From 2 huge music festivals to a showcase of new plays in Palo Alto, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend.
Lyricist and performer Shakina will perform in a staged reading of “5 & Dime,” a new musical based on the play “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.”From a festival of new plays to a Wynton Marsalis concerto to an apple festival in Sonoma, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this weekend and beyond. Here’s a partial rundown.
Among the readings are “Five & Dime,” a musical based on the classic play “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean,” featuring nationally acclaimed transgender performer Shakina; “Hysterical,” Molly Bell’s rollercoaster ride of solo show; “Lieberling,” a dramedy focusing on two novelists, one Cambodian and one German; and “A Driving Beat,” featuring a hip-hop-fueled mother-son road trip.
There’s an apple-pie baking contest, cute livestock and wandering entertainers, cheese-making and sheep-shearing demos and a panel discussion Saturday about protecting agricultural diversity, featuring Alice Waters and Albert Straus of Straus Family Creamery fame.
Since then, Crowded Fire transitioned to a collective model and left its longtime venue Potrero Stage, and Finch wrote the acclaimed “Josephine’s Feast” for a Magic Theatre. Yet “Shipping & Handling” remained postponed, until now, with Crowded Fire finally presenting the play at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center.
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