Comedian Finesse Mitchell
Friday, May 1
Catch a few late night laughs, as comedian, actor and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member Finesse Mitchell rolls into Hawkeye territory Friday night. Mitchell, who now performs regularly at some of America’s hottest comedy clubs – including The Miami Improv, The Atlanta Punchline, ACME Comedy Club in Minneapolis, and at The Hollywood Improv, The Comedy Store, and The Laugh Factory all in LA – is also a hot commodity on college campuses across the country. He mixes wit, no-holds-bar humor and southern charm to keep audiences laughing. His show at the IMU is open to the public.
Finesse Mitchell
11 p.m. Friday (5/1) Iowa Memorial Union Main Lounge, Iowa City, $3 with UI student ID and $7 for general public in advance or $5 with UI student ID and $10 for general public at the door, http://imu.uiowa.edu/cab
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Hair
Friday, May 1
If you don’t plan on making it to Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York City anytime soon to catch the revival of the hit, American tribal love-rock musical Hair, never fear! Theatre Cedar Rapids is bringing this blast from the past (literally) show to the TCR Lindale stage, right here in the Corridor, starting this weekend. You’ll be transported to the age of Nixon, Vietnam, and Aquarius, of course, when Hair makes its TCR debut. It’s chock full of hippie-inspired messages, addressing the social, political, racial and sexual revolutions of the 1960s. So get out and join the “tribe.”
Hair
7:30 p.m. Friday (5/1) continuing at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays (5/2 – 5/16), TCR Lindale, 4444 First Ave., Cedar Rapids, $10 to $25, www.theatrecr.org
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Free Comic Book Day
Saturday, May 2
Spiderman, Batman, Wolverine, oh my! Stop by Daydreams Comics in Iowa City for Free Comic Book Day. That’s right. Daydream Comics is giving away free comics as part of a nationwide event. You’ll also have a chance to meet Jason Aaron, the writer of Marvel Comics new Wolverine ongoing comic, and Jesse Delperdang, an inker on various Marvel and DC projects. The two will be appearing between 12 and 7 p.m. Free Comic Book Day coincides with the release of the new X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie (which opens Saturday.)
Free Comic Book Day
10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday (5/2) Daydreams Comics, 21 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, (319) 354-6632
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THREE OTHER THINGS
Dan Knight in Concert
7:30 p.m. Saturday (5/2)
A benefit concert for the Janet G. Altman Music Fund for Riverside Theatre, Riverside Theatre, 213 N. Gilbert St., Iowa City, $30, (319) 338-7672, www.riversidetheatre.org
Taste of Jazz Under The Stars
5:30 p.m. Friday (5/1)
Class Act, Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, $45, www.kcck.org
Maifest
Friday, Saturday and Sunday (5/1 – 3)
Amana Colonies, www.festivalsinamana.com