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From The Mountaintop
In Katori Hall s The Mountaintop, it is April 3, 1968, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is in room 306 of the Lorraine Motel. It s the day before his murder, and he has just given the speech I ve Been to the Mountaintop at a Memphis Mason Temple.
(Courtesy Duluth Playhouse)
The Duluth Playhouse is hosting a virtual staged reading of the play, which starred Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett when it played on Broadway, to celebrate Martin Luther King Day.
Actor Gabriel Mayfield is King in this reading, and Daysha Ramsey is Camae, a maid who visits with him.
Enjoy Rubber Chicken Theater s Here We Come A-Quarantining
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News Tribune | 12:00 pm, Jan. 1, 2021 a short, virtual production of original Christmas carol parodies, streams on Rubber Chicken s YouTube Channel into 2021. The video is free but donations are welcome. For information, email Brian@RubberChickenTheater.com.
The Duluth Playhouse will be streaming
“Songs of the Season,” featuring local singers, including Carolyn LePine, Gabriel Mayfield, Shad Olsen and Christina Stroup. Stream it on YouTube through Sunday, Jan. 3. Donations accepted. Donations accepted.
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Don t miss the reading of the Christmas City Express story.
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Cheryl Skafte of Duluth reads “The Christmas Express” story to passengers big and small at the Duluth Depot in 2014. This year s event will be online. (File / News Tribune)
This year the holiday trains at North Shore Scenic Railroad and Lake Superior Railroad Museum will be sitting still amidst this pandemic shutdown so for the first time ever, the annual holiday reading of the Christmas City Express
story will be done via live webcast at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19. If viewers choose, they will be able to order the Christmas City Express book, ornament and teddy bear during the webcast. Money raised will support the mission of the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. The performance features the actors who are also the authors of the book:
Check out the Christmas Story at six local churches.
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This year s DanceWorks performance features choreography by students and University of Minnesota Duluth faculty and robots. (2018 photo / Brett Groehler, UMD)
ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) congregations invite you into your car to drive through Duluth and the
Christmas Story. Six Duluth area Lutheran Churches are working together to tell the Christmas story with a lighted display on each campus. To participate, start at Elim Lutheran Church, 6101 Cody St., for the first scene and drive from there to the next five scenes. An accompanying online video (or paper packet) provides the Bible story, reflections, prayer, and music. Displays will be lit from 4:30-11 p.m. through Dec. 25.