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Your Weekend Entertainment, January 22-24
January 22, 2010
Let’s start things off with Patrick’s Cabaret, which is gearing up for its first new cabaret show of 2010. Aesthetic Elevator takes place Friday and Saturday nights. It will feature: dance by Erin Liebhard, Kats Fukasawa-Butoh, David Means-intermedia art, a short film by Tucker Dryden, dance by Anat Shinar, and theater with Vickijoan Keck. Buy tickets
Bryant Lake Bowl’s theater has a double-header of Party in the Rec Room (a comedy bash) and Ye Olde Vylyfycation Tennys Showe (a take on Renaissance Festivals) on both Friday and Saturday nights. On Sunday, it’s The Problem of the Body, in which “Damon Rudman probes contemporary American attitudes toward bodily urges by comparing today’s US media with jaw-dropping imagery from other times and places.” Buy tickets
Dumb/Sex wraps up at Old Arizona Friday & Saturday. It’s a double feature of Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter and Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago, with some improv thrown into the mix as well.
There are not one but two venues for kid friendly puppet shows on Saturday. At 10:00 AM and again at noon, In the Heart of the Beast Theatre presents Big Fish, which has two stories. “Many small fish get together to overcome the big fish. An African American family moves into an all white neighborhood in the 1930s, and are welcomed with open arms!”
The other venue is East Lake Library. At 11:00 AM on Saturday, “the delightful Megan & Friends will help us celebrate Martin Luther King Day by teaching, entertaining and inspiring us to make the world a better place. Join us at 11:00 and stay after the show to meet the puppets. For children ages 4-10.”
Bibliophiles can head to Magers & Quinn on Sunday, for a book reading with author Maaza Mengiste. She’ll be reading her novel Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, a “memorable heartbreaking story that opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution.”
And there’s always something for local music lovers at Sauce Spirits & Soundbar, and this weekend is no exception. Friday night it’s City On The Make, Black Blondie, and Military Special. On Saturday, The Van Gobots, Big Lake, and The Drive Back. Both shows have a $5 cover and are 21+. And on Sunday, DJ Gary Slam visits, with no cover charge.
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