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The Lakeshore Arts Alliance is a 501(c)3 Non Profit corporation that produces plays and musical theater as well as concerts, cabaret, lectures and film studies designed to showcase local talent.

Ten-year-old Anastasia is opinionated, sassy and funny. Really funny. Of course, she also has a funny name, but she’ll make up for it in this offbeat story taken right from the pages of her diary. It’s about all the things she loves—and hates—and what she plans to do about them. This memorable story is a wonderful portrait of childhood and family life, complete with all its ups and downs.

The Red Barn Theater’s film attraction -- under a new format -- for May 7 is the latest (2005) screen version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth, the eldest of the five Bennet sisters, and Donald Sutherland as the family patriarch. Matthew Macfadyen excels as Mr. Darcy, the standoffish wealthy visitor to the Bennet neighborhood who eventually becomes Elizabeth’s suitor.

Under the Barn’s new format for its regular Tuesday film studies, the theater’s board members, actors and technical crew will suggest films and host discussion.

Vicki Kavanaugh, who has acted in many Red Barn productions, will host Pride and Predjudice. “I suggested this particular version because it is very true to Jane Austen’s intent without being stuffy,” she said. Sentimentality also played a large part in her decision: “I like it because it was the first film for adults that I attended with my daughter, Allison.”

Join Ms. Kavanaugh at 6:30 p.m. in front of The Big Screen at The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Suggested donation is $5. Free popcorn and $1 concessions available. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net.

West Michigan’s popular Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company returns to the Red Barn Theater in Saugatuck May 10 at 7 p.m. in a special performance of Oscar Wilde’s brilliant comedy The Importance of Being Earnest.

Wilde employed such standard theatrical devices as mistaken identity, implausible coincidence and the ultimate victory of True Love in fashioning a classic commentary on contemporary mores that is as true today as it was in the late Victorian Era.

The Pigeon Creek players, used to performing the Bard’s stylish comedy, are more than up to the task of creating an arousing Earnest. The cast includes Scott Lange as Jack Worthing; Amy McFadden as Cecily Cardew; Kat Hermes as Miss Prism; Katherine Mayberry as Gwendolyn Fairfax; Heather Hartnett as Lane/Merriman; Zachary Johnson as Algernon Moncreiff; Janna Rosencranz as Canon Chausible, and Scott Wright in the plum role of Lady Augusta Bracknell.

Admission is $15 for Adults and $12 for Seniors, Students and Members of the Lakeshore Arts Alliance.

The Red Barn is located at 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Call (269) 857-5300 or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net for reservations or more information

This Red Barn Theater film attraction is Cards On the Table, a 2005 made-for-television film in which David Suchet as Hercule Poirot uses his redoubtable little gray cells to figure out who killed one of the world’s richest men during a game of bridge.

Peg Aalderink selected this version of Agatha Christie’s 1936 novel and will act as host in discussion of the film.

The wealthy Mr. Shaitana (Alexander Siddig) invites eight guests, whom he believes have gotten away with murder, and four detectives to his home. The detectives are to solve the murders and confront the killers. Unfortunately, during a game of bridge, someone stabs Mr. Shaitana to death. The four detectives question the suspects, but of course, only Poirot correctly figures the whole thing out, by reconstructing the bridge hands.

Join Ms. Aalderink at 6:30 p.m. in front of The Big Screen at The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Suggested donation is $5. Free popcorn and $1 concessions available. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net.

The Amazing Acro-Cats, one of the four "cat shows" in the United States, performs to sold-out venues across the country. Their performances delight and astound audiences of all ages.

The Amazing Acro-Cats delight and astound audiences of all ages as they perform their remarkable feats of agility pushing carts, riding skateboards, rolling barrels, ringing bells, turning on lights, walking tight ropes, jumping through hoops, knockabout acts and much more!

The Amazing Acro-Cats not only perform, but also educate the public. Samantha teaches the importance of, "Clicker Training" and how it can improve your cat's life, and also be useful in the event of an emergency situation.

The majority of The Amazing Acro-Cats were adopted from shelters. Keeping with that tradition, Master Trainer Samantha Martin now fosters shelter kittens and trains them not only to perform tricks, but important emergency situation maneuvers. These foster kittens have become a heart warming part of the performance as they eagerly wait for their new fur-ever home!

The seats are general admission, Adults $18, Children under 12, $15. The tickets are available through our website, www.circuscats.com There is a direct link to the ticket sales and other information to delight you about this fabulous act.

The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net

The Red Barn takes you to Texas for the Verdeen family reunion in "The Red Velvet Cake War." This wacky Southern-fried comedy finds the Verdeen cousins trying to keep it together as their family implodes, sending the gossip machinery of Sweetgum into full throttle. It starts off with Aunt LaMerle "accidentally" driving her minivan through her es-husband's girlfriends doublewide. It culminates with a high-stakes wager on who can make the best red velvet cake.

The Red Barn Theater’s film attraction for May 21 is Secondhand Lions (2003), a charming coming of age tale featuring Michael Caine and Robert Duvall as a pair of eccentric uncles who must care for their young nephew (newcomer Haley Joel Osment) after his mother ships him out.

Host for the film and discussion is John Huyge, Red Barn board member acting on behalf of Paul Gunneman, who selected the film for showing.

Written and directed by Tim McCanlies, Secondhand Lions places young Walter in the hands of his seemingly lunatic uncles, who through the boy learn that they can recreate their heroic pasts. Kyra Sedgwick is perfect as Walter’s tart of a mom who has spent most of his life seeking a permanent man among various “uncles.”

Of course, she really wants to get her hands on the great fortune the old men are supposed to have amassed in their various adventures, stealing from Al Capone among them. The uncles, at first reluctant to take Walter in, warm up to him and begin to share their story with him.

Join Mr. Huyge at 6:30 p.m. in front of The Big Screen at The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Suggested donation is $5. Free popcorn and $1 concessions available. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net.

The Red Barn Theater’s film attraction for May 28 is the 1989 version of Shakespeare’s patriotic epic Henry V, adapted, directed, and starring Kenneth Branagh in the title role. The production received immense critical praise, making the Laurence Olivier “patriotic” version of 1944 pale by comparison.

Paul Schofield, Derek Jacoby, Ian Holm, Emma Thompson, Alec McCowen, Judi Dench, Robbie Coltrane, Brian Blessed, and Christian Bale lead the incredibly accomplished supporting cast.

The play was Shakespeare’s coda to Henry IV, parts One and Two, which introduced the young crown prince and his dissolute drinking companions Falstaff, Bardolph, Nym and Pistol. That play started the prince on his way to adult responsibility. In Henry V, arrives as his own man, leading the English army in an invasion of

France

to recapture lost territory.

Andrew Plummer, a Red Barn acting stalwart, selected the film for showing and discussion.

Join Mr. Plummer at 6:30 p.m. in front of The Big Screen at The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Suggested donation is $5. Free popcorn and $1 concessions available. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net.

The Red Barn Theater’s film series kicks off a month of fantasy classics on June 4 with 1981’s Time Bandits, a rollicking story about a boy who joins a band of dwarves as they scoot from time-period to time-period looking for loot.

Directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam fellow “Monty Python” alum Michael Palin, the picture makes full use of an eclectic cast: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson (as the Supreme Being), Palin, and David Warner (the Evil Genius)

The Red Barn’s resident fantasists, Andrew Plummer and John Huyge, selected this film for showing and discussion, as well as the rest of June’s fantasy fare: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (June 11); Clash of the Titans (June 18), and Forbidden Planet (June 25).

Join Mr. Plummer and Mr.Huyge at 6:30 p.m. in front of The Big Screen at The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Suggested donation is $5. Free popcorn and $1 concessions available. Call (269) 857-5300 for more information or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net.

Lowell’s own folk rock quartet The Adams Family makes a return appearance at the Red Barn Theater in Saugatuck.
With a list of hits that begins alphabetically with the Beatles’ “All My Lovin’” and ends with the Kingston Trio’s “Worried Man”, the Adams Family features just about every folk-rock hit you have ever heard, and adds such novelty smashes as “Willie and the Hand Jive” by Johnny Otis, country hits like “Lonesome Blues” by Hank Williams, and such jazz pieces as “Trickle Trickle” by Manhattan Transfer.
The Adams Family really is a family, featuring Jerry Adams on vocals and guitar, his vocalist sister Cindy Adams Kropf, Jerry’s son Brian Adams on vocals and a variety of instruments, and Cindy’s husband, Dale Kropf on bass and background vocals.
Tickets for this one-night concert are $15.
For reservations of more information call (269) 857-5300 or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net. The Red Barn is at 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Highway, a quarter-mile east of Exit 41 off US I-196.

The Red Barn Theater’s film series continues a month of fantasy classics with 1958’s The 7th Voyage of Sinbad on June 11. The nominal stars are Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, and Richard Eyer, but critics swooned over the award winning special effects by Ray Harryhausen.

An evil magician (Torn Thatcher) shrinks the lovely Princess Parisa (Ms. Grant, aka Mrs. Bing Crosby) as she and Sinbad (Mathews) are traveling to their wedding in Baghdad. Sinbad swings into action with the aid of a boy genie (Eyer). Along the way, they meet all manner of monsters and freaks, which gives Harryhausen ample opportunity to exercise his special effects chops.

The Red Barn’s resident fantasists, Andrew Plummer and John Huyge, selected this film for showing and discussion, as well as the rest of June’s fantasy fare: Clash of the Titans (June 18), and Forbidden Planet (June 25).

Growing up is touch if you're a 10-year-old girl with a funny name. It's even more so if you're stubbornly independent and a bit quirky!

ANASTASIA KRUPNIK is a delightful, refreshing and offbeat tale that the young and the young at heart will enjoy.

The play coincides with the opening of the Red Barn Summer 2013 Art Exhibit of works by Saugatuck/Douglas Middle School Students designed by Art instructor Danielle Sanregret.

Admission is $15 for Adults and $12 for Seniors, Students and Members of the Lakeshore Arts Alliance. Group Rates of 4+ only $8 each.

The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. $1 concessions available. Call (269) 857-5300 or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net for reservations or more information

The Red Barn Theater’s film series continues a month of fantasy classics with 1981’s Clash of the Titans on June 11, with an incredibly accomplished cast of Shakespeareans in supporting roles: Laurence Olivier as Zeus, Claire Bloom as Hera, and Maggie Smith as Thetis. Oh, and don’t forget Ursula Andress as every male’s version of Aphrodite, goddess of love.

The story is well recounted in Greek mythology. Perseus (Harry Hamlin) must battle such monsters as Medusa and the Kraken to save the lovely Andromeda (Judi Bowker). To make matters worse, the gods take sides. Andromeda was betrothed to Thetis’s son, so she jumps in against Perseus. Fortunately, Zeus decides to help him.

The Red Barn’s resident fantasists, Andrew Plummer and John Huyge, selected this film for showing and discussion, as well as the remainder of June’s fantasy fare: Forbidden Planet (June 25).

Growing up is touch if you're a 10-year-old girl with a funny name. It's even more so if you're stubbornly independent and a bit quirky!

ANASTASIA KRUPNIK is a delightful, refreshing and offbeat tale that the young and the young at heart will enjoy.

The play coincides with the opening of the Red Barn Summer 2013 Art Exhibit of works by Saugatuck/Douglas Middle School Students designed by Art instructor Danielle Sanregret.

Admission is $15 for Adults and $12 for Seniors, Students and Members of the Lakeshore Arts Alliance. Group Rates of 4+ only $8 each.

The Red Barn Theater’s film series winds up a month of fantasy classics with 1956’s Forbidden Planet on June 25. Starring the very serious Walter Pidgeon as Doctor Morbius, the statuesque Anne Francis as his daughter Alta, and Leslie Nielsen (he plays it straight in this one) as Commander Adams, this film is famous for bringing to the screen Robby the Robot, with his keen eye for “danger!”

Commander Adams and his crew arrive at a planet where a scientific mission had landed 20 years previously. They find that all but two humans have died: Doctor Morbius and his daughter, only survivors of an onslaught by a monster that roams the planet. What’s more, Morbius has discovered that a race of geniuses had inhabited the planet and disappeared, leaving behind technology that humans can barely comprehend.

The Red Barn’s resident fantasists, Andrew Plummer and John Huyge, selected this film for showing and discussion, as with all of as the previous of June’s fantasy fare.

The James Michael Marks Trio
Special guests "a touch of brass"
Playing the best of jazz standards to recreate a night at the Copa! Music from Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Nat King Cole and more...
You will think that the Red Barn has been transformed into New York's hottest 1950s Night Club!

The Red Barn, 3657 63rd St. at Blue Star Hwy., Saugatuck, about a quarter mile east of Exit 41 off of I-196. Call (269) 857-5300 or email lakeshorearts@comcast.net for reservations or more information

The Eschelons are hanging up their bass guitar, sexy sax and microphones this Summer! We love their renditions of the songs we grew up with in the 50's and 60s and are so honored to be on their Farewell Tour.

Admission is only $15 to hear West Michigan Music Hall of Famers, The Eschelons , perform at The Red Barn.

Admission is $15 for Adults and $12 for Seniors, Students and Members of the Lakeshore Arts Alliance.

In this riotously funny Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins—Gaynelle,

Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette—could not have picked a worse time to throw their family

reunion. Their outrageous antics have delighted local gossips in the small town of Sweetgum

and the eyes of Texas are upon them. a jaw-dropping high-stakes wager is made on who

bakes the best red velvet cake. As this fast-paced romp barrels toward its uproarious

Admission is only $15 for Adults, $12 for Seniors, Students and LAA Members Inquire about special group rates.