Marsh Youth Theater, a performance training program for kids aged 2-18, brings local celebutante and outsider artist Michael Bernard Loggins’ famed book Fears of Your Life to the stage. Loggins has received extensive praise for his warm and honest writing, even finding his way into donor-gift-tote-bags everywhere via a 2003 appearance on NPR’s relentlessly self-aware and gratingly pleasing This American Life. The apprehensions documented in Loggins’ book are interpreted using a multi of media, including dance, spoken word, music, sculpture, and painting. No doubt the original language (later organized into his second book, Imaginationally: Michael’s Lovable Fun of Dictionaries) and denuded fears lend themselves handily to sweet, hilarious entertainment. His topics, such as safety, allergies, and emotions, open the doors to nerdy humanity. Get there while you can still relate, before the fear-free bliss of Obama Nation sets in.
Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Starts: Jan. 30. Continues through Feb. 7, 2009
