Polk Theater offers entertainment
Audra Gold
Issue date: 9/5/08 Section: Entertainment
Lakeland's historic Polk Theatre has a wide variety of films and theatre productions this semester.
Each weekend, the theatre is either hosting a play or showing a film. The films range from 1940's classics to current movie theatre blockbusters.
Coming up on Saturday, September 13 at 7:00 p.m. is the Theatre's 80th anniversary. According to the Polk Theater website, polktheater.org, the theater will be having a "Red Carpet Night."
The entertainment will range from "vaudeville, burlesque, dance opera, satire, and American's Tenor, Daniel Rodriguez." Afterwards, there will be an after party in the alley with music, food and drinks.
The Polk Theatre's prices for weekend films are: $6 for adults, $4 for seniors, and $3 dollars for students with a school ID. All films start at 7:30 p.m.
The French thriller-mystery "Tell No One" is playing from Friday, September 19 through the 21.
"Brideshead Revisited" is playing September 26 through the 28. The movie is an adaptation from the novel "Brideshead Revisted" by the British author Evelyn Waugh.
"Man on Wire," is playing from September 3 through the 5. According to yahoomovies.com, "Man on Wire" is a documentary-crime film about a man that "stepped on a wire suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center." Yahoo Movies also states that the movie is the winner of the World Cinema Documentary Audience and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
A special production of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" is playing from October 31 through November 1. According to the Polk Theater website the night will be a fundraiser for Polk Theatre & Florida Dance Theatre. The event starts at 10:00 p.m.
The Theatre's first opera of the season is on November 8 at 7:30 p.m.. The Opera Theatre of Lakeland will be producing "The Barber of Seville" by Gioachino Rossini.
On December 6 the Opera Theatre of Lakeland will be producing the opera "Amahl and Night Visitor." There will be two performances one at 2:30 p.m. and one at 7:30 p.m.
Each weekend, the theatre is either hosting a play or showing a film. The films range from 1940's classics to current movie theatre blockbusters.
Coming up on Saturday, September 13 at 7:00 p.m. is the Theatre's 80th anniversary. According to the Polk Theater website, polktheater.org, the theater will be having a "Red Carpet Night."
The entertainment will range from "vaudeville, burlesque, dance opera, satire, and American's Tenor, Daniel Rodriguez." Afterwards, there will be an after party in the alley with music, food and drinks.
The Polk Theatre's prices for weekend films are: $6 for adults, $4 for seniors, and $3 dollars for students with a school ID. All films start at 7:30 p.m.
The French thriller-mystery "Tell No One" is playing from Friday, September 19 through the 21.
"Brideshead Revisited" is playing September 26 through the 28. The movie is an adaptation from the novel "Brideshead Revisted" by the British author Evelyn Waugh.
"Man on Wire," is playing from September 3 through the 5. According to yahoomovies.com, "Man on Wire" is a documentary-crime film about a man that "stepped on a wire suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center." Yahoo Movies also states that the movie is the winner of the World Cinema Documentary Audience and Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
A special production of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" is playing from October 31 through November 1. According to the Polk Theater website the night will be a fundraiser for Polk Theatre & Florida Dance Theatre. The event starts at 10:00 p.m.
The Theatre's first opera of the season is on November 8 at 7:30 p.m.. The Opera Theatre of Lakeland will be producing "The Barber of Seville" by Gioachino Rossini.
On December 6 the Opera Theatre of Lakeland will be producing the opera "Amahl and Night Visitor." There will be two performances one at 2:30 p.m. and one at 7:30 p.m.
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