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Arts & Entertainment
Iron Age Theatre presents ‘Marx in Soho’
Agitating the authorities of the afterlife to clear his name, Karl Marx is sent to earth for one hour to make his case. Bureaucracies are the same in heaven as on earth though, and due to a clerical error, Marx lands in Old City Philadelphia rather than his stomping grounds in London. Not daunted, Marx launches into a passionate, funny and moving defense of his life and political ideas in Howard Zinn’s brilliant, timely play “Marx in Soho.”
Fed up with the gloating of the right wing that “Marxism is dead” after the fall of the Soviet Union, and eager to reclaim his ideas from the distortion of Stalin’s brutalities and pseudo-socialism’s repressions, Marx urgently uses current news and events to show how his ideas still resonate. “Why are you building more and more prisons,” he asks, “Yes capitalism has triumphed. But over whom?
Tuesday, April 19, 7:00 p.m., University of West Florida Commons Auditorium.
Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door, admission is free for UWF students. Advance tickets can be purchased at Subterranean Books, 9 E. Gregory St. and End of the Line Café, 610 E. Wright St.
Call 474-1495 or jjddaa@earthlink.net for more information.
Choral Society sings ‘Americana’ April 23
The Choral Society of Pensacola, under the direction of Xiaolun Chen, concludes its 69th season with a concert titled “Americana” on Saturday, April 23rd at 7:30 p.m. in Cokesbury United Methodist Church, 5725 N. 9th Ave.
The 70 voices of the Choral Society will be joined by two professional guest soloists who are well known to area audiences - soprano Sewell Griffith, a local favorite who was brilliant in February’s “In Sacred Song” concert at the Saenger Theatre; and bass-baritone Mark Walters of North Carolina who has performed several times with the Choral Society in recent years and has established quite a following.
Accompaniment will be provided by pianist Rosemary Ramsey Pearce, a prominent musician, vocalist and music teacher in the greater Northwest Florida/South Alabama area who has also made a name for herself as a music director for local theatre productions.
“Americana” will feature a panorama of works by American composers, including music of Randall Thompson, Samuel Barber, Charles Ives, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and James Monaco. Traditional American folk songs and spirituals will also be performed. Audiences will enjoy such well known songs as “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “You Made Me Love You,” “Embraceable You,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “Simple Gift,” “Nine Hundred Miles,” “Mary Had a Baby,” and many more.
Tickets for the concert are $15.00 for reserved seating, $12.00 general admission, and $5.00 for students.
Tickets can also be purchased through the Pensacola Junior College Lyceum Ticket Office at 850-484-1847, and at Dollarhide’s Music & Sound (41 South Palafox) and Reynald’s Music House (36 East Garden) in downtown Pensacola.
T.T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum reopens
The T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum re-open edto the public March 28. The museum was closed for six months due to the damage sustained during Hurricane Ivan. The museum will celebrate its opening with three brand new exhibits in place: “Hoops to Hips,” a changing exhibit that will look at women’s evolving fashion; “Greetings of the Season,” a changing exhibit highlighting a postcard collection of yesteryear’s holiday art; and “Saving Our Heritage: Pensacola’s Civil War History,” Norman Haines’ donation of Pensacola Civil War artifacts and memorabilia from his former Civil War Soldiers Museum. In addition, two upcoming exhibits are planned for June. “The Perils of Paradise” will portray through photographs the devastation to Pensacola in the major hurricanes of 1926 and 2004, and “Black Ink: The African-American Press in Pensacola” will feature Pensacola’s black press and the lives it represented through its newspaper journalism and one local man’s printing press.
In celebration of the museum’s re-opening, a special collector’s poster will be available to visitors at no cost while supplies last. Visitation hours for the T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum will be Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free; donations are appreciated.
West Florida Historic Preservation Inc. is a direct support organization of the University of West Florida and is committed to enhancing area historical educational programming.
For more information, contact Brosnaham at (850) 595-5985 Ext. 110 or visit historicpensacola.org.
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