Ticketed Events

Join us for a 1920s inspired evening as we enjoy all things Chicago, including the hilarious comedy of The Second City IMPROV ALL STARS. Classic gin martinis and other libations of your choice will be accompanied by a "roaring" good dinner catered by Linwoods. Slick your hair and wear your buckle shoes--Gangsters, Gun molls and G-men welcome. Wear your spats but leave your gats at home!

Friday, May 14, 2010
6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 17, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Historic Oakland Manor

Community leaders and students read their favorite poems at an elegant High Tea in the ballroom at Historic Oakland Manor as part of a national program entitled the “Favorite Poem Project.” Founded by Robert Pinsky, the 39th U.S. Poet Laureate, the Project is dedicated to celebrating, documenting and promoting poetry’s role in Americans’ lives, and has inspired hundreds of Favorite Poem readings in cities and towns across the country. Stanley Plumly, Maryland Poet Laureate, will close the reading.

Saturday, June 19, 8:00 p.m.
Rouse Theatre

Get ready for an evening of uproarious stand-up comedy from three of America’s most successful comics and past winners of NBC’s popular reality show “Last Comic Standing.” This not-to-be-missed revue stars Jon Reep of “That thing gotta Hemi?” fame, Iliza Shlesinger, the show’s first female and youngest winner, and John Heffron, frequent late night talk show guest and star of TV’s VH1, CMT and Comedy Central.

Friday, June 18, 8:00 p.m.
Rouse Theatre

For more than 50 years they’ve been the international torchbearers for traditional New Orleans Jazz. While their ranks have launched living legends such as famed pianist Sweet Emma Barrett and clarinet virtuoso George Lewis, today’s lineup of this American legacy is no less impressive under the direction of the original founders’ youngest son, Ben Jaffe. Their award winning, high energy style will have you on your feet clapping, dancing and parading in the aisles!

Novelist Sheila Kohler
Tuesday, June 22, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
The Rouse Company Foundation Student Services Hall – Rm. 400
Howard Community College

South African-born Sheila Kohler will read and talk about her new work, Becoming Jane Eyre, which begins in the dark room where Charlotte Brontë sits beside her ill father, gathering the rage to write Jane Eyre, and follows the writer through her memories to pen her masterpiece. A movie based on another of Kohler’s seven novels, Cracks, opens in U.S. theaters this year after debuting at the Toronto Film Festival.

Thursday, June 24
6:00 p.m. dinner
7:00 p.m. performance
Belmont Conference Center

Bands have been covering Beatles tunes for decades, but none like this talented trio. Imagine the music of the Fab Four shaken up with infusions of bluegrass and jazz topped off with a classical twist. The result is a satisfying musical cocktail called beatlegras. Their fresh, all acoustic renditions will have you singing along. Don’t miss this exceptional evening under the stars.

Wednesday, June 16, 7:30 p.m.
Smith Theatre

Often cited as one of the world’s top fingerstyle, steel-string guitarists, GRAMMY® nominee Alex de Grassi brings a unique voice to the art of acoustic guitar with his evocative compositions and arrangements, a highly-orchestrated sound, and sheer virtuosity. For this event, de Grassi will perform his original score in accompaniment to the 1934 silent film by legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, A Story of Floating Weeds, a tale about a group of traveling actors drifting aimlessly, seemingly carried by currents beyond their control.

Wednesday, June 23, 7:30 p.m.
Smith Theatre

Direct from a sold-out run spanning New York’s Times Square to the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, Patrick Combs tells the amazing-but-true story of how he deposited, and cashed, a junk-mail check marked ‘non-negotiable’ in the amount of $95,093. What started as a prank erupted into a staggering and funny David vs. Goliath-like adventure eliciting astonishing legal twists and worldwide media coverage. Will have you screaming with laughter!

Arrive early to enjoy the Picturing America 1930-1960 exhibit and reception in the Howard Community College Rouse Company Foundation Gallery from 5:30 to 7:30 and Gallery Talk at 6:15 p.m.

Saturday, June 26, 8:00 p.m.
Rouse Theatre

It is said Arlo Guthrie was born with a guitar in one hand and a harmonica in the other. He is the eldest son of singer/writer/philosopher Woody Guthrie, had his first public performance at age 13, and quickly became involved in the music that was shaping the world during the 1960s. His career exploded in 1967 with the release of “Alice’s Restaurant,” whose title song premiered at the Newport Folk Festival and helped foster a renewed commitment among the ‘60s generation to social consciousness and activism. The rest is musical history. With millions of fans and sold-out performances worldwide, he is coming to Columbia for the first time in 20 years. Don’t miss it!

Friday, June 25, 8:00 p.m.
Rouse Theatre

The sexy athleticism, exuberant personality and joyous movement that is Parsons Dance depicts a fusion of the gesture and movement that make up the modern dance vocabulary, and the discipline and precise execution one expects from a classical company. Included in the evening’s program are In The End, a full-throttle piece set to the highly popular music of Dave Matthews Band, and Caught, an unforgettable stroboscopic tour-de-force featuring a solo dancer defying gravity and flying above the stage.