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Sunday, March 23, 2025
Jersey Boys
Mar 23 @ 7:30 pm
Greenville Little Theatre

“Oh, What a Night!” Don’t miss your chance to see this Tony Award-winning, blockbuster musical. Discover the true story behind legendary recording artist, The Four Seasons and their chart-topping hits “Sherry,” “Big Girl Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” and more!

This show is rated R for language, mature themes, and adult content.

  • Thursday, Friday, and Saturday shows at 7:30pm. Sunday shows at 3:00pm.
Say What?! Poetry Slam and Open Mic
Mar 23 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Coffee Underground

Read or perform your own original poems, plus hear great local and touring poets. Sundays 7:30pm-9:45pm. Open Mic–$5. Feature & Slams –$10.

Cabaret
Mar 23 @ 8:00 pm
Centre Stage

In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920’s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken with English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally’s boarding house, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish. Musical numbers include “Willkommen,” “Cabaret,” “Don’t Tell Mama” and “Two Ladies.”

March 13- 30, 2025. Time: Thurs- Sat @ 8 pm, Sun @ 3pm.

Monday, March 24, 2025
Reading Challenge Salon Series: Home Gardening Panel
Mar 24 @ 5:30 pm
M. Judson Booksellers

To celebrate March’s Reading Challenge topic, Botany, we are hosting a panel of local master gardeners! Join us for this free event and come armed with all of your questions about your home garden!

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Neighborhood Breakfast
Mar 25 @ 7:30 am
Memorial United Methodist Church

Join us for breakfast and table discussions about Greer Relief. Each year we invite neighbors to come together in a common goal to eliminate poverty and equip our neighbors to overcome barriers to success.

You will learn: who we are, what we do, and how YOU can get involved.

You must RSVP.

 

 

One by Kathryn Otoshi, featuring the GSO String Quartet
Mar 25 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
South Carolina Children's Theatre

Join musicians of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and Traysie Amick, Principal Teaching Artist of the South Carolina Children’s Theatre for fun and interactive performances of your favorite children’s books! Performances are Tuesday mornings, 11:00 am in the lobby of the South Carolina Children’s Theatre, 153 Augusta St, Greenville, SC 29601. One by Kathryn Otoshi, featuring the GSO String Quartet on March 25, 2025 at 11:00 am. SCCT – South Carolina Children’s Theatre, 153 Augusta St, Greenville, SC 29601. About Once Upon an Orchestra.

Babe Ruth Talk led by Tim Fehler
Mar 25 @ 7:00 pm
Hughes Main Library

This event is a discussion, not an in-character performance. Hughes Main Library and Online

Charlotte Hornets vs. Orlando Magic
Mar 25 @ 7:00 pm
Spectrum Center

Come check out the Charlotte Hornets at the Spectrum Center.

Page Pairings
Mar 25 @ 7:30 pm
M. Judson Booksellers

Join us for a book-inspired wine tasting!

We pair the qualities of each wine with a book that shares the same spirit. Your ticket to the tasting, apart from the tastes, includes your choice of one of the featured books. Bottles of the featured wines will be for sale at great prices, too.

This event is a crowd favorite, serving as a great date, a perfect girls night out, or treat to yourself.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Bob Ray: Suit Yourself
Mar 26 @ 10:00 am
Greenville County Museum of Art

Bob Ray (b. 1952) works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and even correspondence and performance. Born in Warrensburg, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, he now lives with his wife in the small town of Washington in eastern North Carolina.

Guest-curated by Mark Sloan, Bob Ray: Suit Yourself features a selection of the artist’s most recent paintings and drawings. Inspired by the Abstract Expressionist painters, Ray also draws from the Dada and Fluxus movements. Each of Ray’s artworks offers evidence of its own evolution. Erasures, false starts, notes, scribbles, overpainting, and tentative asides are visible on the layered surfaces. The artist incorporates household substances into his work, including housepaint, tar, masking tape, coffee, butter, tea, and collaged fragments of previous works.

Ray was the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in 2015, and he has had recent shows at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina; Lump Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina; and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

The GCMA has published an exhibition catalog of Ray’s works that includes a commissioned collaboration with California poet Allison Benis White, which will be available for purchase.

Storytime on the Steps
Mar 26 @ 10:30 am
M. Judson Booksellers

Bring your littles to the front steps of M. Judson for our bi-weekly story time! Enjoy some wonderful picture books read aloud to the crowd by our very own booksellers, and children will even get a sweet treat to go.

Retracing the Keowee Trail: A Deep Map of the Cherokee Path in the History of the Carolinas
Mar 26 @ 12:00 pm
Upcountry History Museum

In Retracing the Keowee Trail, Stuart Taylor tells the story of the Cherokee Path that connected the low country of colonial Carolina with the mountain homeland of the Cherokee Nation. The Keowee Trail was a busy trading route for a burgeoning deerskin trade. Along this same path, epidemic disease made its way inexorably from the colony toward Cherokee society, reducing their population by more than half. Along this path, warfare was waged in both directions, by Cherokee war parties determined to defend their homeland and by settlers like the author’s Scots Irish ancestors, evermore hungry for land. That ancestral history is an entry point into this larger narrative. A “deep map” approach to the Keowee Trail will hold together multiple lines of perspective, including memoir, family history, migration patterns, religious history, Indigenous wisdom, trauma theory, ghost stories, mythology, archeology, geography, the watersheds, and the flora and fauna of the Southern Appalachians.

Lunchbox Learning is free for UHM Members and included with general admission for all other guests.

Wellness Wednesday: Free Public Wellness Clinic
Mar 26 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Merrill Gardens Greenville

Join us for Wellness Wednesday at Merrill Gardens Independent Living. Stay on top of your health with free balance testing, glucose monitoring, BP Checks and MORE! All Welcome to Attend!

Books Over Drinks with Kim Fay
Mar 26 @ 7:30 pm
M. Judson Booksellers

From the author of instant national bestseller Love & Saffron, this bright and comforting novel follows the surprising friendship between two young women in 1990s Seattle and Paris, illuminating the power of books to change our lives. If you love Elif Batuman or Ruth Reichl, you do not want to miss Books Over Drinks with Kim Fay!

Thursday, March 27, 2025
Bob Ray: Suit Yourself
Mar 27 @ 10:00 am
Greenville County Museum of Art

Bob Ray (b. 1952) works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, and even correspondence and performance. Born in Warrensburg, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, he now lives with his wife in the small town of Washington in eastern North Carolina.

Guest-curated by Mark Sloan, Bob Ray: Suit Yourself features a selection of the artist’s most recent paintings and drawings. Inspired by the Abstract Expressionist painters, Ray also draws from the Dada and Fluxus movements. Each of Ray’s artworks offers evidence of its own evolution. Erasures, false starts, notes, scribbles, overpainting, and tentative asides are visible on the layered surfaces. The artist incorporates household substances into his work, including housepaint, tar, masking tape, coffee, butter, tea, and collaged fragments of previous works.

Ray was the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in 2015, and he has had recent shows at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina; Lump Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina; and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

The GCMA has published an exhibition catalog of Ray’s works that includes a commissioned collaboration with California poet Allison Benis White, which will be available for purchase.

Downtown Alive featuring Bobby Power
Mar 27 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
NOMA Square

NOMA Square. 220 North Main Street.

Piedmont Natural Gas Downtown Alive presented by Spectrum benefiting Metropolitan Arts Council, kicks off the weekend every Thursday night with music at NOMA Square on Main Street. FREE ADMISSION. More than 45,000 people attend this event annually. The event serves as the single largest fundraiser for the Metropolitan Arts Council. Piedmont Natural Gas Downtown Alive opens at 5:30 p.m. and closes at 8:30 p.m. Bands play two sets at 5:50 p.m. and 7:20 p.m

A Sunset Soirée in Old Key West -11th Annual Season Reveal Gala
Mar 27 @ 6:30 pm
Chapman Cultural Center

Join Spartanburg Little Theatre for a glamorous evening in old Key West, as they unveil their 2025-2026 season!

6:30-8:00 pm: Gala & Silent Auction

House opens at 7:30 for General Seating

8:00-9:00 pm: Season reveal performance

9:00-10:00 pm: Silent Auction pickup and dance party

Attire: Cocktail or golden age Key West glamour

Tickets:

$ 65.00 through February 28th

$75.00 March 1-27

Your ticket includes beer, wine, signature cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and General Admission seating to our Season Reveal Performance.

Proceeds benefit Spartanburg Little Theatre & Spartanburg Youth Theatre

***Ticket Sales are Non-Refundable

True Home Open Mic at Flood Gallery
Mar 27 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Flood Gallery

Uncensored expression: anyone is invited to step up to share song, music, poetry, comedy, rants & raves!

The most eclectic open mic around, in a welcoming gallery setting! 6 pm signup, perform 6:30-8:30 pm.

An Introduction to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Mar 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Upstate International

Join Upstate International and Furman University’s Department of Politics & International Affairs for an engaging discussion with Dr. Akan Malici as he explores key themes from his newly released book, “An Introduction to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Dr. Malici will break down the complexities of the ongoing conflict between Palestine and Israel with clarity and academic rigor, providing valuable insights into the historical context. Don’t miss this FREE thought-provoking discussion—reserve your spot today!