Walton Arts Center Presents POSTSECRET

PostSecret: The Show is bringing audience-sourced storytelling to the Walton Arts Center stage for a limited three-show engagement at 7:30 pm on Friday, March 9 and at 2 pm and 8 pm on Saturday, March 10.

Single tickets are $25 plus applicable fees and can be purchased in-person at the Walton Arts Center Box Office, by calling 479.443.5600 or by visiting waltonartscenter.org. For downloadable photos, visit the PostSecret: The Show Dropbox.

The show is based on PostSecret (www.postsecret.com), the internationally recognized public art project where people confess their secrets on homemade postcards anonymously. PostSecret curator and creator, Frank Warren, posts a selection of cards each week on the website.

This stage adaptation is a collaboration between Warren and Canadian theater veterans T.J. Dawe, Kahlil Ashanti and Justin Sudds. Projected images, videos, three actors and a guitarist guide the audience through crowd-sourced narratives revealing the true stories behind the secrets. It brings these moving (and occasionally controversial) stories to the stage with a life-affirming message: "you are not alone."

The show features real stories of how the project has impacted the lives of people around the world, and features dozens of never-before-seen postcards including secrets submitted from Northwest Arkansas. With the bravery of RENT and the surprising honesty of The Vagina Monologues, PostSecret: The Show is a breakthrough, reminding audiences that secrets can be both walls and bridges.

PostSecret has published six best-selling books, been a featured exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., inspired over 1 million postcard submissions and accumulated 1.5 million Facebook followers.

For more information, visit www.waltonartscenter.org.

Walton Arts Center is Arkansas' largest and busiest performing arts presenter. Each year more than 195,000 people from Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma and beyond attend more than 400 public events at Walton Arts Center, including performances, rehearsals, community gatherings, receptions, weddings and more. Approximately 45,000 students and teachers participate annually in arts learning programs at Walton Arts Center, and almost 200 volunteers donate 21,000 hours of time each year to its operations. Walton Arts Center presents entertainers and artists from around the world including Broadway musicals, renowned dance companies, International Artists, up-and-coming jazz musicians and more. As a non-profit organization, Walton Arts Center enjoys the generous support of public sector funding, corporate sponsorship and private donors, allowing audience members to pay on average only 45% of the cost of programs offered. To learn more about Walton Arts Center, visit www.waltonartscenter.org.