If someone mentions art, slam poetry, fiction writing and live music -- you think of San Francisco, right? Of course you do, unless you're from Berkeley, but that's another story.
However, if you are talking about the first weekend of April 2009, you would be wrong. Pleasanton -- yes, Pleasanton -- hosted its "8th Annual Poetry, Prose & Arts Festival" and you missed a lot of good stuff if you weren't present for those two days.
Word for Word Performing Arts Company has a mission -- to tell great stories with elegant theatricality. It stages performances of fiction, both classical and contemporary.
Currently playing at the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT) in San Francisco is a comedy/drama by William A. Parker, entitled "Waitin' 2 End Hell."