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Here & Heard: One Story at a Time

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 26, 2026

One-time

When

3:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Where

Appell Center for the Performing Arts

Here & Heard: One Story at a Time turns the Studio into a genuine storytelling stage on Saturday, September 26, opening its doors at 2:30 PM with food, music, and community connection before performances begin at 3:00 PM. Performers from Central Pennsylvania, New York City, Baltimore, and beyond bring poetry, dramatic performance, and improv to explore identity, history, grief, resilience, joy, healing, and transformation — a 2-hour-30-minute afternoon built around real voices rather than a single headliner. Proceeds from the $40 ticket benefit Sankofa African American Theatre Company, making this one of the more community-rooted bookings inside the Appell Center's century-old walls on North George Street. It's an ages-16+ show, and one that trades the usual concert-or-film format for something more intimate and human. $40.

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