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Weekend highligh†s include Video Games Live at Tilles Center, a concert with Maureen McGovern and Jimmy Webb and short story reading at Adelphi
Family Fun
Video Games Live
The video game experience comes to the stage when Video Games Live, the
immersive concert event featuring music from the most popular video games
of all time, visits Long Island this weekend. The show features a live orchestra and chorus along with exclusive video footage and music arrangements, synchronized lighting, solo performers, electronic percussionists, live action, and unique interactive segments. The fun begins with a pre-show festival, featuring a meet-and-greet with top composers as well as a costume event, gaming competitions, and more.
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In Concert
Nostalgic Night
Maureen McGovern and Jimmy Webb team up for a new show that salutes the music of the ‘60s and ‘70s. McGovern opens the show with her “Long and Winding Road” tribute. Then the pair performs Webb’s classic songs together in Act II.
Saturday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m. $40 and $35. Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark
on Main Street, 232 Main St., Port Washington. (516) 767-6444 or
www.landmarkonmainstreet.org.
On Stage
Selected Shorts
Spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed on stage in this program presented by Symphony Space. Frequent “This American Life” contributor David Rakoff (Don’t Get Too Comfortable, Half Empty), Golden Globe winner Jill Eikenberry (L.A. Law) and host Isaiah Sheffer perform comic and moving tales including Algonquin Round Table star Dorothy Parker’s classic story “But the One on the Right” and the hilarious adventure “The Valetudinarian” by Joshua Ferris (selected for The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” best writers of 2010).
Sunday, Jan. 30, 3 p.m. $25. Adelphi University Performing Arts Center, 1 South Ave., Garden City. (516) 877-4000.
