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Making a pitch for charity
Tim Wakefield and Johnny Damon host a benefit show, plus a found footage festival and more
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FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL Not the one sponsored by Found magazine but an entirely different lot of dumpster-diving anti-cinema, this one featuring TV shopping-channel mishaps, gory industrial films, and an early Arnold Schwarzenegger appearance in a Brazilian travel video. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline | July 23 | 617.734.2500. PITCHING IN FOR KIDS Tim Wakefield and Johnny Damon host this variety show to benefit the Franciscan Hospital for Children, with local stand-up guys Kevin Knox, Jim Dunn, Harrison Stebbins, and Paul Nardizzi, an A-list gourmet spread by chefs including Todd English, and a silent auction. Comedy Connection at Faneuil Hall, Boston | July 28 | 7 pm | $150 | 617.367.3322. SUMMER CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE To benefit their respective comedy and theater troupes, a pair of award-winning playwrights, Queer Soup’s Jess Martin and Another Country Productions’ Lyralen Kaye, team up to present staged readings of their recent work. Martin’s Interview with a Fifty-Foot Woman and its sequel, Revenge of the Fifty-Foot Woman: Journey to the Center of Canada, prove that "Martian invaders, mad scientists, and coffee just don’t mix"; Kaye’s My Mother and the Nun concerns "a ’70s housewife who falls in love with her children’s Catholic-school principal." Boston Playwrights Theatre, 949 Comm Ave, Boston | July 29-30 | 8 pm | $20-$50 | www.queersoup.net. WALTZING TO WAR Warmongers beware: part autobiographical reminiscence, part mime, part commedia dell’arte, with some poetry thrown in, the two-man Cosmic Spelunker Theater brings its performance-art smorgasbord to Zeitgeist Gallery. Boston-based performers Ian Thal and James Van Looey, the latter a Vietnam-era veteran, are staples of the local poetry and spoken-word scene, and their piece has grown from a 15-minute vignette to an hour-long group of sketches running the gamut from realistic to stylized to surreal. Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge | August 1 | 7 pm | 617.877.6060.
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