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THIS WEEK in L.A.
Last chance to see one of this season's terrific plays at Theatricum Botanicum, plus: Italian feasting in Hollywood, Tarfest near the tarpits, Octoberfest in Newbury Park, Disco Fever at the Bowl, and Donna Summer, Ciara and The Beach Boys at the L.A. County Fair... this weekend in LA.
DOWNTOWN SPEEDWAY? This Saturday Grand and 5th avenues will be turned over to the wacky racers of the Red Bull Soapbox Race. The pits open at 11am and the races start at 1pm. Go Metro and have some fun watching 40 wild and crazy racers careen around downtown in their hand built, human powered vehicles.
L.A. COUNTY FAIR TIPS: Special discounts available this weekend! If you go during the day it can get mighty hot - cool off in the shady areas near Bark Park and the Home & Garden exhibits. Watch out for extreme fair food - they'll fry anything there - who knows what'll be on the menu (look for chocolate covered bacon this year). My favorite eats: hand dipped ice cream bars and smoked turkey legs. THIS WEEKEND'S ENTERTAINMENT: Donna Summer, Ciara and the Beach Boys.
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 The Incomparable Meg Stuart Kicks Off the Dance Season at REDCAT by Kelly Hargraves
REDCAT kicks off the dance season in LA with the incomparable MEG STUART, the American ex pat who has made her work and name living in Belgium for over 15 years. Meg's work has a visceral, almost ominous under-currant that resonates in the athletic, intrinsic, almost competitive movement vocabulary.
This a one of those shows you really, really don't want to miss! And, if you ever get a chance to study with her, I highly recommend it. It's been more than a decade since I studied with her but it was one of the best workshops I have ever taken.
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ON STAGE
 Shining City Shines at the Fountain Theatre. The psychological blends with the parapsychological in the Los Angeles premiere of Conor McPherson's, Shining City.
John (Morlan Higgins) is distraught over the death of his wife. He seeks out Ian (William Dennis Hurley), a local therapist in Dublin, to help him deal with his feelings. John is being visited by the ghost of his late wife. He flees his home and takes up residence at a local bed and breakfast. Ian spends a great deal of time trying to convince John that there is no such thing as ghosts... Full Review by Mike Buzzelli
F*cking Fun at the Celebration Theatre. Playwright Joe Dipietro opens up the closets (bedrooms, locker rooms, and broom closets) of a group of sex starved gay men in the American premiere of F*cking Men (The West End production made use of the u).
DiPietro takes Arthur Schnitzler's 19th century play La Ronde and puts a 20th century spin on it. The playwright breathes new life into the aphorism, "Everything that goes around comes around."
Actually, there is more coming than going... Full Review by Mike Buzzelli  Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins. Christopher Williams examines a unique time in American history, one rife with global recession, double digit unemployment and intolerant beauty queens. Okay. Maybe it's not such a unique time... Full Review by Mike Buzzelli  Gaslight is a gas at Theatre West where there are eerie things going down on Angel Street in Patrick Hamilton's Victorian thriller. Mrs. Manningham suspects she is losing her mind. Pictures disappear from the walls, bills get misplaced, and her favorite hair brush has been missing for months. Her husband accuses her of loosing or hiding the items. She cannot recollect doing any of these things, and fears that she will go mad just as her very own mother did... Full Review by Mike Buzzelli |
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FORD'S MAGIC SKYWAY, 1964 |
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by Charles Phoenix |
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A six-pack of people sit tight in the lipstick red vinyl interior of a cool blue metallic Falcon Futura following a Galaxie 500 into a Walt Disney Adventure Through Time and Space. "Ladies and Gentlemen please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times...and remember, no smoking please!" I can hear it coming out of the car radio speaker as they pass through the fractured arched entrance. And how much are we lovin' that smart little hat on that junior miss in the front seat!
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