Arts And Entertainment

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 -more-

I’m dying! Bring in the gravediggers. Let the mourners come.” On a set out of a Gothic fairytale (designed by Kim A. Tolman)—a crypt with a crazy rose window above, a hovering eye and the Mona Lisa with her face half covered by a hand as she gazes out over the audience, a chessboard below as flooring—Saul Strange (David Usner, himself a skydiver) writhes on his seeming deathbed, rigged with parachute lines, in an upbeat final agony, attended by his family with painted faces (and occasionally a fantastic creature, a kind of celestial butoh drag queen, played by Kinji Hayashi). -more-

Time is running out to see a superb and fascinating photography exhibit at San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art. -more-

TUESDAY, AUGUST 28 -more-

‘VIATICUM’ AT LIVE OAK -more-

By RICHARD BRENNEMAN -more-

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor -more-