Weekend events: family-vacation comedy, theater in the round, sisterly art exhibit (Sept. 19)
Memories of family vacation
A family-friendly comedy about family vacations, “Leaving Iowa,” will be performed Thursday through Sept. 27 at Friends University. Friends’ Theatre Department will perform the play by Tim Clue and Spike Manton at 7:30 nightly in the Riney Fine Arts Center’s Sebits Auditorium. Tickets are $11 for adults, $9 for seniors and students, available online at friends.edu/finearts or by calling the box office at 316-295-5677.
Sit onstage for ‘Orphans’
The audience will be up close with the actors as well as with the center’s upgraded light and sound system when the Wichita Center for the Arts presents two weekends of “Orphans,” a show about two adult brothers and the gangster who becomes their father figure. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays from Sept. 19 to 21 and from Sept. 26 to 28. A wine and cheese reception will precede the first show, at 7 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for members and seniors, and $15 for students, online at wcfta.com, by calling 316-315-0151 or at the center at 9112 E. Central.
A sisterly art show
Mary Erickson is a Wichita artist who didn’t know about her sister’s paintings until after Anne Chaney died in March at age 81 and her family found her watercolors in her Maryland basement. Now, from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday and 5 to 8 p.m. Sept. 26, the works of both sisters will be featured in a show at Artist Central, 5014 E. Central. Anne Chaney gave generously to charitable causes, so proceeds from the sale of the sisters’ art will go to Trees for Life and the Clifton Square Foundation.
Annie Calovich
This story was originally published September 17, 2014 at 4:28 PM with the headline "Weekend events: family-vacation comedy, theater in the round, sisterly art exhibit (Sept. 19)."