Friday, Nov. 17
Bruce Springsteen’s Anytown
Anytown: Stories of America, sponsored by Dance St. Louis and Edison Theatre, is coming to the University this weekend, featuring daring choreographers from the ’80s dancing to Bruce Springsteen’s music. Songs including “Human Touch,” “Youngstown,” “Countin’ On a Miracle,” and “Born in the U.S.A.” all fit into the plot of three middle-class families struggling in daily life. Dancers Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith will perform the theater piece, penned by the duo along with their friends Soozie Tyrell and Patty Scialfa. Performances will be at the Edison Theatre on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and on Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18 for University students, and are available at the Edison Theatre box office, (314)-935-6543.
High 5 Improv Comedy
Suspicious of Whistlers wants you to surrender to their hilarious improv show. Free for students and $5 for everyone else. Begins 8 p.m. in Brown 100.
Coffee House Night
Ursa’s Nite Life presents Coffee House Night with live jazz from a band hailing from Chicago. Starts at 8 p.m.
The Magic of OMNIMAX
“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” the fourth movie in the Harry Potter series, will be showing on the titanic screen of the St. Louis Science Center’s OMNIMAX on Friday 7 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday 4 p.m. Tickets are $10, and $8 for students with ID. Call (314)-289-4424 for tickets. The magically breathtaking film will also be showing at the Science Center at the same dates and times for the next weekend.
“Comedy of Errors”
The Webster University production “Comedy of Errors” will be performed from Friday to Tuesday, on 8 p.m., and on 2 p.m. on Sunday. The play will take place at Browning Theatre, in the Loretto-Hilton Center. Watch a pair of identical twins, a faith healer, and a golden chain collide hilariously in a Mediterranean island town.
Saturday, Nov. 18
Visions Gospel Choir Fall Concert
Harambee Christian Ministries will be hosting their fall concert at Graham Chapel from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. The event is free of charge and is open to all. Harambee is the Washington University chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.
Sunday, Nov. 20
OrganFest
The newly refurbished Graham Chapel organ will be presented in “OrganFest,” a concert from the Washington University Symphony Orchestra. The concert, conducted by Dan Presgrave, will feature music from British composer William Walton, George Frideric Handel, Francis Poulenc, and Dmitri Shostakovich. Walton’s piece, Crown Imperial, features the organ as a standard piece of the orchestra, Handel and Poulenc’s pieces will a pair of contrasting organ concertos, and Shostakovich’s piece will close the concert. The event is free and open to the public, and will occur at 3 p.m.