Lights!  Camera!  Glamour!

Theatre for Children/Theatre for Adults!

New Work in SMMoA Project Room

Whales and Art

More Lights, More Action & More Glamour!

Bunnicula
Saturdays & Sundays at 11 am
February 2 through 17, 2008
Morgan-Wixson Theatre
2627 Pico Boulevard
310/828.7519

For the younger set, it's a musical version of the popular children’s novel Bunnicula.  Someone is sucking the life out of innocent vegetables at the Monroe house!  Could the family’s new foundling rabbit – Bunnicula – actually be a vampire? Or is this just another case of pet rivalry? Harold the dignified dog and Chester the literate cat must solve the mystery and save their human family.  Just out of curiosity, if something drained the life out of a vegetable, would ill-mannered radishes say "Oh, just pull the plug! That carrot's nothing but a human!"?

Social Security
Friday and Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sunday shows are at 2:00 pm
January 18-February 16
Morgan-Wixson Theater
2627 Pico Blvd.
310/828.7519

For the grown up theatre lovers, the Santa Monica Theatre Guild presents a comedy by one of Hollywood¹s funniest screenwriters, Andrew Bergman (The In-Laws, Blazing Saddles, Fletch).  Social Security tells the tale of married gallery owners Barbara and David Kahn, whose domestic tranquility is shattered by the arrival of Barbara’s sister, brother-in-law, and eccentric septuagenarian mother, Sophie.   When the Kahns introduce Sophie to the gallery’s most brilliant artist, the family discovers that seniors never lose interest in the opposite sex. 

Judgment Modification (After Memling)
Brody Condon
Project Room 1
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Through April 12, 2008
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue

Known for his recreations of religious paintings in the style of contemporary computer game visuals, Condon uses technology as the raw material for his art.  In the artist’s first solo museum exhibition on the west coast, he creates a site-specific digital animation based on The Last Judgment by Hans Memling. 

Whale of a Weekend
Santa Monica Pier Aquarium
12:30 – 5:00 pm
Friday & Saturday
February 2 & 3
1600 Ocean Park Walk (Beneath the Pier)
310/ 393-6149 x105

Gray Whales travel over 10,000 miles annually from Baja past Santa Monica and on to the Antarctic. To highlight these heroic excursions, Heal the Bay has scheduled a host of whale-related activities this weekend.  Inside the Aquarium, children can make a variety of whale related arts and crafts, including a Santa Monica Bay wildlife guide and a pair of cardboard binoculars.  There will be storytelling, face painting, film screenings and lots more, so get on down there and learn more facts about these giants of the Oceans.  Just don’t tell Lou Dobbs about those illegal oceanic border crossings!

Dr. Lou D'Elia, curator of the George Hurrell glamour photography exhibit at the California Heritage Museum treats us to a look at Hurrell's work. And if the beautiful images created by Hollywood's master photographer are not enough, the lecture is Followed by a screening of You Were Never Lovelier, starring Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth.

Actor and producer Sam Lovett continues his run in this critically acclaimed biographical one-man-show at the Miles Playhouse.  Written by Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy and directed by Cynthia Park, Vincent explores the relationship between Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo.  They'll be beaming him up this weekend, so check this out before it closes on Sunday!