Play Performances To Benefit Local Charities

Theatre for a Cause (TFAC), the brainchild of local actor Adam Hughes, is presenting The Winning Streak by playwright Lee Blessing for three nights in May. Blessing’s plays are regularly produced on Broadway and in regional and community theatres. He is best know for his drama A Walk in the Woods for which he was nominated for a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Each night of performance an organization which has a cause to fund will sponsor the evening and be receiving the night’s door receipts. This is the second year that TFAC has offered local organizations a chance to fund raise using the arts as the fund raising vehicle. The play is to be presented at The Spire located on Third Street in Jamestown, where last years TFAC’s production of Tuesdays with Morrie was also presented. The Winning Streak is a bittersweet comedy about the newly formed relationship between a father and son who first meet when the son is thirty. The title refers to a baseball team’s efforts to keep winning and the emphasis that the father puts on this rare event. Adam Hughes will be playing the son and his father is played by local, veteran actor Skip Anderson. The two actors have appeared together in many productions, most recently A Few Good Men at the Lucille Ball Little Theatre of Jamestown. This is their second opportunity to play relatives. At LBLTJ Hughes played the son-in-law of Charlie Anderson, the patriarch in Shenandoah.

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Music Salon at UUCJ

On Sunday, April 14th at 7:00 PM, Mna’ Tri’ will perform at the Music Salon Series at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Jamestown, 1255 Prendergast Avenue Jamestown. Mna’ Tri’ consists of Ann Mead – Flute, Victoria Hanson – Cello and Joan Eighmey – Piano. Mna' Tri', a flute, cello, and piano trio comprised of Ann Mead, flutist, Vicki Hanson, cellist, and Joan Eighmey, pianist, has been performing for the past five years. Ann Mead has a Masters degree in Music Education from SUNY Fredonia, Vicki Hanson has a Bachelors degree in cello from Duquesne University, and Joan Eighmey has a Masters degree in piano performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music.

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Brown Bag Lecture Series -- Fenton History Center

Beginning April 10 and ending on October 9 the Fenton History Center will offer a free lecture series on a number of interesting topics concerning Jamestown's history. Meeting on the 2nd Wednesday of the month, at the Fenton Mansion please feast on such topics as:

April 10 -- Chautauqua County's Unsolved Murder by Norman Carlson

May 8 -- Aaron Hall, Jamestown's Busiest Early Architect by Kathy Benware

Please see the Fenton website for additional topics: http://www.fentonhistorycenter.org/