Original Scripts Sought for Young Playwrights Contest

The Play’s the Thing: California residents under the age of 19 with a flair for the dramatic are invited to enter the 10th Annual California Young Playwrights Contest. The plays will be evaluated by professionals; winners will be produced by the national Playwrights Project in association with the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.

Scripts must be original and may be on any subject, in any style and form, but length is important: Scripts with fewer than 10 typed, double-spaced pages will not be evaluated.

Submissions should be typed, the pages numbered and bound securely. Include name, address, telephone number and date of birth on the title page and enclose a brief cover letter with some personal background and an explanation of how the play came to be. Scripts will not be returned, so send a copy and keep the original.

Evaluations will be sent out by November 1994; entries must be postmarked no later than April 1, 1994. Send to: Playwrights Project, 1450 Frazee Road, Suite 215, San Diego, Calif., 92108.

Information: (619) 298-9242.

Holiday Odyssey: Through songs and stories, Imagination Company will present an interactive theater celebration of winter celebrations in “A Season of Lights,” Sunday through Dec. 30 at noon and 2 p.m. in the Los Angeles Children’s Museum’s Louis B. Mayer Theatre.

Holidays spotlighted included the Chinese New Year, Hanukkah, Kwanza and a traditional Mexican Christmas. Free with regular museum admission: $5 per person; under age 2, free.

Information: (213) 687-8800.

Oshogatsu Fest: The East West Players will present “Asian Pacific Tales,” children’s theater stories from Japan, Hawaii and Southeast Asia, on Jan. 9 at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the Japan America Theatre as part of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center’s Oshogatsu Festival, a Japanese New Year celebration.

Other family events that day include exhibitions of Zen archery, flower arrangement, calligraphy and hands-on children’s activities at 12:30 p.m. and taiko , a Japanese American drum concert, at 2:30 p.m.

Children’s theater admission is $7 per adult; $3 per child.

Information: (213) 628-2725.