What Are You Doing This Weekend?

We're going to the theatre. How about you?

Another weekend in the Corridor runs the gamut of theatrical selections. Here's the long and the short of it:

@The Englert

ICCT brings you Lerner and Loewe's Gigi. It's a musical about a bored womanizer and who becomes enchanted with a young courtesan-to-be; check out the review here. The show opens March 1st at 7:30 and runs this weekend only.

@ICPL

Riverside is hosting a talk on the historiocity of the character Shylock from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which they will perform in repertory with As You Like It this summer. The talk, by UI professor Miriam Gilbert, is entitled: "Shakespeare and 'the likeness of a Jew' Shylock, Fagin and Disraeli." The lecture is free and open to the public and will be presented at the Iowa City Public Library in Meeting Room A at 7pm on March 1st.

@Riverside

At Gilbert St. itself, Riverside opens its annual monologue festival Walking the Wire this weekend. The show features a variety of performers and writers, and centers on the theme "This Will Never Work." Opens March 2nd and runs through March 11th.

@TCR

TCR closes its run of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde in the Grandon Studio this weekend. See the review here.

@The Ox Yoke Inn

Murder Rides Again, the dinner theatre murder mystery that refused to die, rides on at the Ox Yoke Inn this weekend.

@UI

On Friday and Saturday, MFA acting students present their showcase at Cosmo Catalano Acting Studio.

In Theatre B, Nathan Halvorson directs Sidewinders, a new play by Basil Kreimendahl. It's "an absurdist-western genderqueer romp" that promises to provoke a lot of discussion about sexual identity. (Friday through Sunday)

@UNI

At the University of Northern Iowa, students are offering Dying City by Christopher Shinn, a dark drama about a war widow who encounter's her dead husband's twin brother.

From comedy to drama to intellectual discussion, there's plenty to chose from, so what are you waiting for? Get out to the theatre!