Ten Minute Plays at the Miles

Cruising into the Final Pit

Gee, Officer Krupke!

Pirates, Mermaids, Sailors and Princes

Walking Through History

Rock and Roll Will Never Die!

10 Minute Play Festival
8:00 pm
Thursday - Sunday
2:00 pm on Sunday
Miles Memorial Playhouse
1130 Lincoln Boulevard
In Reed Park
866/811.4111
Or on-line

Fire Rose Productions wraps up its 6th Annual 10-Minute Play Competition this weekend with 8 new works each approximately 10 minutes long. The competition's goal is to seek out innovative work by playwrights and present them to live audiences. With over 300 submissions from around the world, this year's festival has picked some excellent selections that will definitely make for an entertaining evening.

The Discount Cruise to Hell's
THE FINAL DESCENT
8:30 pm
Friday & Saturday
Highways Performance Space
1651 18th Street
Buy tickets on line 

Only Highways could present a show best described as a heartwarming-horror-show-acid-rock-musical-theatre of the macabre.  It’s the fourth annual halloween voyage of the damned - the story of a cruise ship and its its desperate entertainers on a one-way trip to Hell.  If bawdy audacity, outrageous debauchery, mind bending glitter rock, flamboyantly daring hero quests, and other types of mad theatricality appeal to your senses, you should definitely get on board.  But Adults Only, No Children Allowed.

Photo Courtesy of Cinema Sightlines

West Side Story
7:30 pm
Saturday, October 25
Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Tickets on line at Fandango

Combine a brand new 70 mm print with the intimacy of the Aero Theatre and you get a viewing of the classic Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins musical masterpiece West Side Story like you've never seen it before. You'll never forget Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers surrounded by switchblade-carrying gangs led by Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno and George Chakiris. Leonard Bernstein's soaring music and Stephen Sondheim's lyrics combine to make up one of the finest scores ever written. West Side Story won 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Chakiris) and Actress (Moreno), Cinematography and Art Direction.

Photo courtesy of Fabian Lewkowicz

Santa Monica Pier Halloween Beach Bash
Michael Cladis
Wake Up With The Waves
9:00 am
Saturday, October 25
Santa Monica Pier

Let's play Dress Up!  You can be the very model of a modern major general and I'll be a pirate of Penzance!   Or maybe you'd rather be the Little Mermaid and I'll be the evil Sea Witch.  Or perhaps we're both just sailors soon to set sail for far off lands.  Whatever we might want to be, we'll have a terrific time being it and dancing to Michael Cladis' music on the Pier this Saturday morning - at least as long as we're under six-years old.. Head out to the western end of the parking lot where you'll see costumed kiddies getting their party vibe down.

Over the course of a healthy two-hour walk you can learn about more than 130 years of Santa Monica's history - from its Wild West frontier days to the City we all know and love today. You'll visit the Rapp Saloon, opened the year the city was founded, see splendid examples of Romanesque Revival, Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architecture and come away with a deep appreciation for Santa Monica's history.

All the McCabe’s calendar had to say about this evening was “This Will Be Very, Very Cool” And it will be!  Michael Ochs has spent years documenting the lives of great rock and roll musicians.  Along the way, he also purchased photographs taken by other photographers and managed to assemble the largest archive of rock and roll photographs ever.  Ochs will be showing some great pics from his incredible collection and talking about the fascinating lives he observed from behind the lens of his camera.