Tickets are now on sale for “Lucky Stiff,” an offbeat, murder-mystery farce complete with mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair.
The show runs Thurs., Oct. 9 – Sat., Oct. 11, at 7:30pm at Newton South’s Lab Theatre. Tickets are $10 and available online at www.SouthStage.org.
At their meeting Oct. 8, the Public Facilities and Public Safety and Transportation Committees will discuss a proposal to modify and make permanent the trial sidewalk snow and ice removal program. The meeting will be held at 7 PM in Room 209 of Newton City Hall. The meeting is open to the public.
The Newton Theatre Company, resident at the Newton Cultural Center, will hold open auditions for Moliere’s ”The Imaginary Invalid” on Tuesday,October 21, from 6-8:00pm at the Newton Cultural Center at City Hall.
“The Imaginary Invalid” is a hilarious 17th-century comedy about a hypochondriac and his plan to marry off his daughter, Angelique, to an imbecile doctor-in-training. Angelique is in love with someone else; the hypochondriac’s second wife is scheming against him; and charlatan medical professionals come and go. Keeping her wits about her, while poking good fun at her employer, is Toinette, the saucy maid who rights all wrongs by the end of the play.
Rehearsals will be Sunday afternoons January through April. Actors must be free most Sundays during a two-hour time slot: 12-2pm, 2-4pm, 4-6pm. Performance will be Saturday, May 2 at 2:00pm.
Email director Melissa Bernstein at in**@******************ny.com to schedule an audition. For more information, visit the NTC audition page.
The Asian Cultural Festival will be held on Saturday October 11, between noon and 5pm at Newton City Hall, 1000 Commonwealth Ave. So come early and spend the afternoon enjoying Asian culture!
12 – 2:30 pm: Asian communities and organizations with Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Southeast Asian heritage will present children’s activities and games, exhibitions and workshops for both children and adults.
Don’t miss the varieties of delicious Asian cuisines brought to you by local Asian restaurants starting from noon till they are sold out.
2:30 – 5pm Colorful cultural performances will take place to entertain everyone.
For a detailed program of events, visit www.newtoncommunitypride.org
Tickets are on sale for the Watertown Children’s Theatre (WCT) production of “The Phantom Tollbooth,” which runs from October 24 – 26.
To buy tickets and learn about other WCT productions and events, visit the website at http://www.watertownchildrenstheatre.org/.
NewTV is offering a free, 4-week course held at Newton elementary and middle schools during after- school hours. Students will learn how to put create a storyboard, write scripts, and use video cameras to create music videos and public service announcements. The finished products will be aired on NewTV’s Education Channel.
Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Classes have a capacity of 12 students . To sign up, please contact NewTV’s Director of Educational Media, Joe Garozzo at jo**@***tv.org.
November 3 – November 26
Monday- Angier School (3-4:30)
Tuesday- Bowen School (12:30-2)
Wednesday- Burr School (3-4:30)
January 5 – January 29
Monday-Cabot School (3-4:30)
Tuesday- Countryside School (12:30-2)
Wednesday- Franklin School (3-4:30)
Thursday- Horace Mann School (3-4:30)
February 3 – February 24
Monday – F.A. Day School (3-5)
Tuesday – Brown School (12:30-2:30)
Wednesday – Oak Hill School (3-5)
Thursday – Bigelow School (3-5)
March 2 – March 23
Monday- Ward School (3-4:30)
Tuesday-Lincoln-Eliot School (12:30-2)
Wednesday-Mason-Rice School (3-4:30)
Thursday- Williams School (3-4:30)
March 30 – April23
Monday-Memorial Spaulding (3-4:30)
Tuesday-Peirce School (12:30-2)
Wednesday- Underwood School (3-4:30)
Thursday- Zervas School (3-4:30)
There will be an Angier Project Update meeting on Thursday, October 9th at 7pm at the Waban Library Center.
These meetings will be held regularly on the second Thursday of each month for the duration of the project. The Waban Area Council will hold its monthly meeting immediately following at 7:30pm. Please visit the Waban Area Council’s website to view the agenda and learn more about issues of importance to Waban.
Volunteers are needed to rake leaves for Newton senior citizens in your neighborhood, beginning October 25 and running through November 23. This is one of Newton At Home’s volunteer opportunities for youth to engage with Newton seniors in their neighborhoods.
Sign up for one 2-hour shift. Parents, consider becoming a volunteer for Newton At Home along with your child. Please call 617-795-2560 or email to volunteer: vo******@**********me.org
A member of the Village to Village Network, this Newton non-profit is a members’ driven, neighbor-to-neighbor organization serving our city’s residents 60 years of age and older.
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