Future events
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music
Sarah McLachlan, a three-time Grammy winner, will bring her intimately familiar voice to the WVU Creative Arts Center Jan. 14 for a 7:30 p.m. show. Tickets are on sale at the Mountainlair and Creative Arts Center box offices, online at www.ticketmaster.com and by phone at 304-293-SHOW.
“The Music as a Weapon 2011 Tour” featuring Disturbed and Korn comes to the WVU Coliseum at 7 p.m. Jan. 26. The tour will also include performances by Sevendust and In This Moment. Tickets will go on sale today at the Mountainlair and Creative Arts Center box offices, ticketmaster-.com and by phone at 304-293-SHOW.
Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa – two of the hottest players in the hip-hop game – will perform at the WVU Coliseum Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. Local Morgantown alternative hip-hop artist Huey Mack will open the show. Tickets go on sale Jan. 12 at 9 a.m. at the Mountainlair Box Office, ticketmaster.com and 304-293-SHOW.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s “Mountain Stage with Larry Groce” returns to the WVU Creative Arts Center on March 6 at 7 p.m. Scheduled to appear are Great American Taxi – fronted by a former West Virginia University student – and Railroad Earth. More acts will be announced at a later date. Tickets are on sale now at the Mountainlair Box Office, online at ticketmaster.com and by phone at 304-293-SHOW.
theater
Greensburg Civic Theatre’s Greasepaint Players hold auditions for the play “Hyronomous A. Frog (The Frog Prince)”
on from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Feb, 15 at Greensburg Garden & Civic Center, 951 Old Salem Road
. Youth age 10 and up and adults are invited to audition with a cold reading from the script. Anyone wanting to audition for the lead role of Hyronomous must demonstrate ability to convincingly and comically move and act like a frog. Production dates are March 25-26 at Greensburg Garden & Civic Center. For further information, e-mail info@gctheatre.org or call 724-836-PLAY
and leave a message.
odds&ends
The Community Coalition for Social Justice (CCCSJ) and Main Street Morgantown are co-sponsoring a celebration of the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on Jan. 17 at 2 p.m. at the Metropolitan Theatre, 369 High St., in Morgantown. This year’s theme is “Peace.” This event is designed for families and is free and open to the public. The program will feature the West Virginia University African Drum and Dance Ensemble, dancers from Westwood Middle School, and a community choir. Students from Mylan Park Elementary School will be soloists for the choir. Students from St. Francis de Sales Central Catholic School will display puppets of social justice leaders and talk about their work. Art students from Cheat Lake Elementary School and St. Francis are preparing posters related to the Peace theme to display in downtown Morgantown businesses. For more information about CCSJ, visit the CCSJ web site at www.ccsjwv.org or email ccsjwv@hotmail-.com. For more information about Main Street Morgantown, go to www.downtownmorgantown.com or e-mail barb@downtownmorgantown.com.
The Pittsburgh Wine Festival will be held on May 5. This year marks the ninth annual edition of the world-renowned festival, which will be held in the East and West Club Lounges at Heinz Field, Pittsburgh.
Send entertainment items to Brandon Szuminsky at bszuminsky@heraldstandard.com. or hsweekendscene@heraldstandard.com.