PARAMOUNT THEATRE
PARAMOUNT THEATRE
123 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids, IA 52401
Upcoming Events at PARAMOUNT THEATRE
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The Nutcracker
Experience the magic of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker! In partnership with Ballet Quad Cities, Orchestra Iowa brings this beloved story to life in this enchanting holiday tradition. Follow Clara’s journey through a dazzling world of glimmering snowflakes, waltzing flowers, and the Sugar Plum Fairy in a performance filled with beautiful music and timeless splendors. 2025-07-15 16:00:00 -0500PARAMOUNT THEATRECedar Rapids -
The Nutcracker
Experience the magic of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker! In partnership with Ballet Quad Cities, Orchestra Iowa brings this beloved story to life in this enchanting holiday tradition. Follow Clara’s journey through a dazzling world of glimmering snowflakes, waltzing flowers, and the Sugar Plum Fairy in a performance filled with beautiful music and timeless splendors. 2025-07-15 21:30:00 -0500PARAMOUNT THEATRECedar Rapids -
Rocky Mountain High Experience - John Denver Christmas
Rocky Mountain High Experience®, A John Denver Christmas starring Rick Schuler, America’s Top John Denver Tribute, is an intimate experience that will take you back to the ’70s when John Denver’s music permeated the radio airways. Rick's enchanting holiday show features all your favorite Denver hits including “Rocky Mountain High”, “Sunshine On My Shoulders”, “Take Me Home Country Roads”, “Annie’s Song”, and “Thank God I’m A Country Boy”, just to name a few. Schuler weaves in John’s heartwarming inspirational carols and holiday classics from his memorable TV specials and Christmas albums including “Aspenglow”, “Silent Night”, “Joy to the World”, “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire”, and many more festive standards. Rocky Mountain High Experience®, A John Denver Christmas captivates audiences young and old alike. Don’t miss the incomparable event of the season… you will swear you are back in the ’70s with John Denver on stage! 2025-06-05 16:30:00 -0500
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Jim Brickman Live! The Gift of Christmas
Jim Brickman: The Gift of Christmas celebrates the gift of family, the gift of friends, the gift of peace, and the gift of love, wrapped up in sweet sounds of the season only he and his piano can provide. Join Jim Brickman and friends this Christmas season for an unforgettable concert experience filled with music, laughter & heartwarming stories. Audiences can expect a captivating blend of timeless holiday classics, along with Brickman's biggest hits like "The Gift," "Love of my Life," “Destiny,” “Valentine" and joyfully unexpected surprises. Escape with Jim Brickman to a magical atmosphere that brings friends and family together to celebrate the true spirit of Christmas. 2025-06-02 21:00:00 -0500
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Pops II - Holiday Spectacular
Celebrate the season with Orchestra Iowa’s Holiday Spectacular—a grand tradition filled with joyful music and festive cheer! Carefully and creatively crafted by Maestro Hankewich, this heartwarming concert features the full symphony, chorus, and youth chorus, bringing beloved holiday classics to life. With plenty of surprises and jolly good fun, it’s the perfect way to share the magic of the season with family and friends. 2025 features the Iowa Women’s Jazz Orchestra, the Orchestra Iowa Symphonic Chorus and the Discovery Chorus. 2025-07-15 21:30:00 -0500PARAMOUNT THEATRECedar Rapids -
Pops II - Holiday Spectacular
Celebrate the season with Orchestra Iowa’s Holiday Spectacular—a grand tradition filled with joyful music and festive cheer! Carefully and creatively crafted by Maestro Hankewich, this heartwarming concert features the full symphony, chorus, and youth chorus, bringing beloved holiday classics to life. With plenty of surprises and jolly good fun, it’s the perfect way to share the magic of the season with family and friends. 2025 features the Iowa Women’s Jazz Orchestra, the Orchestra Iowa Symphonic Chorus and the Discovery Chorus. 2025-07-15 16:00:00 -0500PARAMOUNT THEATRECedar Rapids -
Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss’s effervescent operetta enters a realm of luck, luxury, and laughter as Cedar Rapids Opera’s mainstage January 2026 production. Die Fledermaus plunges the audience into a world of chance and intrigue, where fortunes—and secrets—are gambled away. Prince Orlofsky’s soirée becomes a grand night filled with masked players, shimmering gowns, and a live orchestra bringing the atmosphere to life. 2025-07-15 21:45:00 -0500PARAMOUNT THEATRECedar Rapids -
Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss’s effervescent operetta enters a realm of luck, luxury, and laughter as Cedar Rapids Opera’s mainstage January 2026 production. Die Fledermaus plunges the audience into a world of chance and intrigue, where fortunes—and secrets—are gambled away. Prince Orlofsky’s soirée becomes a grand night filled with masked players, shimmering gowns, and a live orchestra bringing the atmosphere to life. 2025-07-15 16:30:00 -0500PARAMOUNT THEATRECedar Rapids -
Fortune Feimster: Takin' Care of Biscuits Comedy Tour
Affable, charismatic and one of a kind, Fortune Feimster is a standup comedian, writer and actor who uses her confessional comedy to bring people together. Through laughter and storytelling, Fortune shows audiences of all ages, backgrounds, and sexual orientations that common ground is only a joke or two away. Viewers really got to know Fortune through her first Netflix special, “Sweet & Salty,” which was nominated for a Critics Choice Award. With her last special “Good Fortune” and her Live Laugh Love Tour she expands further into her storytelling brand of comedy, hilariously delving into love, relationships, sexuality and shared experiences with Southern charm and the perspective of someone who grew up in the 1980s. She’s your funniest cousin who isn't afraid to entertain the masses with tales of her good fortune, insecurities, and faux pas, including meeting her spouse in a parking lot, falling in love and her extravagant proposal that didn’t quite go as planned. Now streaming on Netflix, Good Fortune has earned praise from both fans and critics with the LA Times naming it to their Best of List for 2022 and also scored a nomination at the Critics Choice Awards. Fortune just filmed her third special for Netflix in Seattle, WA. In addition to bringing her comedy to fans across the world with her most recent Live Laugh Love Tour, Feimster returned to Netflix in 2023 with the release of action-comedy series FUBAR alongside actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as he returns to screens for his first TV series. Fortune is currently on set filming the second season of FUBAR, as the series was number 1 on Netflix around the world for its first 10 days of release and topped 100 million views in less than a week. Feimster stars as Roo Russell in the show about a father and daughter who learn that they’ve each secretly been working as CIA Operatives for years, realizing their entire relationship has been a lie and they truly don’t know one another at all. Forced to team up as partners, the series tackles universal family dynamics set against a global backdrop of spies, action and humor. The North Carolina native began her ascent to popularity as a writer and panelist on E’s hit show “Chelsea Lately.” She then starred as a series regular on “The Mindy Project” for Hulu and on “Champions” and “Kenan” for NBC. She has logged a multitude of guest appearances on television shows, including “Claws,” “Nora from Queens,” “2 Broke Girls,” “The L Word: Generation Q,” “Workaholics,” “Glee,” and “Tales of the City.” Audiences became even more familiar with Fortune through her recurring role as the popular character Dougie on CBS’s “Life In Pieces.” Her movie roles include appearances in “Family Switch,” “Office Christmas Party,” “Yes Day,” “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,” and “Father of the Year.” And she's a voice actor, recently voicing the role of Evelyn on “The Simpsons” and Counselor Jerry in Pixar’s “Soul” along with recurring characters Brenda on “Bless the Harts” for Fox, Ava on “Summer Camp Island” for the Cartoon Network, and Olive in “Velma” on HBO Max. She’s appeared as a guest on late-night including “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “Conan” and more. Her previous half-hour specials on Comedy Central and on Netflix's season one of “The Standups” led Decider to rave, “her presence is positively inspirational.” Shecan also currently be heard every morning on Sirius XM with Tom Papa on Netflix’s “What A Joke with Papa and Fortune” radio show. She also hosts the popular podcast Handsome, with fellow comedians and friends, Tig Notaro and Mae Martin. The podcast was launched in August 2023 and has already amassed 10 million downloads. Fortune has been building an innovative, inclusive, and unique career for more than 20 years. Be it on the road, her radio show, film, or television, her contagious and joyous comedy is touching lives and bringing us together daily.And with opportunities piling up as fast as punchlines, it's clear the determined and unflappable comedian is just getting started. 2025-10-13 21:30:00 -0500
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Pops III - Bugs Bunny at the Symphony
“What’s Up, Doc?” Bugs Bunny is coming to your Orchestra Iowa. Enjoy 16 beloved, classic Looney Tunes on the big screen, including What’s Opera, Doc?, Baton Bunny, and The Rabbit of Seville, as Orchestra Iowa plays their iconic original musical scores LIVE! Join Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, and of course, Bugs Bunny as they take over the Paramount Theatre for Bugs Bunny at the Symphony. Conducted by George Daugherty Created by George Daugherty & David Ka Lik Wong LOONEY TUNES and all related characters and elements © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s25) 2025-07-15 21:30:00 -0500PARAMOUNT THEATRECedar Rapids -
The Ten Tenors
Get ready, North America! The vocal wonder from Down Under, THE TEN TENORS, are bringing their electrifying 30th Anniversary World Tour to your shores in 2026! After rave reviews, standing ovations, and sold-out tours across Europe and Australia, these ten talented and charismatic Aussies are thrilled to return to their favorite territory in the world. Celebrated globally for their unique blend of soaring harmonies, dynamic stage presence, and genre-defying performances, THE TEN TENORS deliver an unforgettable musical experience. This special anniversary show features a powerful mix of Classical Crossover, Neapolitan Classics, and Classic Rock anthems—all delivered with their trademark Aussie charm and vocal brilliance. Fans will be treated to the group’s signature medleys, including three brand-new arrangements created exclusively for their North American audiences. Whether you’re a longtime fan or a newcomer, this tour promises an emotional, energetic, and deeply entertaining evening that showcases why THE TEN TENORS remain one of the most beloved vocal groups in the world. If you see one tenor act this year—do yourself a favor and make it THE TEN TENORS. Their voices will lift your spirits, stir your soul, and leave you cheering for more. Don't miss this chance to celebrate three decades of vocal magic with the group that redefined the tenor genre for the modern age. 2025-08-25 22:00:00 -0500
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Masterworks IV
Get down to “unfinished” business. Only one of the three pieces in Masterworks IV was completed by the composer. Mendelssohn’s St. Paul Overture starts the concert out with majestic flair before Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony takes over with its haunting yet hopeful beauty. Finally, Mozart’s C Minor Mass brings dramatic operatic intensity to the performance’s conclusion. 2025-07-10 21:15:00 -0500PARAMOUNT THEATRECedar Rapids