Remembering David Bowie: The Man Who Fell to Earth

We are remembering David Bowie with our screening of The Man Who Fell to Earth, a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life. Rock legend David Bowie, in his acting debut, completely embodies the title role, while Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn turn in pitch-perfect supporting performances.

Click to see trailer

Join us: Saturday, January 30 at 7 PM

at the Strand Theatre in downtown Vicksburg

$5 advance tickets available at Highway 61 Coffeehouse. $7 at the door.

Call 601 529 7252

After the show, head to Martin's at Midtown for supper, conversation, great beers, etc...

Magic Flute from Bregenz is a thing of wonder

Even though it was colder at the Strand than we would like, we had a respectable turnout on Sunday, January 10 for The Magic Flute as recorded at the Bregenz Festival. It was a spectacular production. Here is a link with more information and a review. 

Onscreen opera: the Magic Flute

Opera onscreen:
The Magic Flute
at the Strand Theatre
717 Clay Street - downtown
Sunday, January 10
2 PM 

Westside Theatre Foundation and Rising Alternative present the Magic Flute. 

Recorded at the Bregenz Festival, a performing arts festival held every summer in 

Austria. A floating stage sits over the water on the shores of Lake Constance and has 

7,000 seats. In this extravagant location, the lake often becomes an extension of the 

stage, leading to some of the world's most unique and innovative opera productions. 

 

Join us at the Strand for this lavish presentation and a light buffet during intermission... 

 

Tickets: $15 in advance  

at Highway 61 Coffeehouse 

$18 at the door 

or online tickets 

601 529 7252

Upcoming films

Saturday, November 21 at 7 PM
Difret

Based on a true story about the struggle for women's rights in Ethiopia

Watch trailer

Saturday, November 28 at 7 PM

The Graduate

The classic film that made a star of the young Dustin Hoffman

Watch trailer

Saturday, December 5 at 7 PM
Flowers

Spain's official entry for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film

Watch trailer

Saturday, December 12 at 7 PM
Hitchcock Truffaut

The story of the meeting of two film giants and its effect on generations of filmmakers. 

Watch trailer

$5 Advance discounted tickets are available at Highway 61 Coffeehouse

At the door: $7

RENT is coming to the Strand stage

The Westside Theatre's production of RENT, a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. 

The show won a Pulitzer Prize. On Broadway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won a Tony Award for Best Musical among other awards. The Broadway production closed on September 7, 2008 after a 12-year run of 5,123 performances, the ninth longest-running Broadway show at the time.

Advance tickets online:
http://rentvicksburg.brownpapertickets.com/
or at Highway 61 Coffeehouse: $15 / $18 at the door.

Join the Quest for Fire

Fire is important, and that point is demonstrated for us in Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1982 film the Quest for Fire. Cavemen on a quest to regain the precious element, facing enemy tribes and dangerous prehistoric creatures? Really? Oh, yeah. It has become a cult film and for good reasons...As Janet Masliin wrote in the New York Times on the movie's release: NOT many movies demand the suspension of disbelief that Jean-Jacques Annaud's ''Quest for Fire'' insists upon, and earns. The audience is asked to imagine that it is seeing what a movie camera would have seen, had the movie camera been invented 80,000 years ago. Some skepticism is in order, but it vanishes fast. ''Quest for Fire'' is more than just a hugely enterprising science lesson, although it certainly is that. It's also a touching, funny and suspenseful drama about prehumans.

See the trailer for Quest for Fire

Join us for this classic film, 

The Quest for Fire.

Saturday, November 14 at 7 PM

The Strand Theatre

717 Clay Street

downtown Vicksburg

$5 advance tickets available at Highway 61 Coffeehouse

$7 at the door

(barking at the screen is not only tolerated, but encouraged.

Halloween weekend at the Strand= Dracula & Rocky + you...

It's a Halloween party x 2 at the Strand Theatre!

Live onstage: Original production of 

Dracula - the Sin of the Flesh

Fri. , Oct. 30 at 7:30 PM / Sat. Oct. 31 at 9 PM

followed by the perfect cult movie: 

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Fri. , Oct. 30 at 10:30 PM / Sat. Oct. 31 at 11:45 PM

It's a Halloween party both nights. Between the shows we will have dancing, cheap
drinks, old horror movie trailers, costume contests and more. Come for the night or pick
your pleasure.

If you know anyone who saw our original production Dracula: the Sin of the Flesh last
week, ask them if they had fun. I know we did. It's Dracula, with the familiar characters
of Dr. Seward, Harker, Renfield, Van Helsing, Lucy and Mina; but presented in a new
way using music, dance, special effects and audience immersion. Don't miss this show.

And what can we say about Rocky Horror Picture Show? It's the 40th Anniversary of the
perfect cult film, but it has never been shown in Vicksburg until now. Come dressed as
your favorite character, heckle the actors, and do the Time Warp (again).

Advance Tickets at Highway 61 Coffeehouse:

Best deal - Both shows + party either night: $22
•
Dracula: $15
($18 at the door)
•
Rocky: $10 ($12 at the door)

Call 601 638 9221

Strand Theatre - 717 Clay Street - Downtown Vicksburg