Shakespeare Benefit for Homeless
Los Angeles writer/producer/director Ben Donenberg is convinced “the play’s the thing” to catch the conscience of the city.
That’s why the man who’s the driving force behind such unorthodox ideas as drive-in plays and “Starship Shakespeare”--which set the Bard’s characters in an outer-space spoof--is producing the second annual Shakespeare Festival’s free alfresco staging of “Two Gentlemen of Verona” while asking patrons to bring non-perishable foods and blankets for the homeless. The gifts will be distributed by the nonprofit organization Love Is Feeding Everyone.
Performances are set for 3 p.m. today and Sunday at the Citicorp Plaza.
Festival organizer Tom Briggs suggests arriving no later than 2:30 p.m. and that attendees bring their own lawn chairs. “We can provide 80 chairs,” Briggs said. The plaza holds 500 people.
The Citicorp Plaza is at the upper level of the 7th Market Place, at 7th and Figueroa streets. Free parking is available in the plaza’s parking structure.
Information: (213) 625-0385.
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