Fridays on the Square celebrates its 21st season
Harrisonburg’s 21st season of the Fridays on the Square Music & Film Festival will begin on June 10 and run every Friday through Aug 26. It will be held in downtown Harrisonburg, and is a collaboration between Citizens for Downtown and Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance.
Fridays on the Square is an annual festival that celebrates music and film through outdoor concerts and film screenings. Events are held on Court Square in downtown Harrisonburg, weather permitting. If there is a chance of rain, events are moved to the Harrisonburg Farmers Market location at Turner Pavilion, behind the Harrisonburg City Municipal Building. If rain is severe, events will be held inside at Downtown Music 34 on Court Square. All events are free and open to the public.
Two screenings in Court Square Independent/Foreign Film Series
Come out to your local Art House and enjoy the latest in Court Square Theater’s Independent/Foreign Film Series as “Biutiful” and “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench” come through late April through early June. For specific dates and showtimes, please see courtsquaretheater.com. Tickets for all showings are available at the door beginning at thirty minutes before showtime. All tickets are $6.
“Biutiful,” starring Javier Bardem, is a 2010 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film and Best Actor. Uxbal (Bardem), is a father of two, who is determined to protect his children at all costs, regardless of moral code. His former best friend, now a police officer sworn to his capture, hounds his movements as he struggle to provide for his family. Counted as “searing”, Bardem’s performance is the first Best Actor nomination entirely in a language other than English. The run of “Biutiful” covers April 26–May 12. Showtimes for its running dates are 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Award-winning musical coming to Shenandoah Valley
After becoming one of the most internationally infamous musicals of this generation, Jonathan Larson’s RENT lands in Harrisonburg’s Court Square Theater for a rocking, raging and sexy limited engagement! Performances are Thursday, April 21st and Friday, April 22nd at 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 23rd at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Set in the early 1990’s East Village of New York City, RENT follows a group of Bohemian friends as they journey through “a year in the life” together. This daring musical updates the story of Puccini’s opera, La Boheme, with a backdrop of grunge, HIV, drugs, sexuality, and homelessness. Set to a driving rock score including addicting songs like “Seasons of Love,” “One Song Glory,” “Take Me or Leave Me,” and “Without You,” RENT envelopes you in its passion and lust for life. The Tony, Drama Desk, Theatre World, Obie, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Pulitzer Prize winning RENT is a testament to the human condition, as it asks us to measure our lives in love and live like there is no day but today.
Valley’s arthouse: Court Square is anchor to downtown
Independent and foreign film. Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Tchaikosky. Grammy-nominated folk legends. All in a season at Court Square Theater in Downtown Harrisonburg.
“We want to be the art house that brings the quirky programming that still has a real hook to it, that’s worth seeing, that people might not have heard of but really should have heard about,” said Noah Jones, the manager of Court Square Theater, which you would assume at first glance is the result of a reclamation project that restored a 1920s-era local theater back to its heyday.
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