THEATER & FILM
March 4
Four Clowns
The award-winning Four Clowns plays, from March 4 through 19,
at the Long Beach Playhouse
Four Clowns follows human archetypes, the sad clown the
mischievous clown, the angry clown and the nervous clown, as they lament and
reminisce about their past.
The show includes violence and sexual situations.
Tickets are $10.
Details: (562) 508-1788; www.AliveTheatre.org
Venue: Long Beach Playhouse Studio Theater
Location: 5021 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach
March 4
Pushing the Elephant
Community Cinema presents Pushing the Elephant, at 8 p.m. March
4, at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro.
Pushing the Elephant captures a story of genocidal violence
challenged by the fortitude of one woman’s mission for peace.
Community Cinema’s free screening are paired with a panel discussion,
an on-stage interview or other form of engagement to explore the topics raised
by that evening’s featured documentary. These topics are being used to drive
curricula in various schools and other learning forums.
Details: (310) 548-7672; www.warnergrand.org
Venue: Warner Grand Theatre
Location: 478 W. 6th St., San Pedro
March 4 The Sugar Bean Sisters
Enjoy Nathan Sanders’ The Sugar Bean Sisters, from March 4 through
April 9, at Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro.
In this Southern Gothic comedy of romance, murder and alien abduction,
the Nettle sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood -- Willie Mae by going
to Salt Lake and finding a good Mormon husband, and Faye by hopping on the
spaceship when the "space people" return to visit Sugar Bean, Florida.
Details:(310) 512-6030; www.littlefishtheatre.org
Venue: Little Fish Theatre
Location: 777 Centre St., San Pedro
March 9
My Wife's Husband
Laugh with Miro Gavran’s My Wife's Husband, from March 9 through 24
at the Little Fish Theatre in San Pedro.
The play is about a husband, who discovers his commuter wife has another
husband on the other side of her commute, he decides to settle matters once
and for all. Comic rivalry abounds as each vies for the right to be their wife's
husband.
Gavran has won several literary awards, including the European Circle
Award, and is one of the most prolific and widely translated contemporary
Croatian playwrights.
Tickets range from $18 to $25.
Details:(310) 512-6030; www.littlefishtheatre.org
Venue: Little Fish Theatre
Location: 777 Centre St., San Pedro
March 24
The Sons of Tennessee Williams
The Artful Thinking Organization is presenting The Sons of Tennessee
Williams, starting at 9 p.m. March 24, at the Art Theatre in Long Beach.
The Sons of Tennessee Williams is a documentary about the gay men of
New Orleans, who created a vast and fantastic culture of "drag balls" starting in
the late 1950s. These men worked with the traditions of Mardi Gras to bring gay
culture into public settings in the early 1960s.
They staged a flamboyant, costumed revolution without politics or violence
and won freedoms during a time, just as now, when laws and people fought
against them.
By 1969, there were four gay Mardi Gras krewes, legally chartered by the
state of Louisiana and they succeeded in bringing down the “Jim Crow” laws that
targeted gay people for offenses such as public assembly, same-sex dancing and
cross-dressing.
Artful Thinking Organization is a Long Beach nonprofit that engages in
artful activities related to educating the public about HIV/AIDS and Breast
Cancer.
Tickets are $11.
Details: (562) 438-5435; www.arttheatrelongbeach.com
Venue: Art Theatre
Location: 2025 E. 4th St., Long Beach
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