August 1 from 6:30-8:30 – Maggots, Minuets, and Merry Conceits – A Colonial Evening’s Entertainment @ Adams County Arts Council
Experience colonial dance, history, and an educational program featuring performers in period clothing, energetic and stylish social dances, and songs popular in 18th Century English Colonial America.The program will beinterspersed with humorous and informative period readings. Tickets $20/Children under 12 are free. www.adamsarts.org
August 1-2 – 1776, the Musical @ Gettysburg Community Theatre Tickets: sold out! www.gettysburgcommunitytheatre.org
August 1-16 – South Pacific (musical) @ Totem Pole Playhouse
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s most iconic musical of complicated love on a balmy island in the midst of World War II. The musical is about a perky American nurse stationed on a south pacific island, who falls in love with a middle-aged expatriate French plantation owner. Tickets: $61-71. www.totempoleplayhouse.org
August 2 at 6 pm – Cormorant’s Fancy (Celtic folk music) @ United Lutheran Seminary Chapel
Cormorant’s Fancy, the region’s most popular Celtic ensemble will present a freeconcert at 6p.m. The band will perform heart-rending ballads and toe-tapping dances from Ireland, Scotland and beyond with two young special guest Irish dancers. www.musicgettysburg.org
August 3-31 M-F from 1-5 pm – Fraktur: the Printed Art of the Pennsylvania Germans @ Musselman Library Special Collections
Featuring 11 pieces from Elizabeth Paul, Class of 1964, Collection of PA German Fraktur. Fraktur, a distinctive printed art from developed by Pennsylvania-German communities, is known for sharp Gothic lettering and bright colors. Free. www.gettysburg.edu/musselman
August 5 at 7:30 pm – Summer Classic Movies – Guess Who’s coming to Dinner? (1967) @ Majestic Theater
Starring Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, and Katharine Houghton, a White couple’s attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her Black fiancé. Tickets: $10 www.gettysburgmajestic.org
August 7 from 5-7 pm – First Friday Art Exhibitions and Reception @ Adams County Arts Council
Enjoy meeting artists Bert Danielson, Christian Parker, Nancy Rehm, viewing their works and enjoying some refreshments with your fellow art lovers. Free. www.adamsarts.org
August 12 at 7:30 pm – Summer Classic Movies – Pretty Woman (1990) @ Majestic Theater
A corporate raider (Richard Gere) hires a sex worker (Julia Roberts) to act as his business escort in Beverly Hills.Her energetic spirit challenges his no-nonsense approach to life, and soon they are teaching each other – and falling in love. Tickets: $10. www.gettysburgmajestic.org
August 13-16 – Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival @ Granite Hill Camping Resort
The 91st Bluegrass Festival – wow! Artists include: Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, Lonesome River Band, Appalachian Roadshow, The Gibson Brothers, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Skip Ewing, The Malpass Brothers, The Seldom Scene, Blue Highway, and many others. Check the website for all the artists and for tickets. www.gettysburgbluegrass.com
August 15 at 7 pm – Songs and Stories for the Closing of a Civil War Hospital @ Christ Lutheran Church
The last soldier was moved from Christ Lutheran’s Church hospital to Camp Letterman on August 15, 1863 and CELC began the long journey back to “normalcy”. This new program commemorates the brave souls who suffered here and those that cared for them through songs, stories, and poetry. Admission is free. www.songsandstoriesgettysburg.org
August 16 at 7:30 pm – Dancing Dream: The Tribute to Abba @ Majestic Theater
This tribute bandfrom New York City personifiesthe greatest pop super-group from Sweden, and electrifies audiences of all ages with their many hits “Mamma Mia”, “Dancing Queen”, “Take a Chance”, “Fernando”, “Waterloo”, to name a few. Tickets: $35/$45/$55 www.gettysburgmajestic.org
August 18 at 7:30 pm – The Boy Band Project @ Totem Pole Playhouse
Broadway’s hottest 90’s sensation, these gentlemen will be singing all the Boy Band hits. Tickets: $38-47. www.totempoleplayhouse.org
August 19 at 7:30 pm – Summer Classic Movies – Tombstone (1993) @ Majestic Theater Legendary Marshall Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. When a gang of renegades and rustlers begins terrorizing the town, Earp is forced to put on his Marshall badge again and get help from his notorious pal, doc Holliday. Tickets: $10. www.gettysburgmajestic.org
August 20-30 – Dolly Tribute by Karen Hester @ Totem Pole Playhouse
Direct from Vegas, the #1 Dolly tribute artist’s one-woman celebration of the iconic Dolly Parton, with hits like Jolene, 9 to 5, and I Will Always Love You. Tickets: $61-71 www.totempoleplayhouse.org
August 21 at 10:30 am – Patriotic Lawn Concert – Flute Flock of Gettysburg @ Children of Gettysburg 1863 – Rupp House
The Flute Flock will perform patriotic music outdoors. Free. www.gettysburgfoundation.org
