Odessa Arts

Kevin James
2022-09-30 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Kevin James
AEG Presents

Sep 30 / Friday7:00 PM
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After selling out the Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center in less than five days in 2020, only to have the show not be able to occur due to the 2020 Pandemic, Kevin James will finally be able to perform in West Texas on Friday, September 30, 2022!
Tickets will go on sale Friday, April 8, 2022, at 10 AM CT at WagnerNoel.com, and will be available at the venue Box Office from 1 – 5 PM, or by calling ETIX at 1-800-514-3849.
James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being discovered at the 1996 Montreal Comedy Festival, he signed a network development deal to create his own sitcom.
The King of Queens, which premiered in 1998, ran for nine seasons on CBS with James starring and executive producing, and it garnered him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show concluded its run in 2007 but continues to air daily in syndication across the country and around the world. James also starred in, and executive produced The Crew, a sitcom set in the world of NASCAR and is currently developing a single camera comedy (both for Netflix).
James brought his stand-up act to TV with Sweat the Small Stuff, a one-hour special for Comedy Central. Kevin James and Ray Romano executive produced and starred in the HBO Sports Special Making the Cut: The Road to Pebble Beach; a documentary about the Pebble Beach Pro Am Golf Tournament that was nominated for a Sports Emmy. His second comedy special Never Don’t Give Up premiered on Netflix to critical acclaim.
James was the producer, co-writer, and star of the hit comedies Paul Blart: Mall Cop 1 & 2, Zookeeper, and Here Comes The Boom. James made his feature film debut in Columbia Pictures’ Hitch starring opposite Will Smith, and starred alongside Adam Sandler in Pixels, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and Hubie Halloween. He starred in the feature True Memoirs of an International Assassin for Netflix, the independent action-thriller Becky, and starred in and produced Home Team for Netflix.

Live Music with Flair: The Suitcase Sessions
2022-09-30 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Live Music with Flair: Moments Notice
2022-09-29 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Film screening • Maria Martinez-Pueblo Indian Pottery and Enduring Dreams
2022-09-29 18:00 | Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States
Film screening • 6:00 pm • Maria Martinez-Pueblo Indian Pottery and Enduring Dreams: in collaboration with UTPB Art Dept.

Story Cubes Writing: Spooky Stories
2022-09-29 17:00 - 18:30 | Ector County Library
Come and roll the story cubes and write your own scary story to prepare for the spookiest holiday of the year! This program is designed for ages 8-12.

Annual Meeting | Volunteer of the Year
2022-09-26 18:00 - 20:00 | TX
More info coming soon..

Superhero Coding Challenge
2022-09-26 17:00 - 18:30 | Ector County Library
Use basic computer coding concepts to navigate the superhero to the end of the maze. No computer required!

West Texas Fest
2022-09-24 19:00 | TX
WEST TEXAS FEST
September 24th
SAVE THE DATE
VIP/Sponsor Hour • 6pm
General Admission • 7pm
Cornhole Tournament • 7:45pm
COME AND ENJOY THE SPIRITS OF TEXAS!
★Texas beer & spirit tastings ★ Corn hole tournament ★ Texas country music ★ Food trucks

WE CAN’T WAIT! MOVING TO SEPTEMBER IN DOWNTOWN ODESSA

Live Music with Flair: TaylorMade
2022-09-24 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Tall City Blues Fest 2022
2022-09-24 15:00 - 23:00 | The Destination, 1705 W. Industrial Ave., Midland, TX, 79701

D&D Club
2022-09-24 13:00 - 17:00 | Ector County Library
Registration is required to be certain that we have all supplies and enough Dungeon Masters. Call 432-332-0633 ext. 2124 to register.

Tall City Blues Fest VIP Party
2022-09-24 12:00 - 15:00 | The Destination, 1705 W. Industrial Ave., Midland, TX, 79701

SIDE Bar Live on Friday's: Carrey Ryan Thompson
2022-09-23 19:00 - 22:00 | Side Bar & Grill, 415 N Grant, Odessa, TX

Live Music with Flair: Groove City
2022-09-23 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Live Music with Flair: Colton Fox
2022-09-22 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Movies at the Museum• The Monuments Men
2022-09-21 18:00 | Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States
Movies at the Museum • 6:00 pm • The Monuments Men

NB Ridaz
2022-09-17 20:00 | The Ector Theatre, 500 N. Texas, Odessa, TX, 79761, United States
NB RIDAZ

Saturday, 17 September, 2022

08:00 pm – 11:59 pm
The Ector Theatre
www.theector.com

Live Music with Flair: Carrey Ryan Thompsono & The Ragtown Chiefs
2022-09-17 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Heidi Pitre - Vintage Library Card workshop
2022-09-17 14:00 - 17:00 | Ector County Library
Celebrated artist Heidi Pitre returns to Odessa with her exhibit of library card art. “A Permanent Record,” repurposes vintage library cards into unique artworks that celebrate the written word. Pitre’s work will be exhibited at the Ector County Library from September 6 – November 19, 2023. A special reception will be held for Pitre as well as new library Director Howard Marks on September 16th at 5:30pm on the first floor of the Ector County Library. Pitre will also hold a library card art workshop on Saturday, September 17th at 2pm at the Ector County Library. The reception and the workshop are free and open to the public.

Felipe Esparza
2022-09-16 19:30 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Felipe Esparza
The Unmasked Tour – Presented by Tobin Entertainment

Sep 16 / Friday7:30 PM
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Felipe Esparza is a comedian and actor, known for his stand-up specials, “They’re Not Gonna Laugh at You”, “Translate This”, and his latest dual-release on Netflix, “Bad Decisions/Malas Decisiones” (2 different performances in two languages), his recurring appearances on Netflix’s “Gentefied”, NBC’s “Superstore” and Adultswim’s “The Eric Andre Show”, as well as winning “Last Comic Standing” (2010), and his popular podcast called “What’s Up Fool?”. Felipe is also developing a sitcom along with actor Omar Chaparro, producer Eric Tannenbaum and 3Pas (Eugenio Derbez’ production company). Felipe continues to sell out live stand-up shows in comedy clubs and theaters around the country.

SIDE Bar Live on Friday's: Churchwell
2022-09-16 19:00 - 22:00 | Side Bar & Grill, 415 N Grant, Odessa, TX

Las Nuevas Tamaleras
2022-09-16 19:00 | TX
Las Nuevas Tamaleras​

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The Greatest Stage in West Texas

PLAYING EXCLUSIVELY IN WEST TEXAS
AT THE PERMIAN PLAYHOUSE!
For more than a quarter of a century, San Antonio audiences have enjoyed seeing themselves reflected on stage by the characters of Silvia, Josie and Patsy in their uproariously comical attempt at their first tamalada while the spirits of Doña Mercedes and Doña Juanita add to excitement and drama as they join the new tamaleras in an amusing power struggle about whose recipe makes the perfect tamal. Centered around friendship, family and comradery, the play makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you proud!

Live Music with Flair: After 5 Jazz Quintet
2022-09-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Ector County Library Reception
2022-09-16 17:30 | Ector County Library

Live Music with Flair: Eric & Emily Baker
2022-09-15 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Portraits from the Ellen Noël Art Museum’s Permanent Collection Opening Reception
2022-09-15 18:00 | Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States
Spitting Image: Portraits from the Ellen Noël Art Museum’s Permanent Collection • Opening Reception • 6:00 pm

George Thorogood & The Destroyers
2022-09-14 19:30 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Good To Be Bad Tour: 45 Years of Rock

Sep 14 / Wednesday7:30 PM
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Since 1976, they’ve sold over 15 million albums, built a catalog of classic hits, and played more than 8,000 ferocious live shows. They broke records with their 50 Dates/50 States Tour, delivered landmark performances at Live Aid and on SNL, and became mainstays of radio, MTV and stages worldwide for more than two generations. Through it all, they’ve remained one of the most consistent – and consistently passionate – progenitors of blues-based rock in pop culture history.
For the past 45 years, it’s been very good to be George Thorogood & The Destroyers. And in 2022, their Good To Be Bad Tour: 45 Years Of Rock will prove why like never before.
“If you’re content, you may as well be dead.” George says. “I think everyone has thoughts about retiring, but the phone keeps ringing. You want me and The Destroyers to come to your town, set up our gear, wear some cool threads and play ‘Who Do You Love?’ End of conversation. Let’s rock!”
For Thorogood and his longtime band – Jeff Simon (drums, percussion), Bill Blough (bass guitar), Jim Suhler (rhythm guitar) and Buddy Leach (saxophone) – the power to rock audiences has been both battle cry and creed since the beginning. “It wasn’t about the amount of people we drew, but rather the impression we made,” George explains. “I asked myself, ‘Are we reaching them? Do they want more?’ And we knew from the very first set that we had something special.”
It’s on stage that George & The Destroyers flip the switch nightly, delivering what The Toledo Blade calls “a gut-bustin’, guitar-wailin’, face-meltin’, fiery-tempoed, take-no-prisoners, good old-fashioned lunch-bucket rock & roll show” that includes their signature hits “Get A Haircut”, “I Drink Alone”, “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”, “Move It On Over”, “Who Do You Love” and the definitive badass anthem “Bad To The Bone”, along with several surprises. “It’s been a constant evolution to make the show all killer, no filler,” explains 43-year Destroyer bassist Bill Blough. “Something still inherently clicks the second we step on stage. We feel the audience’s energy and the show just explodes.”

Through the Years with the Kenny Rogers Band ft. Don Gatlin, A Salute to Kenny Rogers
2022-09-13 19:30 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Through the Years with the Kenny Rogers Band ft. Don Gatlin, A Salute to Kenny Rogers
Presented by Live on Stage Permian Basin

Sep 13 / Tuesday7:30 PM
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Don Gatlin, a longtime friend of Kenny Rogers, has joined Kenny’s original band to present a timeless song catalog while sharing the untold stories from his illustrious career. Kenny was a GRAMMY Award-winning superstar that entertained fans for six decades. Selling over 120 million albums worldwide, he is one of the best-selling male artists of all-time. NOT a tribute band…Kenny’s actual Touring Band

Tesla
2022-09-12 20:00 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
TESLA
Presented by Live Nation

Sep 12 / Monday8:00 PM
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That they are still roaring and soaring should be no surprise. That’s just how they are built. TESLA may have been born in the mid 80s eruption of leather, spandex, and big hair, but this band has never been about those things. Hardly. Their bluesy, soulful sound is strongly embedded in the roots of organic, authentic, 1970s rock and roll.
TESLA’s latest tour Presented by Live Nation will include a stop at Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center on September 12, 2022, in support of their latest single “Cold Blue Steel.” Known for crowd favorites like, “Modern Day Cowboy,” “Little Suzi,” “Love Song” a hit that made pop Top Ten and made the band stars, pushing their album The Great Radio Controversy into the Top 20 and double-platinum sales figures.
2020 marked the 30th anniversary of one of TESLA’s most iconic albums, Five Man Acoustical Jam. TESLA has endured many of the same taste-changing challenges that affected many in the post-grunge world, but through it all, their blue-collar work ethic and dedication to the faithful fan base has helped them not just survive, but thrive.
Younger audiences follow the band because they know the music is real. Older audiences love that a band styled on the classic 1970s model can still kick ass all over the world. TESLA is a band for the ages. All ages.
They were never a flavor of the month. TESLA’s legacy is alive and well as they continue to record and sell out venues all over the world. As comfortable, rugged, and dependable as your favorite pair of boots, they endure. TESLA is a celebration of the greatest spirits of rock and roll.

Authors @ The Ector - Literary Death Match
2022-09-12 19:00 | TX
Tickets: https://events.eventgroove.com/event/Literary-Death-Match-58448
Literary Death Match, co-created by Adrian Todd Zuniga, marries the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of American Idol’s judging (without any meanness), and the ridiculousness and hilarity ofDouble Dare.
Each episode of this competitive, humor-centric reading series features a thrilling mix of four famous and emerging authors (all representing a literary publication, press or concern — online, in print or live) who perform their most electric writing in seven minutes or less before a lively audience and a panel of three all-star judges. After each pair of readings, the judges — focused on literary merit, performance and intangibles — take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary about each story, then select their favorite to advance to the finals.
The two finalists then compete in the Literary Death Match finale, which trades in the show’s literary sensibility for an absurd and comical climax to determine who takes home the Literary Death Match crown.
It may sound like a circus — and that’s half the point. Literary Death Match is passionate about inspecting new and innovative ways to present text off the page, and the most fascinating part about the LDM is how seriously attentive the audience is during each reading. We’ve called this the great literary ruse: an audacious and inviting title, a harebrained finale, but in-between the judging creates a relationship with the viewer as a judge themselves.
Our ultimate goal is to perform the Literary Death Match all over the world, and to continue to showcase literature as a brilliant, unstoppable medium.
