Compiled by the El Reportero’s staff
El cantaautor Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy regresa a SF.
Relationships between couples in crisis and neighbors, plus the tensions between noise and silence, take center stage in this annual festival of studentpenned plays.
Over the past eight years, One-Act Fringe has acted as a springboard for star playwrights such as Marcus Gardley and Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. Plays featured in this festival include: The Ballad of 423 and 424 by Nick Pappas, Fidelity by Marilyn Harris Kriegel and “Brave, Battling Autism” by Mario El Caponi Mendoza. One-Act Fringe is a collaboration between the Creative Writing and Theatre Arts departments at SF State.
Fidelity
By Marilyn Kriegel Directed by Laura Schultze
A man’s joke about an affair leads to his wife’s quest for the nature of truth and fidelity.
Brave, Battling Autism, by Mario Mendoza. Directed by Terry Boero.
A couple’s silences at a vacation resort reveal deep and violent emotions.
The Ballad of 423 and 424, by Nick Pappas. Directed by Tea Toplak A lonely young woman and a reclusive neighbor brave an apartment hallway
to forge an unlikely relationship. On Friday, Oct. 15– Saturday, Oct. 16, 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21–Saturday, Oct. 23, 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, 2 p.m. Little Theatre, Creative Arts Building, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway at 19th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132.
Admission: Advance: $5 students, faculty, staff and seniors/$8 general; Door: $8 students, faculty, staff and seniors/$10 general. For information and tickets call at 415/338-2467 or visit http://creativearts.sfsu.edu/node/2309.
Grand 30th celebration of radio program Aquí Nicaragua
Christiana Herrera.The oldest Nicaragua radio program, Aquí Nicaragua, is celebrating 30 years of active broadcasing, bringing a little piece of the Central American nation to the San Francisco Bay Area. And for that motive, the staff members of Aquí Nicaragua have organized a big celebration with an afternoon event of music with Darío and its Orchestra Extacy and DJ Memo, including the special presentation of Grupo folklórico nicaragüense: Nicaragua Vive, by Edna Prado and child performer Tickets can be purchased at restaurants: Red Balloon, Nicaragua Restaurant, Oye Managua, Carne Asada and Farmacia La Internacional There will be joy and delicious Nicaraguan food. For more information call 415-310-7939. Admission $15.
Free Night of Theateer 2010
This fall Free Night of Theater, the premiere audience development program designed to engage a new generation in the performing arts, celebrates its 6th Anniversary. Throughout the month of October, Theatre Bay Area (TBA) and other California arts organizations will offer close to 10,000 free and discounted theatre tickets to the public.
Free Night of Theater (FNOT) is a national program of Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and produced locally by Theatre Bay Area and other regional partners across the country.
The first giveaway round begins the night of the campaign kick-off, September 29th and would include tickets for performances from October 1st to the 19th.
The second round of FNOT will be conducted exclusively online; beginning on Wednesday, October 13th at 6:00 PM; round two will provide free tickets for performances occurring between October 20th to the 31st. More than 120 theatre companies are providing access to 150 theatre productions in the Bay Area’s Free Night of Theater 2010. A complete listing of FNOT performance offerings will be available online starting September 1st at www.tixbayarea.com and on the Theatre Bay Area Facebook group at facebook.com/theatrebayarea.
