Lost in Yonkers opens tonight at The Cannery Stage in Penticton.
This amusing Neil Simon play will be on stage at 8 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays until Feb. 25.
Tickets at the Wine Country Visitors’ Centre Railway and Eckhardt.
Lost in Yonkers is the story of Jay and Arty who are forced by family financial circumstances to live with their tyrannical grandmother in her emotionally dysfunctional household at the beginning of World War II.
The licensed Opus Bistro Café (right next to the Cannery Stage) will be open for every show with a tempting menu of dinner options.
Film Club
The Summerland Film Club will be presenting Full Signal, a commentary on the problems that some feel have been created as a result of the explosion of cell phones and other devices that require the construction of microwave towers everywhere, on Wednesday, Feb. 1 in the Rosedale Room at the Summerland Legion. A discussion will follow.
Check the website at www.summerlandfilms.ca to see what’s coming up next.
Kitchen Stove Series
Film series
Monsieur Lazhar is the next in the Spring Kitchen Stove Film Series.
It will be shown at the Pen Mar Theatre on Thursday, Feb. 16 at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.
My Week with Marilyn will be shown March 8, A Separation on March 29 and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen on April 19.
Series tickets are available at the Penticton Art Gallery, 199 Marina Way, 250-493-2928 and The Book Shop, 242 Main Street, 250-492-6661.
Phantom
Tickets are on sale now at the Summerland Secondary School office and the Beanery for Phantom of the Opera which will be at Centre Stage Theatre Feb. 15 to 18 and Feb. 22 to 25 at 7 p.m.
Art exhibits
The Sandbridge Painters have a show at Leir House until Jan. 31. This winter show by Kit Tate, David Abernathy, Elaine Ryan, Colin Matheson, Marlene Quaggan, Sheila Cater and Angie Roth McIntosh will feature seascapes, winter scenes, vineyards and florals to landscapes.
The Kelowna Art Gallery has a show of Lake Country-based artist David Alexander who works in a modern landscape.
If you know of an event you feel should be included in the Arts Palette or on the Arts Council’s online calendar, e-mail dfinnis@telus.net or call 250-494-4994. summerlandarts.com and twitter.com/artspalette.
David Finnis is a member of the Summerland Arts Council.