Events for August 24, 2026

The In the Living Room Music Series keeps the summer heat going at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Monday, Aug. 24 at 7:00 p.m. This month, series creator and award-winning singer-songwriter Shondra Jepperson turns the spotlight on the multi-award-winning Ryan Biter for a night of soulful storytelling and incisive songwriting.

“The Jerk” — a 1979 comedy directed by Carl Reiner — follows the absurd, hilarious misadventures of Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin), a hopelessly naive and sheltered white man raised by a poor Black sharecropper family in Mississippi. He heads north to St. Louis to find himself.