Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview up-and-coming arts events to mark your calendar for. Today's edition is a fundraising theater event at American Stage.
The Suncoast AIDS Theatre Project presents Die, Mommie, Die, next week's installment in the The Summer Nights of Alternative Theater Series. The show benefits the Metropolitan Charities, providing services to locals living with HIV and AIDS. The show is a campy, comedic melodrama that borrows from 1960s thriller flicks. It follows Angela (played by Matt McGee), who poisons her husband via suppository. Angela's vengeful daughter convinces her brother to kill their mother. When Angela drinks the LSD-laced coffee he gives her, all of her dark secrets come tumbling out. (Pictured: Joey Panek, Matt McGee and Joey Panek in Die, Mommie, Die) Visit americanstage.org for more info. Aug. 17 and 24, Mon., 7:30 p.m., American Stage, 163 Third St. N., St. Petersburg, all shows are "pay what you can" admission.
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2009.