Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center
Broadway-style theater, opera, jazz, comedy, and film on one High Street stage, running since 2017. Performing-arts classes for preschoolers through adults fill the gaps between shows.
Field notes: Seven rooms with live music this Sunday, one set is free
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Social Sessions Open Jam Hosted by DJ HA
September edition of the Uptown open jam. Players sign up, DJ HA keeps it moving, and the room turns over every few numbers.
West Chester Comedy Festival: Thursday Showcase at Uptown
The festival's big-room Thursday show, five comics including Samantha Ruddy. Starts half an hour after the Turks Head set, so you can only pick one.
Toy Story
Woody and Buzz on the Uptown screen for Monday movie night. Cheap tickets, short runtime, easy call for a school-night outing with kids.
Oktoberfest Pop-Up Beer Garden
The Uptown's pop-up beer garden with JD Malone playing. Lawn games, drinks, and a stretch of High Street that turns into a patio for the night.
The Laugh Lounge Stand-Up Comedy
A rotating bill of stand-up comics in Uptown's smaller room. Doors ahead of the 7:30 start, and the theater sells its own tickets, so skip the resale sites.
In To America
One night of theater in Uptown's Americana Series, paid for by an America250 grant through the Chester County Community Foundation. Curtain at 7:30 on the High Street mainstage.
The Brit Pack with Artful Impact
British rock tribute night with Artful Impact, working through the catalogs that crossed the Atlantic in the sixties and seventies. Saturday at 7:30 on the mainstage.
Josh Blue: The Road Dog Tour
Comedian Josh Blue brings his Road Dog Tour to the Uptown mainstage for one Friday show at 7:30. Tickets only through the theater's own site.
Pop-Up Beer Garden
Free outdoor beer garden on the Uptown lot with lawn games, drinks and live music from five. Stay on for Kashmir inside at 7:30, or just come for the yard.
Kashmir: The Spirit of Led Zeppelin Live
A Led Zeppelin tribute playing the catalog at full volume. The free beer garden opens on the lot at five, then the band takes the mainstage at 7:30.
Halloweentown
The Halloween family film on the big screen for a Monday night, part of Uptown's fall movie run. Seven o'clock start on the High Street mainstage.
Dueling Pianos with The Philly Keys
The Philly Keys take requests two pianos at a time and let the room pick what gets played. Runs most months at Uptown, this one on a Wednesday at 7:30.
Glenn Miller Orchestra
The touring Glenn Miller Orchestra plays big band swing on the mainstage, one Thursday night at 7:30. The box office opens two hours before the show.
Abacab
A tribute band working the Genesis catalog plus the Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel solo years. Friday night, 7:30, on the Uptown mainstage.
Meet Loaf: A Tribute to Meat Loaf
A Meat Loaf tribute doing Bat Out of Hell and the rest with the theatrics intact. Saturday at 7:30 on the High Street mainstage.
The Laugh Lounge Stand-Up Comedy
Stand-up night returns to Uptown two days before Halloween, 7:30 start. A rotating lineup of touring and regional comics, tickets through the theater only.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The cult classic screens at nine on Halloween night. Uptown runs it as a movie event rather than a plain showing, so costumes are the point.
Bell Bottom Blues with Artful Impact
An Eric Clapton tribute with Artful Impact, covering the Derek and the Dominos years through the solo records. Saturday night at 7:30.
Total Mass Retain: YES Tribute Band
A YES tribute band playing the long-form prog rock the way it was recorded. Friday at 7:30 on the Uptown mainstage.
Uncle Buck
The John Candy comedy on the big screen for a Monday night in the fall movie run. Seven o'clock start, tickets through the Uptown box office.
Dueling Pianos with The Philly Keys
Two pianos, requests from the floor, and whichever player wins the room. The Philly Keys return on a Wednesday at 7:30.
The Laugh Lounge Stand-Up Comedy
The November edition of Uptown's stand-up night, 7:30 on a Thursday. Comics rotate each month and the room stays small enough that the front row is a risk.
Elf
The Will Ferrell Christmas film screens the night after Thanksgiving at seven, run as a holiday movie event rather than a plain showing.
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