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LOVE LETTERS Plays Valentine's Day 2025 Weekend Performances At Center for Visual and Performing Arts


by A.A. Cristi - January 28, 2025

'Love Letters,' the timeless play by A.R. Gurney, will be presented for two dinner performances for Valentine's Day Weekend 2025, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday Feb. 14 and a matinee performance at 3 p.m. Sunday Feb. 16 on the Theatre at the Center stage at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ri...

DICKENS' CHRISTMAS CAROL DINNER SHOW Returns At Center For Visual And Performing Arts


by A.A. Cristi - December 10, 2024

Chicago Tribune Media Newspaper Columnist Philip Potempa and quick-change artist Cara Schmitt are joined by broadcast personality Tony Panek on the Theatre at the Center stage in December 2024 for the return of a fresh and entertaining spin on Charles Dickens' holiday tale classic....

New Play THE MYSTERY OF AMELIA EARHART Starring Leslie Goddard Debuts In Munster


by Blair Ingenthron - July 21, 2024

A new play, THE MYSTERY OF AMELIA EARHART, explores the life and disappearance of aviatrix Amelia Earhart, starring Leslie Goddard. Performances run through July 21 in Munster....

Theatre At The Center to Welcome the Holidays With CHRISTMAS FROM THE FARM Dinner-Show


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 28, 2023

Join us for a fun and folksy holiday dinner-show at Theatre at the Center. Experience 'Christmas From the Farm' with live music, storytelling, and audience participation. Don't miss this nostalgic and heartwarming production. Get your tickets now!...

DOUBT Charity Reading To Take Place At The Center for Visual and Performing Arts This Month


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 20, 2023

'Doubt - A Parable' by playwright John Patrick Shanley is being presented as a special one-performance event as 'a staged play reading with scenes' at 3 p.m. June 25, 2023 in Munster, Ind....

Theatre at The Center Stage Rings in Holidays with DICKENS' CHRISTMAS CAROL DINNER SHOW


by Blair Ingenthron - November 20, 2022

Chicago Tribune Media Newspaper Columnist Philip Potempa and comedienne Jeannie Rapstad are joined by WJOB radio personality Tony Panek on the Theatre at the Center stage in December 2022 for a new and entertaining spin on Charles Dickens' holiday tale classic....

Past Shows

Love Letters
"Love Letters"
2/14 - 2/16/2025


"Love Letters," the timeless play by A.R. Gurney, will be presented for two dinner performances for Valentine’s Day Weekend 2025, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday ...

Dickens' A Christmas Carol Dinner Show


A fun and frantic 75-minute holiday stage adventure with radio sound effects by broadcast personality Tony Panek for an imaginative telling of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" ...

The Mystery of Amelia Earhart


Amelia Earhart’s courageous exploits and spirited personality made her an international celebrity in the early 20th century. In this lively living-history program, meet Amelia as ...

Doubt - A Parable


“DOUBT: A Parable” by playwright John Patrick Shanley  Presented as a staged play reading with scenes, with permission of the author and Dramatists Play Service, ...

Love Letters


Two dinner performances, noon and 6 p.m., of A.R. Gurney's play of love-crossed correspondence through the decades, starring newspaper columnist Philip Potempa and comedienne Jeannie ...

Dickens' Christmas Carol Dinner Show


A fun and frantic 55-minute stage reading with radio sound effects of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" starring Phil Potempa and Crista Zivanovic in the ...

Winchell: On the Air


Journalist and author Philip Potempa will appear in a new one-man play about the life and career of infamous newspaper gossip columnist and radio personality ...

Dickens' Christmas Carol Dinner Show


A Charles Dickens dinner show with two performances is a highlight of the December holiday events at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 ...

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