WE ARE KEEPING THE ARTBEAT ALIVE BECAUSE WE L❤VE THE ARTS! The Franklin-Simpson Community Arts Council is celebrating 42 years of bringing great arts and entertainment to Franklin and the surrounding area. Since Covid, the last two and half years have been very, very busy making up for lost time, and not having the opportunity to perform for you for.. We were so happy to finally bring arts and entertainment to you once again in June 2021. We were so excited to be back in the newly renovated, Goodnight Auditorium and delighted to host the wonderful artistry of two lovely, talented ladies, Kathy Mattea & Suzy Bogguss, with their first joint performance, Together at Last. We followed that up in July with an encore performance of Debbie Thornton's Historical Fiction, This Place We Call Home, based on our hometown, Franklin, Kentucky. We celebrated our 40th Anniversary that August witha Summer Musical Review, we also helped sponsor the inaugural Summer Vibes Festival held in Downtown Franklin, as well as the High School Musical, In the Heights. In addition, in October 2021, we once again sponsored the Halloween Costume Contest during Boofest, followed up with our annual Christmas play, The Bigger/Better Pageant at Barrington Hills and our annual Christmas Concert in December.
We did not slow down, and in 2022, we immediately got to work on our February Youth Theatre Production of Disney's Aladdin, Jr, with lots of great acting and singing from about 50 local children. We followed that up in Match by performing the hilarious comedy, Greater Tuna, as part of our Retro Series, and in July, we performed the award-winning musical Fiddler on the Roof as our annual Summer Musical production. The year continued with us sponsoring our annual Costume Contest during Boofest in October,, and our annual Christmas Concert the 1st of December. We ended 2022 with bang by performing the hilarious follow up to Greater Tuna, Tuna Christmas as a Dinner Theatre in mid-December.
2023 has been no different as we continue to bring lots of great programing to the community. We held our first ever Murder Mystery Dinner in February.You Have the Right to Remain Dead was a resounding success, as we had sell-out crowds for all three performances. We then brought the popularDisney's The Descendants to the stage for our Youth Theatre Production in March. This year's Summer Musical will be Matilda the Musical to be performed toward the end of July, and our Retro Series Dinner Theatre production. of Steel Magnolias will be held in August. We have plans for another Murder Mystery Dinner for October and future plans hopefully includes another Christmas play, as well as our annual Christmas Concert in December...so please continue to check this website on the Future Events Tabs with more detailed information as it becomes available.