Crosstown Theater

Join Crosstown Arts and filmmaker and Memphian Craig Brewer in the Crosstown Theater on Friday March 25th for a special, mystery screening of one of Craig’s most favorite films! What is the film? You will have to come and find out as Craig will be on hand to introduce the film himself! GUARANTEED TO BE A GOOD TIME!! With music by LUCKY 7 BRASS BAND. $5 DOLLAR TICKETS, CHEAP! 

Vittorio De Sica’s follow-up to his international triumph Bicycle Thieves is an enchanting neorealist fairy tale in which he combined his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it’s up to the cherubic orphan Totò (Francesco Golisano)—with some divine help—to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini (adapting his own novel) craft a big-hearted ode to the nobility of everyday people. Restored from the original camera negative by Cineteca di Bologna and Compass Film, in collaboration with Mediaset, Infinity, Arthur Cohn and Variety Communications at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.

In the '70s, mad genius producer Roger Corman took his crew to the Philippines to create the most enduring women-in-prison films in cinematic history. Inside the hellish women's prison called THE BIG BIRD CAGE, inmates like Terry (Anitra Ford, THE PRICE IS RIGHT) struggle to survive. They get their chance to escape when scheming revolutionary Blossom (Pam Grier, COFFY; FOXY BROWN) engineers a prison break… from the outside in! “Half of you won't get ten steps before you get a boobful of lead!” Also starring Carol Speed (ABBY THE BLACK EXORCIST) and directed by the legendary Jack Hill (SPIDER BABY; THE SWINGING CHEERLEADERS).

Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis are thrilled to be hosting the first combined MicroCinema and Shoot & Splice experience: An Evening with Hope Tucker! Join us as we dive into the experimental documentary shorts and filmmaking practice of filmmaker and Memphian Hope Tucker – whose most recent short, What Travelers Are Saying About Jornada Del Muerto, screened at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and here in Memphis as part of our Sundance Satellite Screenings!

Eighth Blackbird, hailed as “one of the smartest, most dynamic ensembles on the planet” (Chicago Tribune), began in 1996 as a group of six entrepreneurial Oberlin Conservatory students and continues today under the leadership of founding members Lisa Kaplan (executive director) and Matthew Duvall (artistic director).

The Memphis Symphony Orchestra presents Vaughan-Williams Fantasia, with works by Fela Sowande, Ralph Vaughan-Williams, and Camille Saint-Saëns. Featuring pianist Maxim Lando. 

In memory of the great actor Sidney Poitier, Crosstown Arts is excited to screen TO SIR, WITH LOVE. Poitier plays Mark Thackeray, an immigrant from British Guiana who wants to be an engineer but takes a job as a teacher in an inner city school in London. Without experience, Thackeray (Poitier) powers through changing the lives of his young and troubled charges, as well himself.

Crosstown Arts presents an evening of show-stopping vocal music across multiple genres, featuring works by HT Burleigh and María Grever, musical theater pieces by Kurt Weill, and famous arias by Puccini and Wagner. Featuring local artists Paulina Villareal (U of M vocal professor), Gavin Wigginson (PRIZM Executive Director), and guest artist dramatic soprano Takesha Meshé Kizart-Thomas. They will be joined by pianists Jonathan Tsay and Artina McCain.

The Mahogany Chamber Performances is a series of three chamber music concerts curated by Dr. Artina McCain, spotlighting Black and other underrepresented composers and performers.