Your Weekly HOT List 10.26-11.1
October 26 to November 1, 2009
From monsters in the theater to lectures by authors and Pink Floyd Tributes… YOUR WEEK IN EVENTS IS WAITING! So get out there and heart your community! If you want to see everything happenin’ in our greater Roanoke Valley and beyond, check out our main calendar of events here or for the best of the best, pick up A Useful Paper today! It’s all FREE, yo! Plus, check out our full list of Halloween happenings for later this week!
TUESDAY-SUNDAY
Donnie & The Monsters
Time: 8pm
Place: Studio Roanoke, 30 Campbell Avenue, Roanoke, VA
Price: $12-$15
Info: This hilarious adult version of a children’s book is definitely NOT for children, but audiences 16 and up will love this weird and wonderful lesson in how to deal with anger and fear.
WEDNESDAY-SUNDAY
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Price: $10
Info: A wildly imaginative new comedy from Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright Sarah Ruhl. Picture an incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet cafe, and a stranger at the next table who happens to be dead.
WEDNESDAY
Bryan Adams SOLD OUT
Time: 8pm
Place: Jefferson Center, 541 Luck Avenue SW, Roanoke, VA
Price: $45-$85
Info: Bryan Adams brings his highly successful solo-acoustic concert to Roanoke. This special show provides a rare opportunity for fans to see Adams as they’ve not seen him before: solo-acoustic and intimate.
THURSDAY
Author Reading: Edward P. Jones
Time: 8pm
Place: Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
Price: FREE
Info: NY Times best selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones will read from his works. Jones was honored for his novel, “The Known World,” which also received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
SATURDAY
Dark Side Project: Pink Floyd Tribute
Time: 10pm
Place: Kirk Avenue Music Hall, 22 Kirk Avenue SW, Roanoke, VA
Price: $5 donation
Info: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side is dense with detail, creating its own dark, haunting world. No other record defines them quite as well as this one. But this band does an amazing job paying tribute to them.
