSES NOW AVAILABLE : PreK-High School!
TheatresCool is thrilled to announce its new summer session available to students PreK through High School. Summer session classes are being offered at TheatresCool through Heartland Community College. Registration begins the first week of April 2010 either online through the Heartland Community College website or by phone (309) 268-8177.
TheatresCool Acting School
ENRICHMN 1635, 1636 & 1637
TheatresCool is Central Illinois’ only professional training ground for beginning, aspiring and professional actors. Classes will enhance your individual creativity, literacy, self esteem, musicality, movement, sense of fun, self confidence, performance and theatre skills. Exercises include improvisation, character games, and children write and perform their own plays. There will be an in class performance at the end of each session.
Grades PreK-3: 7629 Sec.YA Mon-Fri (10 sessions), 6/7- 6/18, 12-2PM
Grades 4-8: 7635 Sec YA Mon-Fri (10 sessions), 6/14-6-25, 3-5PM
Grades 9-12: 7636 Sec YA Mon-Fri (10 sessions), 6/21-7/2, 12-2PM
Kymberly Harris – Artistic Director of TheatresCool
403 N. Mainstreet, Downtown Bloomington
$200 (includes materials)
Hip-hop poet Duriel E. Harris this Tuesday!
DURIEL E. HARRIS is the author of the poetry collection Drag, a multivocal symphony in five movements. An acclaimed poet, performance/sound artist and scholar, her work has been featured and published internationally. Harris holds degrees from Yale University and the Graduate Creative Writing Program at NYU, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. A co-founder of the Black Took Collective and member of Douglas Ewart and Inventions free jazz ensemble, she is an assistant professor of English and teaches creative writing and poetics at Illinois State University. Watch Duriel read here!
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The Citizen Stab and Ground Control Show! Re:Verse with Special Guest: Duriel E. Harris and the Marc Boon CD Release Party!
Citizen Stab: A two-piece prog-rock instrumental stab to the face.
DURIEL E. HARRIS is the author of the poetry collection Drag, a multivocal symphony in five movements. An acclaimed poet, performance/sound artist and scholar, her work has been featured and published internationally. Harris holds degrees from Yale University and the Graduate Creative Writing Program at NYU, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. A co-founder of the Black Took Collective and member of Douglas Ewart and Inventions free jazz ensemble, she is an assistant professor of English and teaches creative writing and poetics at Illinois State University. Watch Duriel read here!
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Re:verse Open Mic Night with Special Guest: Ben Slotky
TheatresCool
Open Mic Night
RE:VERSE
Read POETRY
or
CREATIVE WRITING
With special guest:
Ben Slotky
Author of Red Hot Dogs, White Gravy
Tuesday, March 16th
at
7:00 p.m.
FREE – $5 suggested donation
TheatresCool is located at 403 N. Main St. in downtown Bloomington.
Nobody writes about toothbrushes, dead mothers, divorce, bears, robots, tiny horses, fingernails, love, singing, Hitler, aliens, violence, loss, and rejection quite like Ben Slotky and nowhere does he do it better, funnier, hotter, and faster than in Red Hot Dogs, White Gravy, his insanely funny, pretty much all true first collection of stories. Part Raymond Carver, part rock song, part David Sedaris meets/makes out with Mark Leyner, part love story, part autobiography, Red Hot Dogs, White Gravy is unlike any other book you put in your hands.
Eva Hunter and David Davenport at TheatresCool Friday
Eva Hunter and David Davenport At TheatresCool
February 12th 8 p.m.
$7
Come here original music by talented artists in a low key, laid back environment!!
TheatresCool is located at 403 N. Main St. in downtown Bloomington