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BY PAUL FRISWOLD Pembroke’s Arcadia into a modern story of gender politics, identity and the need to progress from the old ways to the new. New Line Theatre presents Head Over Heels at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday (March 5 to 28) at the Marcelle Theatre (3310 Samuel Shepard Drive; www.newlinetheatre.com). Tickets are $20 to $30.
THURSDAY 03/05 California Scheming Scott Phillips has written a slew of tough-guy crime novels that feature desperate characters involved in some greasy business. Douglas Rigby is his latest antihero, a financially and morally bankrupt attorney who just lost almost a quarter-million dollars on a coke deal gone belly-up. Rigby’s next swing for the fences is art forgery, and all he has to do is keep his hand-picked forger, his girlfriend, the painting owner’s nurse and a couple of other people from screwing it all up. That Left Turn at Albuquerque is laced with black humor, violence and middlemen, all crowded together under the dying sun of Southern California. Phillips reads from and signs copies of his book as part of the old Noir at the Bar series. Festivities start at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 5, at Meshuggah Café (6269 Delmar Boulevard, University City; www. subbooks.com). Admission is free, and copies of Phillips’ book will be available to purchase.
FRIDAY 03/06 Piecemeal Play In 2015, the Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble produced a sensational production of Liz Duffy Adams’ Or, a Restoration comedy/thriller with actual Resto-
SATURDAY 03/07 ’Scope the Walls
Floral designer Maurice Harris will speak at Art in Bloom. | COURTESY OF SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM ration playwright/spy Aphra Behn as a character. Behn was a pioneering woman who wrote, loved freely and gave men as good as she got. In her memory, SATE began the Aphra Behn Festival, a showcase of new short plays written, directed, acted, designed, costumed and photographed by women. This year, the company switches gears and instead presents selected scenes from The Rover, Behn’s most enduring play (it was so popular in her lifetime she wrote a sequel).
The artists participating in the 2020 Aphra Behn Festival. | JOEY RUMPELL PHOTOGRAPHY
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Set in Naples during Carnival, the play charts the romantic adventures between a group of English cavaliers and various Neapolitan women. The show starts at 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday (March 6 to 8) at the Centene Center for the Arts (3547 Olive Street; www. slightlyoff.org). Tickets are $15.
Go? Go. King Basilius has been given an ominous four-part prophecy that comes with dire consequences; if all four parts are fulfilled, the ingdom will lose the famous “beat” that maintains its health and fortune. As if he didn’t have enough problems. His oldest daughter, Pamela, is incredibly beautiful but will not select a husband from her many suitors. Basilius’ younger daughter Philoclea is in love with her childhood friend Musidorus, a shepherd with no real prospects. If all of this seems like strange source material for a musical, you’d be right; but throw in the songs and music of the Go-Go’s and you’re on to something. Jeff Whitty and James Magruder’s Head Over Heels loosely adapts the sixteenthcentury novel The Countess of
Artscope’s largest fundraiser of the year is Wall Ball, which helps the arts education organization continue to provide a creative outlet for kids. Wall Ball gathers together local artists such as Maribel Ramirez, Chauncey Gholston, Cbabi Bayoc and Dr. Amber Johnson for an evening of creation and libations. The artists handle the creation, as each one makes a new work of art during the evening, with patrons placing silent bids as the piece approaches completion. The libations (soda, beer and wine) are included in the $60 to $70 ticket price, and there’s a cash bar for the cocktail crowd. You get drinks and a new artwork for your walls, and the kids get to pursue their artistic dreams — everybody wins. Wall Ball takes place from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at Third Degree Glass Factory (5200 Delmar Boulevard; www.artscopestl.org/wall-ball).
In Full Bloom The Saint Louis Art Museum (1 Fine Arts Drive; www.slam.org) once again welcomes the impending spring with Art in Bloom, its annual celebration of owers and fine art. his riday, aturday and Sunday (March 6 to 8) is packed with seminars, lectures, happy hours and presentations by oral experts and enthusiasts from across the globe. n ugar owers and the Artistry of the Dutch Old Masters, Amsterdam-based designer Natasja Sadi will demonstrate how she creates sustainable, lifeli e sugar owers and then arranges them with actual owers in the style of Dutch still-life painting. A trio of local experts — Cindy O’Hare, La’Crassia Wilderness and
