Stuff To Do: Navigating The Theater Overload
June 20, 2014 by Rudy PanucciThe FestivAll Location plays will present the best of past productions at The Good News Mountaineer Garage Gallery Saturday, June 21. Performances begin at 11 AM, 12 PM, 2 PM and 3 PM. Admission is free, and this doesn’t conflict with anything except for some of the KP fundraising events. The Trolley play, “A Streetcar Named Despair” will be performed next weekend.
Kanawha Players is offering the Summer Semester Burlesque Classes from The Wayward Girls School of Burlesque Friday night only, and that’s followed by a showing of the cult movie, “Spider Baby.” If you want to attend those events, Friday June 20 is your only chance.
Likewise, you will only have two chances to catch Limelight’s “An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein.” If you want to settle in for a fun evening of this great American poet and cartoonist’s works presented by a talented cast, then Friday and Saturday, June 20 and 21 are your only chances. Performances start at 9 PM and admission is free, but Limelight is accepting donation so don’t be chintzy and stiff them. This happens at Timothy’s Bar, below The Quarrier diner.
KP will also have all-day events Saturday and Sunday that you can read about HERE.
Then, if you want to make a full weekend of theater madness, you can attend one of the Sunday Matinees. “The Blob” and “Lost In Yonkers” begin at 2 PM, while “Catch Me If You Can” begins at 3 PM.
If your live theater-eating belly is not stuffed to bursting after all that, then you can attend “A History of Broadway from the Singer’s Perspective” Monday, at Kanawha United Presbyterian Church, starting at 7:30. Admission is free to hear Jon Cavendish spin tales and present songs tracing the history of the Broadway musical in this multi-media presentation.
You could possibly attend at least one event by each local theater troupe this weekend and still make it to some of the other FestivAll events. Maybe next year it’ll be time to spread some of the FestivAll theatrical events outside of the traditional ten-day extravaganza. This weekend is an embarrassment of theatrical riches, but it borders on the ridiculous.