Mind the Gap, Bill.
Much Ado About Nothing
Underground Shakespeare Company.
Thursday November 1 at 8p.m.
Friday November 2 at 7p.m. & 10:30p.m.
Saturday November 3 at 8p.m.
in the Harnwell House Rooftop Lounge
(HRE, 3820 Locust Walk)
$2 admission at the door or on Locust Walk
On a not-so-cold Saturday night in the beginning of September, more than 200 people were gathered quietly on College Green. It wasn't a protest or a rally--this was Shakespeare in the Park, Penn style. Blankets, picnics, wine glasses--the works. And although the occasional skateboard crashing and Penn girl yelping disrupted the serenity, the Underground Shakespeare Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream was intuitive performing arts at its best. This coming weekend, the grass of the Green will be replaced with the concrete of the high rises, but the trickery and the romance will pervade as always. This time around the Company's play will be Much Ado About Nothing--one of Shakespeare's most mellifluous comedies--in which two pairs of not-so-star-cross'd lovers frolic and fumble across the stage before finally getting it on. And only the Bard could get away with having a main character called Benedick, adding to the list of high school "tee-hee" names including Snug, Bottom, Puck, the Bastard of Orleans, Sextus Pompeius and Titus Androgenous.
Homecoming Football Game
Franklin Field
33rd and Locust streets
12:30 p.m., free with ID, $5
Well give me some toast and call me Judy, it's the Homecoming Game! Football has never been more exciting than watching Ivy League athletes go head to head in front of drunken 40-year old alumni and their legacy-bearing children. Be sure to pick up one of those ingenious "Puck Frinceton" shirts on Locust on the way to the game. You'll surely get your money's worth by winding it up and whipping your frat brother's ass with it. Just think, we are the best that America has to offer.
Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam
Annenberg Center
3680 Walnut Street
8 p.m., $8 with Penn ID/ $10 with other college ID/ $20 public
(215) 898-3900
When I was little I would stay up late at night and watch Def Comedy Jam while my parents thought I was sleeping. Being 10, Asian and an AYSO goalie, I probably didn't understand a single joke or reference being told. But damn, it was always a good time. Following the success of Dave Chappelle's weed-infused bit, the Def Comedy Jam is bringing more comedians to our lovely little campus. Bring it on.
Curt Kirkwood and Bill Janovitz
North Star Bar
27th and Poplar streets
10 p.m., $12, 21+
(215) 922-LIVE
Curt Kirkwood and Bill Janovitz are those types of names that only ring a bell if you were truly cool eight years ago and began developing your own musical tastes while everyone else listened to whatever everyone else was listening to. Kirkwood, of Meat Puppets fame, and Janovitz, of Buffalo Tom, are bringing their moodylicious alt-rock stylings to the skylighted bar that is the North Star. A smaller venue with an intimate setting, crack open a Yuengling and enjoy.
