Paula Poundstone
2024-09-13 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Chicago) | Lyche Theatre, 428 Front Street, South, La Crosse, 54601
Paula Poundstone is a standup comedian, author, and podcaster. She regularly plays theatres across the country, hosts a weekly comedy podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone, and is a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me.Poundstone has starred in several HBO specials, including Cats, Cops and Stuff, which nabbed a cable ACE award for Best Comedy Special. She was the first female comic to host the White House Correspondents Dinner. She filed live coverage of the 1992 Democratic and Republican National Conventions and the Presidential Inaugural for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and at the 93rd Emmy Awards. Poundstone has starred in two television series, both entitled, The Paula Poundstone Show. Her second book, The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness, was one of eight semi-finalists for the Thurber Prize For American Humor; the audiobook was one of five finalists for the AUDIE award for Audiobook of the Year. Poundstone has released five albums and is featured in several documentaries and compendiums noting influential comedians of our time. Presented by the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:The Viterbo University Fine Arts Center’s official and exclusive ticketing partner is OvationTix. Make sure you are buying directly through that platform. We do not use a third-party ticket reseller/vendor. Do not purchase through unauthorized resellers, as we will not be able to guarantee entry. If you are using a search engine to find tickets, be careful. Unauthorized sites with overpriced/counterfeit/invalid tickets are often listed above official ones. If you come across an offer online/on social media for resale tickets, please be extra cautious. If there is a ticket offer–especially from someone you do not know–that seems too good to be true, it is probably fake.

Dates

Friday, Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m.

Pricing

Church and State
2024-09-20 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-09-21 19:30 - 22:00
Elections. The Twitter. Guns. God..

Music, Book & Story by Music by Steve Martin | Book & Story by Edie Brickell

Three days before his bid for reelection, in the wake of a school shooting in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, a Republican U.S. senator makes an off-the-cuff comment to a blogger that gets leaked on “the Twitter,” calling into question the senator’s stance on guns and God. As his devoutly Christian wife and liberal Jewish campaign manager try to contain the damage, this look at how religion influences politics and how politics has become a religion is simultaneously funny, heartbreaking, and uplifting.

Dates

September 20, 2024 – 7:30pm

September 21, 2024 – 7:30pm

Pricing

All Things Equal: The Life & Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2024-09-21 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-09-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Lyche Theatre, 428 Front Street, South, La Crosse, 54601
In this play, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (“RBG”) welcomes a friend of the family to her cozy chambers to convey—over the course of ninety fascinating and often funny minutes—a sense of her life and trials: losing her mother the day before she graduated as valedictorian of her Brooklyn high school; being one of only nine young women studying law at Harvard while also raising a daughter and helping her husband battle cancer; fighting for women’s rights in the 1970s before condescending all-male courts; and taking courageous stands for human rights as a voice of reason amid a splintering and increasingly politicized Supreme Court. An evening with a great and compassionate icon of straight-thinking American justice emerges…an RBG who is not only “notorious” but victorious as she takes a stand for ordinary people facing the many challenges of a changing world. Presented by the Viterbo University Fine Arts Center.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:The Viterbo University Fine Arts Center’s official and exclusive ticketing partner is OvationTix. Make sure you are buying directly through that platform. We do not use a third-party ticket reseller/vendor. Do not purchase through unauthorized resellers, as we will not be able to guarantee entry. If you are using a search engine to find tickets, be careful. Unauthorized sites with overpriced/counterfeit/invalid tickets are often listed above official ones. If you come across an offer online/on social media for resale tickets, please be extra cautious. If there is a ticket offer–especially from someone you do not know–that seems too good to be true, it is probably fake.

Dates

Saturday, Sept. 21 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Pricing

LIONEL BART'S OLIVER!
2024-10-04 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-10-05 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-12 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-19 14:00 - 16:30 | Lyche Theatre, 428 Front Street, South, La Crosse, 54601
Consider Yourself at Home!

Consider yourself at home with Lionel Bart’s classic musical based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist. The streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker. Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance among a group of petty thieves and pickpockets led by the elderly Fagin.

When Oliver is captured for a theft he did not commit, the benevolent victim, Mr. Brownlow, takes him in. Fearing the safety of his hideout, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes and the sympathetic Nancy to kidnap him back, threatening Oliver’s chances of discovering the true love of a family.

Oliver! is a musical theatre masterpiece, perfectly showcasing the talents of a large ensemble cast as they bring these classic characters and score to life.

A La Crosse Community Theatre Productionby special arrangement with Cameron MackintoshBook, Music and Lyrics by Lionel BartFreely adapted from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist

Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Dates

October 4, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 5, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

October 6, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

October 10, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 11, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 12, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

October 13, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

October 17, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 18, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 19, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

October 20, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

Pricing

Student and Military Discounts are available.

LIONEL BART'S OLIVER!
2024-10-06 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-10 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-10-11 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-10-13 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-17 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-10-18 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-10-20 14:00 - 16:30 | Lyche Theatre, 428 Front Street, South, La Crosse, 54601
Consider Yourself at Home!

Consider yourself at home with Lionel Bart’s classic musical based on the Charles Dickens novel, Oliver Twist. The streets of Victorian England come to life as Oliver, a malnourished orphan in a workhouse, becomes the neglected apprentice of an undertaker. Oliver escapes to London and finds acceptance among a group of petty thieves and pickpockets led by the elderly Fagin.

When Oliver is captured for a theft he did not commit, the benevolent victim, Mr. Brownlow, takes him in. Fearing the safety of his hideout, Fagin employs the sinister Bill Sikes and the sympathetic Nancy to kidnap him back, threatening Oliver’s chances of discovering the true love of a family.

Oliver! is a musical theatre masterpiece, perfectly showcasing the talents of a large ensemble cast as they bring these classic characters and score to life.

A La Crosse Community Theatre Productionby special arrangement with Cameron MackintoshBook, Music and Lyrics by Lionel BartFreely adapted from Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist

Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Dates

October 4, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 5, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 6, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

October 10, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 11, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 12, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 13, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

October 17, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 18, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 19, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

October 20, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

Pricing

Student and Military Discounts are available.

Ballet La Crosse Presents Alice in Wonderland
2024-10-26 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-10-26 19:00 - 21:30, 2024-10-27 14:00 - 16:30 | Lyche Theatre, 428 Front Street, South, La Crosse, 54601
Ballet La Crosse is proud to present Alice in Wonderland. Journey down the rabbit hole with Alice as she encounters chess pieces, playing cards and other well-known characters from Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking-Glass.” With original choreography by the renowned Kennet Oberly, music by Benjamin Britten, and starring a cast of more than 70 dancers, “Alice in Wonderland” will delight audience members of all ages. This uniquely whimsical version offers a deeper look into Carroll’s dream world as seen through a child’s imagination.

Dates

October 26th- 2pm

October 26th- 7pm

October 27th- 2pm

Pricing

Youth Balcony- $15

Youth Orchestra- $17

Adult Balcony- $25

Adult Orchestra- $29

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
2024-11-15 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-11-16 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-11-17 14:00 - 16:30 | Lyche Theatre, 428 Front Street, South, La Crosse, 54601
Experience the existential hilarity as two of Shakespeare’s iconic characters from Hamlet embark on a journey through life’s big questions with humor and wit. Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning modern classic seamlessly blends philosophy and farce to deliver a thought-provoking yet uproariously funny exploration of fate, free will, and the absurdity of existence.Produced by the Viterbo University Conservatory for the Performing Arts.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:The Viterbo University Fine Arts Center’s official and exclusive ticketing partner is OvationTix. Make sure you are buying directly through that platform. We do not use a third-party ticket reseller/vendor. Do not purchase through unauthorized resellers, as we will not be able to guarantee entry. If you are using a search engine to find tickets, be careful. Unauthorized sites with overpriced/counterfeit/invalid tickets are often listed above official ones. If you come across an offer online/on social media for resale tickets, please be extra cautious. If there is a ticket offer–especially from someone you do not know–that seems too good to be true, it is probably fake.

Dates

Friday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 p.m.Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m.Sunday, Nov. 17 at 2 p.m.

Pricing

Deer Camp
2024-11-29 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-11-30 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-12-06 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-12-07 19:30 - 22:00 | Veterans Studio Theatre, 428 Front Street, South, La Crosse, WI, 54601, United States
We’re Mighty Hunters!

Four buddies are enjoying their annual deer hunting trip, but this year is different. After 15 years of them coming home with nothing but a hangover, their wives have given them an ultimatum: bag a deer, or your deer camp days are over. Only one hurdle stands in their way— none of them know how to hunt. Do they buy one? Steal one? Could they possibly try to… shoot one? In this wacky musical, it seems the only ones safe in the woods are the deer, but with song and dance, a bit of chance, and some audience interaction, their prayers are answered just as they run out of beer.

Written by Gene JurekMusic by Doug SpartzMusical Arrangements by Ken Vork

Deer Camp is presented by special arrangement withBroadway Licensing Global.(www.broadwaylicensing.com)

Dates

November 29, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

November 30, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

December 6, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

December 7, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

December 13, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

December 14, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

December 20, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

December 21, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

Pricing

White Christmas
2024-12-06 19:30 - 22:30, 2024-12-07 14:00 - 16:30, 2024-12-08 14:00 - 16:30 | Lyche Theatre, 428 Front Street, South, La Crosse, 54601
I’m Dreaming

Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil’s former army commander. With a dazzling score featuring well-known standards including “Blue Skies,” “I Love A Piano,” “How Deep Is the Ocean” and the perennial title song, White Christmas is an uplifting, wholesome musical that will delight audiences of all ages.

Based Upon the Paramount Pictures FilmWritten For the Screen by Norman KrasnaNorman Panama and Melvin FrankMusic and Lyrics by Irving BerlinBook by David Ives and Paul BlakeOriginal stage production directed by Walter BobbieOrchestrations – Larry BlankVocal and Dance Arrangements – Bruce Pomahac

IRVING BERLIN’S WHITE CHRISTMAS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.www.concordtheatricals.com

Dates

December 6, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

December 7, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

December 8, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

December 11, 2024 @ 7:30 pm – Veteran’s Appreciation Performance!

December 12, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

December 13, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

December 14, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

December 15, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

December 19, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

December 20, 2024 @ 7:30 pm

December 21, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

December 22, 2024 @ 2:00 pm

Pricing

Student and Military Discounts are available.

Sponsored by Altra Federal Credit Union

White Christmas - Veteran's Appreciation Performance
2024-12-11 19:30 - 22:30 | Lyche Theatre, 428 Front Street, South, La Crosse, 54601
