Crosstown Theater

Crosstown Arts presents Kirk Kafé: Kirk Whalum with Kim Burrell in The Theater at Crosstown Arts The Theater at Crosstown Arts Sunday, March 30, 2025 Doors open at 5:30 | Show begins at 6:00 Tickets: $59 (plus fees) PURCHASE TICKETS HERE Join Grammy-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum for Kafé Kirk, an ongoing jazz series in Crosstown […]

Crosstown Arts presents the Memphis Symphony Big Band ft. Joyce Cobb & Patrice Williamson in The Crosstown Theater The Crosstown Theater at Crosstown Arts Saturday, April 12, 2025 Doors open at 7:00 pm | Show begins at 7:30 pm Tickets: $35 in advance (plus fees) | $45 at the door | $10 student with ID […]

April 24th Doors:6:30 Screening: 7:00 $5:00 per entry https://youtu.be/Q0seMmCs94M?si=DU01VdqbUACGiFPw An intimate journey through the life of singer Diane Luckey aka Q Lazzarus, narrated through her own words, lyrics and music. The exceptionally talented but vastly underappreciated Q, who sang the cult hit song “Goodbye Horses”, reveals the reason behind her mysterious 25-year-long disappearance and paves […]

https://youtu.be/TNsNVIocysE May 1st-  I Know Catherine, The Log Lady (2025) The True story of the extraordinary death and big, big life of Catherine Coulson. Director David Lynch and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Robert Schenkan both created new works for her. Celebrated actors, producers, directors, writers, and cinematographers, who worked with her on stage, screen, and behind the […]

Secret Mall Apartment (2025) In 2003, eight Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. They snuck in furniture, tapped into the mall’s electricity, and even constructed a wall, smuggling in more than two tons of cinder block. Far more […]

Mildred Pierce (1945)- 80th Anniversary Screening When Mildred Pierce's wealthy husband leaves her for another woman, Mildred decides to raise her two daughters on her own. Despite Mildred's financial successes in the restaurant business, her oldest daughter, Veda, resents her mother for degrading their social status. In the midst of a police investigation after the death of […]

May 29th- They Live (1988) Nada (Roddy Piper), a wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. As he walks the streets of Los Angeles, Nada notices that both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, […]

Scrap Metal Orchestra In collaboration with The Memphis Concrète Experimental Music Festival, the Crosstown Film Series presents a special screening of The Terminator with an original live score performance by The Memphis Concrete Scrap Metal Orchestra.  Disguised as a human, a cyborg assassin known as a Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) travels from 2029 to 1984 to kill […]

My Own Private Idaho (1991) In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Mike Waters (River Phoenix) is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves) is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged […]

June 26th-   Él is a Mexican film by Luis Buñuel based upon the novel by Mercedes Pinto originally released in the US as “This Strange Passion.”  “What starts as a foot fetish aroused at a Holy Thursday service morphs into romantic obsession and pathological jealousy… Francisco Galván (Arturo de Córdova), a rich middle-aged bachelor, becomes fixated on a proper […]