Brews and the Bard Festival

at Locust Post Brewery

Locust Post Brewery will partner with the Cumberland Theatre and other local businesses and musicians to present the first annual Brews and the Bard Festival. The event will be held at the brewery from 12:00 – 6:00 pm.

Local band Cadence will take the stage from 12:00 – 3:00 pm and Gilbert Lee and Ghost on the Radio will follow from 3:00 – 6:00 pm. The festival will also offer bourbon tastings from Charis Winery and Distillery and a bloody mary bar featuring Charis vodka. Smoked turkey legs will be available from Mis En Place as well as pizzas from the brewery kitchen.

The day will include various games for both kids and adults, as well as crafts, short live performances and a photo booth. Ren-faire style costumes are encouraged, but not required.

Tickets are $10 (benefitting the Cumberland Theatre) and are available at the door on the day of the event or in advance at cumberlandtheatre.com. Those purchasing in advance will receive a free token to play a game of their choice.

To inquire about vendor space for artisans, please email info@cumberlandtheatre.com.

Locust Post Brewery is located at 31706 Adams Road, Little Orleans, MD.

It's a Wonderful Life

An adaptation of the beloved Frank Capra film starring Jimmy Stewart. It is Christmas Eve, and George Bailey stands on a bridge looking over the icy waters below, contemplating suicide. Joseph, an unseen angel, calls on The Boss for advice, and they decide on Clarence Oddbody, an Angel Second Class who, after 200 years, has yet to earn his wings. Joseph takes Clarence into the past to see George as a boy, rescuing his brother from drowning, enduring a beating from grieving druggist Gower, saving a child from accidental poisoning, then growing up to forgo college so he can save the family business and keep the citizens of Bedford Falls from being ruined by the Depression and the machinations of the conniving Henry Potter.

George marries his childhood sweetheart, has a family, and resigns himself to a life of "failure." When his Uncle Billy misplaces $8,000 of the Building and Loan's money, George takes responsibility and runs to the bridge to commit suicide. Clarence stops him, and when George wishes he had never been born, makes the wish come true. Now George wanders through a Bedford Falls that has been rechristened Pottersville and has fallen far without him to save it. He realizes how many lives he has touched, how many people he has helped—and that he has been a success, after all.