Off the Strip: Music, Theater, Etc.

Friday, Oct. 30, 1998 | 11:40 a.m.

Musical potpourri: The American Music Festival presents the Grand Music Festival at 8 p.m. today at UNLV's Artemus Ham Hall. A celebration of both Nevada Day and Hawaiian spirit, the program will feature four acts of American patriotic songs, Polynesian music, a pair of dance numbers ("Love Rhapsody" and "Dracula") and American ballads sung by the Nevada Opera Theatre Chorus, accompanied by the 33-piece Festival Orchestra. Tickets are $5-$25; call 895-3801 for information.

Theater

Need directions?: The Off Broadway Theatre presents the comedy "Wrong Turn at Lungfish," written by "Happy Days" producer Gary Marshall and Lowell Ganz, beginning today at 8 p.m, and continuing through Nov. 22. In it's 1993 New York run, the play stared George C. Scott and Tony Danza. Tickets are $12 general admission; $10 for seniors, students and at 2 p.m. Sunday matinees.Call 737-0611 for details.

Hush, please: "Quiet Light," a play about how past violence and present desire disrupts the lives of three people, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. today at the Winchester Community Center, 3130 S. McLeod Drive, as part of The Asylum theater group's "Play Pen Series" of staged readings of new plays. Tickets are $5; call 455-7340 for more information.

Act I: UNLV's annual Fall One Act Play Festival wraps up this weekend. "High Octane" is the terrifying tale of a young couple who stop for gas on their way to Las Vegas and get more than a full tank. "The Bathers of?? High Tide" is a dark comedy set on the eve of the Gulf War; and "Slipping Him the Tongue" follows a reformed non-Shakespeare fan. Tickets for the 8 p.m. performances today and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday are $3. Call the box office at 895-3801.

ETC.

Film series: The City of Las Vegas presents its Israeli Film Series 2 p.m. Sunday at the Charleston Heights Arts Center, 800 S. Brush St. The film, "Anou Banou: The Daughters of Utopia," features six women who recalls their hopes and dreams as socialists, Zionists and feminists in Palestine in the 1920's, as well as their lives 60 years later. The film is directed by Edna Politi, and will feature English subtitles. Tickets are $2; call 229-6383 for more information.

Soup's on: "Chuck Wagon & Trail Cooking" is the topic of the Living History Program's 12-3 p.m. offering Saturday at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park. Talks and demonstrations will feature Dutch oven cooking. "Trail hands" will show how food was prepared by settlers of the Old West. The park is located 15 miles west of Las Vegas via West Charleston Boulevard.

Good sport: Former San Francisco 49er center Jesse Sapolu will sign autographs at 6 p.m. Sunday at Boulder Cinemas at Boulder Station hotel-casino. The $20 autograph fee benefits the Special Olympics.