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Theatre At The Center to Welcome the Holidays With CHRISTMAS FROM THE FARM Dinner-Show


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 28, 2023

Join us for a fun and folksy holiday dinner-show at Theatre at the Center. Experience 'Christmas From the Farm' with live music, storytelling, and audience participation. Don't miss this nostalgic and heartwarming production. Get your tickets now!...

DOUBT Charity Reading To Take Place At The Center for Visual and Performing Arts This Month


by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 20, 2023

'Doubt - A Parable' by playwright John Patrick Shanley is being presented as a special one-performance event as 'a staged play reading with scenes' at 3 p.m. June 25, 2023 in Munster, Ind....

Theatre at The Center Stage Rings in Holidays with DICKENS' CHRISTMAS CAROL DINNER SHOW


by Blair Ingenthron - November 20, 2022

Chicago Tribune Media Newspaper Columnist Philip Potempa and comedienne Jeannie Rapstad are joined by WJOB radio personality Tony Panek on the Theatre at the Center stage in December 2022 for a new and entertaining spin on Charles Dickens' holiday tale classic....

World Premiere ONCE UPON A FARM Transports Audiences To Stage Yesteryear


by A.A. Cristi - August 25, 2022

A new one-man multi-media play written, directed and performed by Columnist and Author Philip Potempa marks the first small-run of stage programming at Theatre at the Center at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road, in Munster, Indiana following the two-and-half-year hiatus foll...

LOVE LETTERS Returns To CVPA Ballroom For Valentine's Day Weekend


by A.A. Cristi - January 25, 2022

'Love Letters,' the timeless play by A.R. Gurney, will be presented for two dinner performances Saturday Feb. 12 in the ballroom at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road in Munster, Ind. Directed by William Pullinsi, 'Love Letters' will star Philip Potempa, noted newspaper colum...

DICKENS' CHRISTMAS CAROL DINNER SHOW to Return For The Holidays


by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 10, 2021

Chicago Tribune Media newspaper columnist Phil Potempa is reunited again with his longtime editor Crista Zivanovic to perform their Charles Dickens dinner show with five performances in 2021 as the highlight of the December holiday events at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road...

WINCHELL: ON THE AIR Will Debut in June in CVPA Ballroom


by Stephi Wild - May 01, 2021

'Winchell: On the Air' is a 70-minute 'in person' production which includes a multimedia element for audiences when it premieres with two performances June 10, 2021 at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 Ridge Road in Munster, Ind....

Past Shows

Doubt - A Parable


“DOUBT: A Parable” by playwright John Patrick Shanley  Presented as a staged play reading with scenes, with permission of the author and Dramatists Play Service, ...

Love Letters


Two dinner performances, noon and 6 p.m., of A.R. Gurney's play of love-crossed correspondence through the decades, starring newspaper columnist Philip Potempa and comedienne Jeannie ...

Dickens' Christmas Carol Dinner Show


A fun and frantic 55-minute stage reading with radio sound effects of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" starring Phil Potempa and Crista Zivanovic in the ...

Winchell: On the Air


Journalist and author Philip Potempa will appear in a new one-man play about the life and career of infamous newspaper gossip columnist and radio personality ...

Dickens' Christmas Carol Dinner Show


A Charles Dickens dinner show with two performances is a highlight of the December holiday events at The Center for Visual and Performing Arts, 1040 ...

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