A grand dame of the Los Angeles performance art and avant theater scene is scheduled to be feted Saturday night, November 7, at "Rachel Rosenthal's Birthday Bash 83."
The fundraising happening will take place at Track 16 Gallery, in Bergamot Station. Ticket information is here.
The ever-conceptual Rosenthal famously retired from the stage a dozen or so years back, but continues to mentor emerging talent. Saturday's 'Bash' is to serve as the coming out for her new troupe, the TOHUBOHU! Extreme Theater Ensemble. (It's pronounced just like it's spelled, we figure.)
Eighty-three mostly L.A.-based visual artists have donated portraits of Rosenthal, which will be auctioned to raise money for TOHUBOHU!, via the umbrella non-profit, Rachel Rosenthal Company. The artworks are by the likes of Mike Kelley, George Herms, two great Saars, Patssi Valdez, and Ed Ruscha.
Also on the bill: Performance by John Fleck, live music, cake, and champagne. Presumably, no meat for the well known vegan and animal activist.
Related: Here's what Steven Leigh Morris, the LA Weekly's theater critic, wrote this week about Rosenthal.
Photo by Annie Liebowitz, courtesy Green Galactic.
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