Sunday, February 24, 2013
Today's event will benefit The Center for Family Resources' work assisting homeless families.
Oscar Sunday is here and The Center for Family Resources (CFR) is hosting the only officially sanctioned Oscar party in the state of Georgia at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. ABC news anchor John Bachmann will emcee the evening as city officials, fortune 500 companies, celebrities and community members celebrate The 85th Annual Oscar awards. The CFR, a Cobb County-based non-profit organization, is in its 13th year of hosting the event where a live auction featuring high end trips to foreign locations, dinner with University of Georgia athletes will be up for bidding. This black tie affair brings community members together to support a non-profit that helps homeless families become self-sufficient and work toward making them …
Friday, February 15, 2013
Take a look at this roundup of events in Cobb, Douglas and Paulding Counties, Feb. 15 through Feb. 17.
Douglasville Arbor Day Event What: Keep Douglasville Beautiful invites you to celebrate Arbor Day with tree plantings at Jessie Davis Park. The event will include an educational workshop led by a certified arborist, a tree planting demonstration and free pecan seedlings. Where: Davis Park, 7775 Malone St, Douglasville When: Friday, Feb. 15, 9 a.m. "Beehive: The 60's Musical" What: Beehive is a rockin’ musical celebration of the girl groups who left their mark on 60’s music and on many of our lives. Relive music’s golden era and an empowering time in history with "The Name Game," "The Beat Goes On," "Respect," "Natural Woman," "My Boyfriend’s Back," "One Fine Day," "To Sir With Love," "It’s My Party," "Proud Mary," "Downtown" and more. …
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Smyrna Patch is giving away a pair of tickets to the Mel Brooks musical.
If you love monsters and musicals, then Smyrna Patch has the perfect contest for you! We're giving away a pair of tickets to the opening night of "Young Frankenstein" at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The show is based on the Oscar-nominated film by Mel Brooks, who created a humorous and twisted adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic. Film buffs may remember musical numbers such as “The Transylvania Mania,” “He Vas My Boyfriend” and a monstrous take on Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ On the Ritz.” Entering this contest is easy. All you need to do is post a comment at the bottom of this article to tell us about your favorite Mel Brooks film. Or share a comment about your favorite musical of all time. We’ll conduct a random drawing …
Friday, February 3, 2012
Tickets for the May 17 concert go on sale today plus a roundup of what's coming up at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
Trace Adkins is bringing his Songs and Stories Tour to Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in May and tickets go on sale today. Adkins will share music and tales from his life Thursday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m. The inspiration for the tour came from Adkins 10th studio album “Proud To Be Here.” Tickets range in price from $39.75 to $75 plus fees. There’s plenty to entertain Smyrna and Vinings at CEPAC between now and the Songs and Stories Tour in May. Atlanta Ballet brings two performances to the stage this month. Twyla Tharp’s “The Princess and the Goblin” runs Feb. 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 8 p.m and Feb. 11, 12 and 18 and 19 at 2 p.m. Many of the stars of this ballet hail from Smyrna and Vinings. Tickets range in price from $20 to $120 plus fees. …
Monday, January 23, 2012
President Barack Obama readies for Tuesday's State of the Union; Gingrich and GOP candidates could be destined for Super Tuesday Republican Presidential Debate at CEPAC.
Fresh from watching Newt Gingrich's victory in the South Carolina GOP primary over the weekend, the nation’s political eyes turn to Washington where President Barack Obama will deliver the State of the Union address on Tuesday night. The annual speech allows presidents to boldly state their case to both Congressional houses as well as the nation. But despite the ambitious claims, presidents like Obama often see their grandiose visions go unfulfilled in the face of messy and bipartisanship government. By Constitutional design, the president’s power is limited when it comes to solving certain issues and Americans are increasingly asking Congress to do what it was elected to do and that’s work for the people. Of course Obama has his fair …
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Arts education initiative happily embarks upon its fifth season at Cobb Energy Centre.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Rare is the performing arts venue that chooses to develop and produce its own educational outreach program—such is an undertaking typically left to performance groups. Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre is an exception to the rule. The venue established the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Foundation for the purpose of community outreach and arts education. ArtsBridge, the Centre’s Foundation arts education initiative, is rolling out its fifth season of wowing young audiences and educators with dazzling productions, field trips, workshops, master classes, artists-in-schools and the Shuler Hensley Awards - The Georgia High School Musical Theater Awards. Last spring, 2011 Lovett School graduate Jamie Harwood of Vinings received the best …
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Fox News commentator Sean Hannity will host his Holiday Concert Salute to the Troops on Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Eight years, eight months and 25 days after it began, America’s war in Iraq came to a quiet and uncertain end on Thursday. With major questions about Iraq’s future and security unsettled, the United States wasn’t declaring victory during Thursday ceremonies and speeches. What is fact is that the war numbers are sobering. The U.S. lost 4,484 military personnel since 2003 in Iraq. Of those, 142 hailed from Georgia, but according to Vet Friends, none were from Smyrna. A total of 32,226 U.S. soldiers were seriously wounded in the war and they may require care for the rest of their lives. Iraqi civilians suffered enormously and according to data from Iraq Body Count, which monitors reported deaths, the estimate is that 113,728 Iraqis died. And …
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Called by some the perfect musical, ”My Fair Lady" runs tonight through Sunday at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
"My Fair Lady,'' the second show of the Gas South Broadway Series, makes its debut tonight at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre with four more performances set to take place through Sunday. Big League Productions Inc. presents a sparkling new production of the musical by which all other musicals are measured. Based on Shaw’s play and Pascal’s movie “Pygmalion,” with book music and lyrics by Lerner and Loewe, "My Fair Lady" is triumphant. With Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?, With a Little Bit of Luck, The Rain in Spain, I Could Have Danced All Night, On the Street Where You Live, Get Me to the Church on Time and I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face, it’s no wonder everyone – not just Henry Higgins – falls in love with Eliza Doolittle. The show’s…
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The 2011-12 season for The Atlanta Opera opens Saturday night at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
Many of us “uncultured” folk have never experienced the opera in real life. If you are indeed one of us, why not take the short jaunt to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre to see The Atlanta Opera perform Lucia di Lammermoor. The website summarizes the story thusly: “Lucia’s forced marriage sets off a chain of tragic events that leads to the most spectacular mad scene in opera. Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor reveals chilling tragedy on a grand scale and will leave you breathless.” Authentic opera is always sung in Italian, but there will be helpful English supertitles above the stage. Luca di Lammermoor begins Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. Other show times are Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 20…
Thursday, October 27, 2011
The first show of this year’s Gas South Broadway Series promises to take audiences on a trip down “Penny Lane’’ this weekend at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Beatles are almost an unfailing crowd-pleaser as far as entertainment goes, which is one reason you can’t go wrong this weekend with seeing "Rain: A Tribute To The Beatles" at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. And if you don’t have tickets, don’t worry as Smyrna-Vinings Patch is giving away two pairs to the show the Associated Press described as “the next best thing to seeing The Beatles!” This is the first show of this year’s Gas South Broadway Series and it promises to take audiences on a trip down “Penny Lane.’’ Direct from a long and successful Broadway engagement, the production usually starts like a Broadway show and ends like a rock concert with people standing and singing to the music. This weekend offers five performances: …
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