New Year’s Eve at museum
Visitors to the Indiana State Museum’s Family New Year’s Eve Celebration on Dec. 31 can enjoy games, crafts, live music and a last ride on the Santa Claus Express train from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. At 8 p.m. help ring in 2011 when balloons drop. Admission is $6 for members and $11 for non-members. For more information, call (317) 232-1637 or log on to www.indianamuseum.org.
Symphony New Year’s Eve party
Hilbert Circle Theatre will be transformed into a Vienna concert hall at 9 p.m. on Dec. 31 for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s New Year’s Eve program. Joining the orchestra will be soprano Jennifer Zetlan and Dance Kaleidoscope. After the program, there will be a champagne toast party. Call (317) 639-4300 for more information or log on to www.indianapolissymphony.org.
Walker to be movie house again
The Madame Walker Theatre Center will again be home to independent films in its historic 940-seat theater. The Walker Building, located on the Indiana Avenue corridor, was the center of entertainment, business and pride for the city’s African-American community from the 1920s to the 1950s.
The theater was one of the only places in Indianapolis where African-Americans could enjoy movies. Today, the Madame Walker Theatre Center is home to a variety of signature programs and unique events, one of which is FLIX at the Walker.
FLIX, to debut April 14 in the theater, is the newest of the Walker’s signature programs. FLIX is an effort to provide new and relevant programming to the Walker’s offerings as well as to offer a platform for emerging filmmakers to have their work shown.
Guidelines for independent filmmakers to submit their work can be found on the Walker’s redesigned website at www.walkertheatre.com. Nine movies will be shown in 2011 at a flat rate of $5 to the public.
‘Charlie Brown’ production at Ben Davis
Wayne Township Community Theatre’s production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” opens Jan. 21.
Performances will be at the Ben Davis High School Theatre and run Jan. 21-29. Friday shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday shows are at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
General admission tickets are $10, senior tickets $8 and student tickets $7.
Reserve tickets by calling the Wayne Township Education Foundation at (317) 390-0363 or purchase your tickets at the door.
“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” is based on the Charles Schulz comic strip Peanuts.
ART for the nation at state museum
Check out Art for the Nation at the Indiana State Museum. The exhibition will be featured Jan. 29–July 24.
Museum visitors can explore how poster art was used on the home front during World Wars I and II to mobilize the nation around a common cause.
Art for the Nation is an art exhibit with history and a history exhibit based on art. Discover where art and politics intersect and the link between propaganda and patriotism. Besides being visually stunning, the posters represent a source of information on the contributing efforts of the home front during wartime.
For more information, visit the museum’s website at www.indianamuseum.org.
Tickets on sale for Road to Wrestlemania
WWE Raw will present the Road to Wrestlemania at Conseco Fieldhouse on March 27 beginning at 5 p.m.
Tickets for the show are now on sale for $15, $25, $35, $45 and $65. They are available at the fieldhouse box office, at www.ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets or charge by phone at (800) 745-3000.
Some of the WWE stars scheduled to appear include Randy Orton, Sheamus, The Miz, Wade Barrett, the Nexus and Mark Henry.
Carmel Palladium tickets
Tickets for the inaugural season in Carmel’s Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts are on sale now. Tickets are for performances to all five series – classics, songbook, jazz, country and dance.
Patrons also will have the opportunity to combine four or more events across each series. Single ticket prices are $15 to $110. All are available at the Palladium box office, by phone at (317) 843-3800 or online at www.TheCenterForThePerformingArts.org.
Tierney Sutton Band at Cabaret
Three-time Grammy nominees, the Tierney Sutton Band, known for their bold and contemporary reinterpretation of jazz standards, will have two shows Jan. 7 and 8 at 8 p.m. at the Cabaret in the Columbia Club on Monument Circle.
Tickets are $35, $45 and $55 with a $12 food or beverage minimum.
The evening will feature songs from their latest CD, “Desire,” including “Cry Me a River,” “Fever” and “Skylark.”
For tickets, call (317) 275-1169 or order online at www.TheCabaret.org.
