On the Boards Celebrates Friday, Upcoming Shows, etc.

A couple interesting news bits from On the Boards. First up, the next show in their Inter/National Series, the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma's No Dice, finally has a location. As we mentioned a couple weeks ago, the performance is taking place at an off-site venue. No Dice is about as strange a piece of theatre as you can come by: 100 hours of transcribed phone calls crammed into a four-hour dinner theatre production. And where will you be eating your sack lunch dinner? A deserted office suit on the fifth floor of the building at 1100 Eastlake Ave. E. (Parking is available in or near the building, apparently.) For those interested, the only night not yet sold out is Sunday, March 8. Performances start at 7 p.m., and with a half-hour break, should end around 11:30.

The next show at OtB following Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, and one that's almost assuredly going to be as popular, is Theatre Replacement (Vancouver, B.C.) with their production of Tim Etchells' That Night Follows Day. Billed as "a play for adults performed by children," Etchells, a British artist who collaborates on performance work with Forced Entertainment in Sheffield, really is just that: 14 children performing a play about how their world is constructed by exercises in adult power. A word of warning: It's also billed as a show not for children. It plays for two days only, March 20 & 21; $18.

All of which is pretty exciting stuff for OtB, which is in the midst of an extremely successful season. If you're interested in hobnobbing with the people from OtB, as well as supporting their mission, your chance is this Friday with "Intermission Impossible," celebrating their thirtieth anniversary. Happy hour starts at 7 p.m. with a screening of the cult-classic Shredder Orpheus (see above for trailer); at 8, a cabaret featuring performers as diverse as Degenerate Art Ensemble and Waxie Moon; and at 9, they break out the karaoke machine. Tickets are $15; it's a 21 and over event.