Rocky Horror Special New Years Eve Show

One performance only

Richard O'Brien's 

The Rocky Horror Show 

featuring an "all-star" cast 

Wednesday, December 31 at 10 PM

One more time? It's like some kind of Time Warp.

What better way to put paid to 2025 than being at the Strand when Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show returns to the stage one more time.

Come join Frank-N-Furter, Brad, Janet, Riff Raff, Columbia, Magenta, Eddie, Dr. Scott, Rocky...and all the Transylvanians, as we all do the time warp as 2025 ends and 2026 launches...

It's just like "a late night double feature picture show...from RKO"

"Just a sweet transvestite from transexual Transylvania..."

"Dammit, Janet..."

"In just seven days, I can make you a man..."

"He thought it was the candyman..."

"The sword of Damocles is hanging over my head..."

"What a guy, made you cry, und I did..."

"Touch-a, touch-a, touch-a, touch me..."

"Crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race, lost in time, and Lost in Space..."

Hot patootie, bless my soul Really love that Rock and Roll..." 

Advance tickets are $20 in advance at Highway 61 Coffeehouse and online https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6759757 (service charge for online sales)

 

They will be $25 at the door.

SALT at the Strand

 

SALT

Strand Theatre

Saturday, December 6

at 7 PM

 

Angelina Jolie...

 

Loyal CIA operative Evelyn Salt fights to disprove accusations that she's a Russian spy, only to find that the harder she works to prove her innocence, the more suspicious her superiors become of her true motives. With CIA agent Peabody hot on her trail, the stakes get higher with each second she eludes capture.

 

Free popcorn...

 

Tickets are available at Highway 61 Coffeehouse in advance for $9. They will be $10 at the door...

Look, when it's cold outside, it will likely be pretty cold in the Strand. Dress accordingly.

Charade Free at the Strand Theatre Friday after Thanksgiving

Gary Sessums is sponsoring a Thanksgiving gift for all at the Strand Theatre: a free showing of the film "Charade", a romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in what's been called "the best Alfred Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made." Co-starring Walter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy; Charade is a suspenseful thriller that blends suspense, romance, and comedy.

The ending, as in every self-respecting suspense movie, is a dramatic climax. In the movie's denouement, the real villains are revealed. (it is not the butler)

In that spirit of Thanksgiving we are inviting you to make donations to River City Rescue Mission.

Celebrate Thanksgiving with us at the Strand.

It's a free movie, suitable for all ages, and did we mention the free popcorn?

Friday, November 28 at 7 PM

Spaced Invaders at the Strand

 

 

 

 

Spaced Invaders

Strand Theatre

717 Clay Street

Saturday, October 11

7 PM

 

 

Erin Schutt is sponsoring a Halloween movie: Spaced Invaders.

 

Five bungling Martians invade the sleepy town of Big Bean, Illinois, and are mistaken for trick or treaters. As their plans backfire, they give up their attempts at conquest in favor of escape, but there's one nasty killer robot on the loose...

 

A funny movie with compelling characters that's fun for the whole family!

 

And FREE POPCORN...

 

Advance tickets are available at Highway 61 Coffeehouse for $9.

At the door: $10

IRL Movie Club presents: My Omaha

 

IRL Movie Club presents

My Omaha

Sunday, October 12

at 5 PM 

Strand Theatre

717 Clay Street

Vicksburg, MS 39183 

 Share a movie and talk about it... 

The IRL (In Real Life) Movie Club is a nonprofit on a mission to strengthen democracy through the power of shared experience and dialogue. Inspired by Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone and the documentary Join or Die: Why You Should Join a Club (now on Netflix) IRL creates real-world spaces for connection starting with a great documentary.

Here's how it works: gather at your local theater (the Strand in this case), watch a well-curated and timely film, and if you're up for it, engage in conversation with your seatmates. Instead of traditional filmmaker Q&As, there are audience-driven dialogues, using simple prompts to spark meaningful discussion.

With $5 tickets, the club keeps events affordable and accessible. At the same time, supporting independent filmmakers and helping revitalize local movie houses as vital civic and cultural spaces.

Membership is free, thanks to generous donors. Sign up to be the first to hear about upcoming screenings. https://www.irlmovieclub.org/

MY OMAHA follows filmmaker Nick Beaulieu as he returns to his hometown amid the rising tensions of Donald Trump's presidency and the Black Lives Matter movement. Fresh out of college, he meets Leo Louis II, an independent activist, who introduces him to Omaha's activism roots, including the birthplace of Malcolm X in North Omaha. Simultaneously, Nick grapples with the strained relationship he has with his pro-Trump father, Randy, who is suddenly diagnosed with stage-4 cancer. With a newfound sense of urgency, Nick strives to reconcile with Randy through a series of difficult conversations.

As the city faces crisis after the death of a protestor, we see Leos efforts to unite Omaha.
And as national politics further divide Americans, we see Nick and Randy's ability to
bridge their differences. All together, MY OMAHA paints the portrait of a city grappling
with family conflict, political and racial discord, and the difficult search for common ground.

MY OMAHA encourages viewers to consider how these challenges register in their own life, providing an example for how embracing conversation with one another can heal divisions and create a better world. 

 

Tickets are $5 at the door or online.  

Darby O'Gill and the LIttle People

 

 

Darby O'Gill 

and the Little People

Strand Theatre

Saturday, August 30 at 7 PM

Sean Connery in "James Bond meets the Leprechauns"...Well, not exactly. In 1959 I went to the Strand to see this magical Disney film about about an aging Irishman who meets the King of the Leprechauns and claims a pot of gold. 

 

Sean Connery is indeed in this one (singing no less), and it led to his role as James Bond in Dr. No in 1962. But the real star is Albert Sharpe as Darby. But I have to say, Darby had a daughter, played by Janet Munro, who is the love interest of Sean's character. Her laughing Irish eyes (she's actually English) were as magical (to me) as anything King Brian of the Little People conjured. 

 

It's a Disney live action movie with fantastic believable special effects. Or real leprechauns. Ireland is recreated in California by way of exquisite matte paintings by Peter Ellenshaw. There's a nightmare-inducing banshee. These effects remind me that the Lord of the Rings movies and even Sinners may use computers, but they essentially are using the same tricks that were so convincingly employed on Darby O'Gill all those years ago.

 

The one thing the movie doesn't have is children. Thinking about it now I realize no one would make this family friendly movie today. It's really about an old man (who was the same age I am now) facing his mortality. It was obviously a labor of love for Walt Disney. And it shows.

 

Indulge me: come see Darby try to decide how to use his 3 wishes.

 

Tickets are $9 in advance at Highway 61 Coffeehouse, and they will be $10 at the door. 

 

Your wish has come true..the popcorn is free!!!

 

The Vagina Monologues

 

 

The Vagina Monologues

Strand Theatre

Friday, August 22 at 7:30 PM

Saturday, August 23 at 7:30 PM

Sunday, August 24 at 4 PM

 

3 brave women will bring to the stage of the Strand Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues

 

An Obie Award-winning whirlwind tour of a forbidden zone, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES introduces a wildly divergent gathering of female voices, including a six-year-old girl, a septuagenarian New Yorker, a vagina workshop participant, a woman who witnesses the birth of her granddaughter, a Bosnian survivor of rape, and a feminist happy to have found a man who "liked to look at it."

 

Tickets are $10 in advance at Highway 61 Coffeehouse and online at vagina.brownpapertickets.com and $15 at the door.