Hair News

A few years back, when I was earning my money as a music writer for this newspaper, I received a package in the mail promoting an unusual product.

Christopher Trela is president of ArtsPR. Send your Anaheim Hills news to tcisneros@ocregister.com. The Anaheim Hills theater receives six 2009 Ovation Award nominations from the Los Angeles Stage Alliance.

The giant monster Geharha faces off with mankind's new superweapon in GEHARHA: THE DARK AND LONG HAIR MONSTER.

Reviving the peace-loving, beat- nik counter-culture of the - 60s, 7 Stages in Little 5 Points is now offering audiences a step back in time but a snazzy step forward in wardrobe.

The director of the 12th Annual Polish Film Festival, Zbigniew Wojciechowski, spoke with Hair Balls about the ever-growing event, including the festival's beginnings, the current state of Polish cinema, and how he selected this year's closing film, Mala Moskwa by director Waldemar Krzystek.

It sounds like a bubbling brook, it looks like sunlight filtered through green leaves, and it smells like fresh air after a spring rain.

Lots of shows this weekend, if you need a palate cleanser after Hump!. The Beggar's Opera , co-written by occasional Mercury freelancer Stephen Marc Beaudoin, reworks the 18th-century opera of the same name, shifting the setting and the satirical focus to Portland, circa now.

The weekend theme was best-tressed, from Friday afternoon's advance screening of Chris Rock 's "Good Hair," in which women subject themselves to all sorts of torture in pursuit of idealized manes, to Sunday afternoon's San Francisco Opera performance, in which Salome, fondling the blood-drenched locks of John the Baptist, has the last laugh.

The current revival of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, playing at the Al Hirschfield theatre on Broadway, is two and a half hours of hippie nostalgia that takes the audience through the powerful emotions of love, freedom and peace that young people sought in the United States during the Vietnam War.

BROADWAY IMPACT Broadway Impact is a grassroots organization of the Theatre community and its fans, mobilizing in support of marriage equality.

Will Swenson as Berger and the cast of the Broadway revival of HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical directed by Diane Paulus and choreographed by Karole Armitage at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

College of the Canyons' theater and music departments will host "Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical," beginning October 16, at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons.

This summer, a D.C. Superior Court judge ruled that ex-gays ought to be protected under the D.C. Human Rights Act's sexual orientation clause, alongside heterosexuals, bisexuals, and gays.

Burning Coal Theatre @ Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School Through Sept. 27 Ever since we entered the actual Age of Aquarius in December 2007 , the 42-year-old Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical , with its celebrated opening anthem, has been revived frequently, perhaps in order to revive our spirits in the absence of peace, which is ...

TUNE UP: Berger , Claude , Hud and Sheila Hair Through Oct. 10. $17.50-$30. Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 5 p.m. . 7 Stages, 1105 Euclid Ave.

Is it the biggest and best fall arts and entertainment season ever? Maybe, many things considered.

Aranda Hotel tenant Paul Lentz explains to the Planning Commission how his SRO would be sandwiched between two liquor stores.

Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh, NC will present Ragni, Rado and McDermott's Hair September 10 27, 2009 at Meymandi Theatre at the Murphey School, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh.

A Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park presentation of a play in one act by Euripides, in a translation by Nicholas Rudall.

Age: 27 Hometown: New York City. "I was born and raised right here in Harlem." Currently: Making her Broadway debut singing the opening verse of "Aquarius," then rocking out in "White Boys" as Dionne in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Hair .