Friday Live: Tada Theatre

The Tada Theatre in Lincoln celebrates 1960s girl-power with the hippest show around: SHOUT! The Mod Musical. February 7-March 3. Tada brings back the beautiful birds and smashing sounds that made England swing in the 1960s with songs that made Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Petula Clark, and Cilla Black household names. The Prairie Winds Art Center of downtown Grand Island opens its annual PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW AND COMPETITION, Friday Feb. 1st. Friday Live chats with judge, Russell Hansen, a nationally known photographer from Kearney. Celebrate Mardi Gras at the Lied Center with Grammy winner TERRANCE SIMIEN & THE ZYDECO EXPERIENCE, Friday, Feb 1. Terrance starts the good times rolling on Friday Live with his blend of Zydeco, Cajun, roots, funk and reggae music that will transport you to Bourbon Street. Begun by jazz-lover, the late Butch Berman, The Berman Music Foundation has now donated its archives to the UNL School of Music Library. UNL Librarian Anita Breckbill, Friday Live commentator Tom Ineck, and the foundation’s Grace Ganu chat up this great gift to music students.
Nebraska Wesleyan University’s spring Visiting Writers Series features authors involved in music. Series Coordinator Brad Tice previews the Thursday, February 7th reading and talk in Rogers Center for Fine Arts by Charlotte Pence, editor of The Poetics of American Song Lyrics, and Adam Prince, whose award-winning fiction has appeared in The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, and Narrative Magazine. All that, a Ross film review by our new reviewer Kwakiutl Dreher, an All About Books encore, and a statewide arts calendar.