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CapLive: Brett Dennen – Art Is Life

at Appell Center for the Performing Arts

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Downtown York's grandest room isn't one room — it's two. The Appell Center runs the 1,262-seat Strand and the more intimate 450-seat Capitol, a pair of restored 1920s movie palaces on North George Street that have been the city's big stage for a century (the Strand just hit its 100th birthday this season). One night it's a national touring act or a comedian, the next it's the York Symphony or a classic on the big screen through the CapFilm series. It's the kind of place with real history in the walls — it reopened in 1980 with Ella Fitzgerald on the bill and hasn't stopped booking since. Grab tickets, dress up a little if you feel like it, and remember that a proper night out doesn't always start at a bar. Sometimes the best seat in York has a curtain in front of it.

September 23, 2026

One-time

When

7:30 PM

Where

Appell Center for the Performing Arts

Brett Dennen has spent two decades turning the nooks and crannies of the human condition into songs that land somewhere between confessional and communal, and he brings that catalog to the Capitol Theatre on Wednesday, September 23 at 7:30 PM. The California singer-songwriter's latest record, If It Takes Forever, leans into rich acoustic guitars and the kind of deeply felt sentiment that's carried his music into shows like Parenthood and earned him collaborators like John Mayer and Jason Mraz along the way. It's an intimate-scale show suited to an intimate-scale room — the 450-seat Capitol, one half of the Appell Center's pair of restored 1920s movie palaces on North George Street, has the kind of warmth and close sightlines that make a singer-songwriter set feel like it's happening just for you. Tickets start at $34.

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