Calendar: Theater & Arts
By Daily Bruin Staff
April 21, 2004 9:00 p.m.
“N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk”
Los Angeles Theatre Center
Now through May 8 UCLA students Miles Gregley, Allan Axibal and
Rafael Agustin have taken another step toward theater stardom as
their controversial and popular production, a runaway hit on
campus, moves to Downtown for a highly anticipated run. The trio
pulls no punches (as the title can attest) in tackling the issue of
racism. It also plans to perform for inner-city youth in the area.
If you missed it the first few times and you’ve been kicking
yourself ever since, here’s your chance to redeem yourself.
Tickets are $12 for students. Call (323) 461-3673 for more
information.
“The Drawer Boy”
The Colony Theatre
Now through May 9 Winner of four Dora Awards (the Canadian version
of the Tony) including Best Play, this Michael Healey-penned play
was also named one of the top 10 plays of the year by Time
Magazine. The story revolves around two bachelor farmers growing
gray in 1972 rural Ontario. The lifelong friends’ quiet
existence gets rudely interrupted when a big city actor asks to
research their daily lifestyle for his play about farming. Tickets
range from $23-$32. Call (818) 558-7000 for more information.
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
Celebration Theatre
Now through May 23 Transsexual rocker from East Germany with a
botched sex change operation settles in a trailer in Kansas. A
twisted premise indeed. Hedwig Schmidt, in search of a spouse,
pours her/his heart out in this emotional play directed by Derek
Charles Livingston. Tickets are $20 with student ID. Call (323)
957-1884 for more information.
Stella Comedy Show
Knitting Factory
April 23, 7:30 p.m. A resident comedian on VH-1’s recent
“I Love the ’70s” and “I Love the
’80s” programs, Michael Ian Black has been delivering
deadpan one-liners since MTV’s 1995 comedy show “The
State.” He joins fellow comics Michael Showalter and David
Wain for “Stella,” which has played to sold-out
audiences in New York since its 1997 opening. Tickets are $15.
Visit www.ticketweb.com for more information.
“The Days When Cocaine Was
King”
American Renegade Theatre
April 23-May 29, 8 p.m. As if a story about a past-its-prime,
over-the-hill rock band hasn’t been done enough, John J.
Fanelli writes and directs this play about The Larrys, a very, very
poor man’s Spinal Tap that is still living in the ’70s
after all these years. Lead singer Ro Chambeaux and his bandmates
Sketch Noonan, Spank Dangler and Johnny Viagra journey through
broken dreams, broken friendships and, oh yeah, drugs and sex.
Tickets are $20. Visit www.tix.com for reservations.
Michael Horsham
Perloff Hall Decafé 1302
April 26, 6:30 p.m. A member of the international design consortium
Tomato, Horsham is the latest in a very long line of experts who
are here on campus to teach design students how to make it in the
real world and eventually take his job. Free and open to the
public. Call (310) 267-4704 for more information.
