Southern heavy metal band Jackyl and Chicago rapper Twista will play shows at the Hobart Art Theatre next month.
The historic Art Deco movie theater at 230 Main St. in downtown Hobart has a host of live music events coming up.
Jackyl, a Georgia-based hard rock group that sold a million copies of its first, self-titled album and is known for a chainsaw solo on The Lumberjack, will perform an all-ages show at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21. Tickets are $25, with the opening acts yet to be announced.
The prolific live act, which trended on the charts in the 1990s and often performs in Northwest Indiana, holds a Guinness World Record for playing 50 concerts in 100 days.
The Region s movie theaters have been reeling as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that s caused moviegoers to stay home and Hollywood studios to put off big releases they ve often invested hundreds of millions of dollars in.
GQT Portage 16 IMAX + GDX and Hoosier Theatre in Whiting have remained closed since COVID-19 spread around the world in March. Most of the Region s multiplexes reopened in August but have had a rough go of it.
Parking lots once packed with cars have become largely vacant seas of asphalt. So few people have been going to the movies that AMC Schererville 12, AMC Classic Hobart 12, AMC Classic Michigan City 14 and Cinemark at Valparaiso are operating on reduced three-day schedules, only open on the weekends. The only multiplex in Northwest Indiana still open during the week â AMC Schererville â is no longer showing matinees during the day on weekdays, limiting most screenings to the evenings.