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The historic Newtown Theatre has a busy April with upcoming events.
The theater on North State Street will host “An Evening with Livingston Taylor” on Friday, April 14 at 8 p.m.
Taylor is a professional musician with a 50-year career that covered performance, songwriting, and teaching. Taylor, who has released 22 albums, performs more than 100 shows per year and plays folk, pop, gospel, and jazz and upbeat storytelling.
The theater is selling tickets for $45 per person or $40 for members. If tickets remain the night of the show, they will sell at the door for $55.
Beer, wine, and canned cocktails will be available for purchase before and during the show.
On Friday, April 21 at 8 p.m., the Newtown Theatre will present “The Music of the Band” featuring Professor Louie and The Crowmatix with The Woodstock Horns.
Since 2000, the Grammy-nominated Professor Louie and The Crowmatix have performed on stage. For more than 16 years, Louie worked with The Band, producing their final three albums and performing on and producing their comeback single, Atlantic City.
The set list for this show will be varied, including songs by The Band, Bob Dylan, and original compositions by Professor Louie and The Crowmatix.
Tickets are $30 per person or $25 for members. Remaining tickets will be sold for $40 at the door on the night of the show if they are available).
Beer, wine, and canned cocktails will be available for purchase before and during the show.
In celebration of Earth Day, the Newtown Theatre will team up with local environmental groups to present a special movie screening and panel discussion on Saturday, April 22 at 7 p.m.
The night will begin with a screening of several short environmental documentaries, including “Wild in the Garden State,” which follows a New Jersey couple who turned their suburban lawn into a beautiful ecological garden.
After the screening of the documentaries, a panel of experts will discuss the following topics: “Becoming a Greener Consumer,” “Greening Your Food Dollars,” “Re-wilding Your Backyard,” and “Shifting to Renewable Energy.”
The panel will be moderated by WHYY host Marty Moss-Coane.
Panelists will include:
• Phil Coleman, president of aFewSteps.org, a non-profit dedicated to reducing the energy costs and carbon footprint of the communities of the Wallingford-Swarthmore School District
• Faran Savitz, from PennEnvironment, a policy and action group with a mission of building a greener, healthier world
• Alisa Shargorodsky, founder and CEO of ECHO Systems, a circular model for reuse in grocery, restaurant, and event spaces
• Mary Anne Borge, a naturalist and instructor at Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, a Pennsylvania master naturalist, and editor of Butterfly Gardener
• Robin Hoy, founder and a director of the Bucks County Foodshed Alliance, founder of the Wrightstown Farmers Market, and co-chair of the Wrightstown Township Environmental Advisory Council
Partners on the event include the Newtown Township, Newtown Borough and Wrightstown Township Environmental Advisory Councils, the Bucks County Audubon Society at Honey Hollow, Bowman’s Hill Wildflower Preserve, Bucks County Foodshed Alliance, Wrightstown Farmers Market, Bucks County Ready for 100, the Heritage Conservancy, and PennEnvironment.
Tickets for the event are $15 per person or $10 for members of the Newtown Theatre or any of the partner organizations. If any tickets remain, they will be sold for $25 at the door on the night of the event.
The Newtown Chamber Orchestra will have their annual performance of “Peter and the Wolf” on Sunday, April 23 at 3 p.m.
The family-friendly concert that is narrated will include audience participation, an instrumental “petting zoo” that gives children the chance to touch musical instruments and speak with their players, and a take-home booklet of fun educational materials.
The show’s length is designed to cater to the the attention span of young kids.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for theatre members, and $15 for children 12 and under when purchased online at TheNewtownTheatre.com/concerts. Tickets purchased at the door on the day of the performance are $25 for everyone.
