PROGRAM NOTES

The Centro Cultural de la Raza will present “La Boda” (The Wedding) by the nationally known group Teatro Nuestro, with the musical group Sandunga, at 8 p.m. Aug. 24. In the play, the Sanchez family grapples with a daughter’s pesticide poisoning and her father’s threatened deportation. . . . The National Theatre for Children, which had planned a December performance of “Babes in Toyland” at the now-to-be-demolished California Theatre, has rescheduled for Dec. 13 and 14 at the Spreckels Theatre. It’s part of a 32-city tour running Nov. 10-Dec. 19. Auditions will be held Sept. 16-17 at the Golden Hill Recreation Center. Call 544-1804 for more information. . . . The producers of “The KPUG Talk Radio Murder Mystery” may have a genuine media personality to play the part of the talk-radio host. Contracts have not yet been signed, but it looks as if Larry Mendte, Channel 8’s stand-up comic weatherman, will star beginning Sept. 14 at the new Town and Country Playhouse at the Town and Country Hotel. . . . Spike Sorrentino, the newly named artistic director of the San Diego Junior Theatre, will be on double duty at the Lawrence Welk Resort Theatre soon. He will play Nathan Detroit in the Welk’s upcoming production of “Guys and Dolls”. . . . Holly Hughes, an artist denied a National Endowment for the Arts grant, will perform her elegy for her mother, “World Without End,” at Sushi Performance Gallery on Dec. 6-9 and 12-16. Sushi originally presented the show in a workshop production as part of its Neofest program last May. Sushi is still planning to schedule another of the artists denied grants, Karen Finley, in the spring, managing director Vicki Wolf said.