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B-12 Friday, Augmt 18, 1995 SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER C-12 Frily, Aupi.1 18. 1995 Tuesdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m Wednesdays and Saturdays, 2 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. Through Dec. 3. Top ticket $65.

Curran Theatre, 445 Geary St Flamenco Ole, with guest dancer La Tanla, singer Antonio de Jerez and guitarist Gulllermo Rios. Saturday, 8 p.m. $10 to $15. Montgomery Theater, Market and San Canos streets, San Jose (408-971-8468). THE SHRI KRUPA DANCE FOUNDATION: "Peace Eternal." Sunday, 3 p.m.

$10 to $15. Montgomery Theater, Market and San Carlos streets, San Jose (408-227-3802). and marry the beautiful Guinevere (Julia Or-mand). She falls for Itinerant swordsman Lancelot (Richard Gere), setting up a difficult triangle in this retelling of the Arthurian legend. Ben Cross Is the renegade knight threatening everyone's happiness.

Jerry Zucker directed William Nicholson's script. (Barbara Shulgasser) THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD Omrl (Hal Scardlno) receives a magic cupboard that turns a plastic Indian figure Into a live, tiny Indian played by Utefoot. His friend turns a cowboy figure to life (David Keith) and adventures ensue. With Lindsay Crouse. Directed by Frank 02.

PG. (Barbara ShulgasMr) JEFFREY Humorist Paul Rudnick's by satellite weapon. R. (Barbara Shulgasser) VIRTUOSITY This cinematically negligible thriller at ut a computer generated criminal mastermind, Sid 6.7 (Russell Crowe), who breaks free into physical reality to terrorize the populace is marred by tired action sequences and dull plotting Denzel Washington, as an L.A. cop as signed to hunt down Sid, 's the movie real not so-socret weapon.

R. (Scott Rosenberg) A WALK IN THE CLOUDS Keanu Reeves plays a gallant young man who agrees to pose as a pregnant girl's husband to save her from her winemaker father's wrath. With Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Anthony Qulnn and Glancarlo Glannlnl. Alfonso Arau directs. PG-13.

(Barbara Shulgasser) WATERWORLD This Is not so much a movie about a future when the polar Ice cap melts and covers the Earth with water as It Is about producer and actor Kevin Costner's ego. He plays a sour fellow with gills who saves Jeanne Tripplehom and 9-year-old Tina Majorino from bad guys. Kevin Reynolds Is the nominal director, but Cost-ner fired him and took over. PG-13. Barbara Shulgasser) WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING Bill Pullman falls for Sandra Bullock, who he thinks Is his brother Peter Gallagher's fiancee.

But Peter's In a coma so he can't tell anyone that he doesn't even know Cjpheater All plays have been reviewed by Examiner critic Robert Hurwitt, except where noted. Indicates a production of special merit. ALL GROWN UP AND NO PLACE TO GO: By Rick Reynolds. In the sequel to his 1990 solo hit, "Only the Truth Is Funny," Reynolds is still spinning comedy from his personal traumas, this time the near breakup of the marriage that was his refuge In the last piece. A master stand-up comic, often very funny, Reynolds' repetitious phrasing, retro '50s battle of the sexes humor and blatant sentimentality get a bit wearing over the course of 95 minutes.

Tuesdays through Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 7 and 9:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Sept. 3. Top ticket $26. Stage Door Theatre, 420 Mason St.

run. Cable Car Theatre 430 Mason St. (415-956-TIXS). RINSE AND REPEAT: By the Pros From Dover. Sundays 8 pm.

Open-ended run. Cable Car Theater 430 Mason St (415-956-TIXS). ROSA'S TURN: By Billy De Herrera. Fridays, 10 p.m. Through next Friday.

Josie's Cabaret and Juice Joint, 3583 16th St. (415-861-7933). ROUGE LACE (PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN WOMEN): By Robert Perring. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. Clos- es Sunday.

White Light Productions at New Conservatory Theatre, 25 Van Ness Ave. (4156616972). SHE LOVES ME: By Jerry Bock, Joe Mas-teroff and Sheldon Hamlck. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Through Aug.

27. TheatreWorks at Lucie Stem Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto (415-9036000). SUMMER IMPROV FESTIVAL: Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Aug. 26.

Bay Area Theatresports, Bayfront Theater, Building Fort Mason Center (415-824-8220). TEN MINUTE PLAYS FROM THE ACTORS THEATRE IN LOUISVILLE: Opens Friday. Includes "Confession" by Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller, "Visiting Dad" by Judith Fein, "The Road to Ruin" by Richard Dresser and "4 A.M. (Open All Night) by Bob Krakower, Fridays and Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 5:30 p.m. Through Aug.

27. Magic Theatre, Building Fort Mason Center (408-2936362). TWO ROOMS: By Lee Blessing. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. Closes Saturday.

Ready Room at Phoenix Theatre, 301 Eighth St (4156214423). VAPOR TALES: By Dominic Mah. Thursdays through Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Through Sept. 2.

La Val's Subterranean, 1834 Euclid Berkeley (5105407743). YOU'RE JUST LIKE MY FATHER: By Peggy Shaw. Wednesdays through Sundays, 8 p.m. Through Sept. 3.

Josie's Cabaret and Juice Joint, 3583 16th St. (415661-7933). A f- ovies For complete movie theater listings and show times, see pages C4 and 5. APOLLO 13 Ron Howard's patriotic recounting of the plagued 1970 flight of Apollo 13 reminds us of a time when America still worked. Tom Hanks plays the gallant everyman Jim Lovell, commander of the aborted moon mission, showing grace under pressure In the attempt to fly his craft safely back to Earth.

With Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Slnlse and Ed Harris. PG-13. (Barbara Shulgasser) BABE Crproduced and cc-wrltten by none other than George "Mad Max Miller, this film is more than Just another summer porker It's the best pig movie of the year, so far, one that can be enjoyed by all ages and that Insults no one's Intelligence. The farm critters talk, to be sure, but with enough drollery to keep adults amused throughout. Babe is a naive piglet who just wants to fit In.

Fly the sheepdog takes him under her wing and helps him learn the strict hierarchy of the farm, which he succeeds by Ignoring. G. (Walter V.Addlego) BATMAN FOREVER Val Kilmer Is the Caped Crusader, but he hasn't got a chance with scene stealer Jim Carrey as an amusing Riddler. Even Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face fades Into the wallpaper. Director Joel Schumacher lightened up the darkness of Tim Burton's earlier two movies, but It's still pretty routine.

With Nicole Kidman. PG-13. (Barbara Shulgasser) BELLE DE JOUR A long-awaited re-release of Luis Bunuel's fabulous tale of a beautiful young wife (Catherine Deneuve at her peak) who can't respond sexually to her handsome husband and finds her kicks as a high-class prostitute. With Michel Pkxoll. PG-13.

(Barbara Shulgasser) THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY Clint Eastwood plays the photographer who falls for Iowa housewife Meryl Streep, who sends him on his way to preserve her family. Adapted by Richard La-Gravenese from the Robert James Waller bestseller. Eastwood directed. PG-13. (Ba bara Shulgasser) THE BROTHERS MCMULLEN Writer-director-actor Edward Bums' first film won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

A witty comedy about three Irish Catholic brothers trying to understand the na ture of love. R. (Barbara Shulgasser) CASPER Steven Spielberg executive-produced this sappy combination live-ao-tionanlmated comedy about the friendly ghost character from Harvey Comics. Bill Pullman stars as a ghost shrink hired by Cathy Morlarty, a nasty heiress who Inherited a mansion haunted by Casper and his less friendly uncles. A lot of returning from the dead and other silliness.

With Christina Riccl. PG. (Barbara Shulgasser) 1 The Black Filmmakers Tuskegee Airmen" Nguyen Donohue dances "When You're Old Enough" at Montgomery Theatre in San Jose. RICHARD III: By William Shakespeare. Jari- on Monroe thinks on his feet and makes evil perversely attractive as the conniving duke who murders his way to the throne, but Ken Grantham's almost three-hour production tries to push the horror elements beyond the point of diminishing returns.

Few others In the large cast have the Shakespearean chops to do justice to their roles. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. Closes Saturday. Top tick et $17. Marin Shakespeare Festival, Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, Dominican College, San Rafael (415-456-8104).

Also Running AFRO SOLO: San Francisco's African Ameri can Solo Performance Festival. Opens Thursday. "The Middle Passage" with Elizabeth Summers; "Once We Got Here" with Robert Henry Johnson; "Still Headin' fo' da' Promise Land" with Thomas R. Simpson; "The Adventures of Art Girl: Insane In San Francisco" with Dee Dee Russell. Thursday, 8 p.m.

Through Aug. 27. New Performance Gallery, 3153 17th St. (415-346-9344). ALWAYS PATSY CUNE: By Ted Swlnd- ley.

Wednesdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; bundays, 2 p.m. Through Aug. 27. San Jose Stage Compa- ny, The Stage, 4905. First San Jose AMERICA'S By Rodgers, Hart and Herbert Fields.

Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 3 and 7 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. Closes Sunday. 42nd Street Moon at New Conservatory Theatre, 25 Van Ness Ave. BAY AREA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL 18: San Francisco Improv Competition, Fridays, 8 p.m.; The Big Four Competition, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Bayfront Theater, Building Fort Mason Center (4154416822).

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT: By Philip Real. Saturday and Sunday, 8 p.m. Closes Sunday. Place Pigalle, 520 Hayes St (415-552-2671). BEYOND THERAPY: By Christopher Durang.

Opens Thursday. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m. Cinnabar Cabaret, 450 Geary St. (41569 J0600). THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE: By Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and George Abbott, Tuesdays through Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays 2 and 8 p.m.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival at Presentation Theater, 2350 Turk St. (415-3924400). BROADWAY BABIES: Directed by Melinda Moreno Miller. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m. Closes Sunday.

The Plush Room Cabaret, 940 Sutter St. (415-885-2800or80OPLUSH-95). BROKEN EGGS: By Eduardo Machado. Opens Saturday. Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m.;; Wednesday, 8 p.m.

Through Sept. 9. TheatreWorks at SecondStage, Mountain Views Center, Castro and Mercy streets, Mountain View (415-9036000). CAMILLE IN PERSONA: A PORTRAIT OF PAQUA: By Kathl Georges. Fridays and Saturdays, 9 p.m.

Through Sept. 9. Marilyn Monroe Memorial Theater, 96 Lafayette St (415-552-3034) END OF THE LINE: By Pauline Davies. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Opervended run.

Blue Planet Productions at Cable Car Theatre, 430 Mason HOW TO BECOME AN AMERICAN: By Tony Morewood. Thursdays through Saturdays, 8:30 p.m. Through Aug. 26. The Marsh, 1062 Valencia St.

(415626-5750). MAKING MARY: By Marci Karr and John Kir- 1 1 Ed Alter, Tony Lipjhart and Dan Klein, from left, of Bay Area Theatresports, in Summer Improv Festival man. Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Through Sept. 10.

School House Theater, 2050 Oak Park Pleasant Hill (510944-9006). MAKING PORN: By Ronnie Larsen. Wednesdays through Fridays, 8:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 6 and 9 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Through Sept. 3.

Theatre Rhinoceros, 2926 16th St (415-861-5079). MAKING UP, MAKING OVER AND MAKING DO: By Kell O'Connell. Three one-act plays Including "Murder the Burglar," "The Hanging of the Bridesmaid" and "Tex and Jayne." Friday through Sunday, 8 p.m. Closes Sunday. Climate Theatre, 252 Ninth St (415-978-2345).

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR: By William Shakespeare. Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays 2 p.m. Through Aug. 26. Guerrilla Shakespeare Productions and Theater Artists of Marin at Marin Academy Theater, Fifth and Cottage avenues, San Rafael (415453-2507).

NOIR POINT BLANK: By David Landou. Fridays and Saturdays, seating at 7:30 p.m, for 8 p.m. show. Through February 1996. The Entree to Murder company's dinner show plays on two stages: A.

Sabella's Restaurant, 2766 Taylor and the Sheraton Hotel, 5121 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton (510762-BASS or 415-991-CLUE). QUIZ BANG: Audience participation gay trivia quiz show. Mondays, 8 p.m. Open-ended -A Vi mil I L.P -wmwi ill Hall of Fame presents a at the Grand Lake Theatre adaptation of his own off Broadway hit Is old- scnooi Monywood romance, rapid pacing, stars, sex appeal, punch lines for days, even cute choreography and a touch of tragedy without the bitter aftertaste. It tells the tale of Jeffrey (Steven Weber), a 30-Ish New York actorwaiter fed up with sex until he meets hunky Steve (Michael T.

Weiss), who is HIV positive. There are many Inspired cameos, but the real news Is Patrick Stewart as Jeffrey's witty and tough friend Sterling. R. (Barry Walters) JUDGE DREDD Wearing armor by Gianni Versace and epaulets that look like Oldsmoblle fenders, Sylvester Stallone plays a genetically engineered law enforcer of the nasty future. He fights evil In the form of Armand Assante and Jurgen Prochnow, Danny Cannon directs.

R. (Barbara Shulgasser) KIDS Director Larry Clark gives us the decline of the American teenager. But does he want us to believe that this is how ugly and amoral all kids are or just this specific subset? Drugs, violence and sex. Be warned. Unrated.

(Barbara Shulgasser) UVING IN OBLIVION Yet another Independent film about a bunch of guys with goatees trying to get an Independent film made? Yes, but Tom DICillo's comedy Is also a welkrafted farce, constructed as a sequence of deepening bad dreams, that provides a smart send-up of the trials and Joys of filming on big egos and low budgets. With Steve Busceml, James Le Gros and Catherine Keener. R. (Scott Rosenberg) MY FAMILY Writer-director Gregory Na-va tells the story of a family with roots In Mexico, now settled in East Los An geles, trying to raise a brood that Includes Jimmy Smits as a disaffected ex-con. Also stamng Edward James Olmos and Eduardo Lopez Rojas.

Anna Thomas co-wrote the script. R. (Barbara Shulgasser) NINE MONTHS Hugh Grant drives away nis ginineno, piayed by Juiianne Moore, when he learns she is pregnant, In fear that their perfect yuppie life will change. With Robin Williams as a nutty obstetrician. Chris Columbus Alone wrote and direct ed.

PG-13. (Barbara Shulgasser) A PLACE IN THE WORLD A stirring tale about a young boy's upbringing in rural Argentina, Adolfo Aristarain's unabashedly emotional, mournfully Intelligent film explores the consequences of political ideal-Ism and the possibilities of human nature. Forget "Like Water for Chocolate" this is a far deeper ambassador for Latin cinema. Not rated. (Gary Kamlya) POCAHONTAS Disney goes to pains to treat the Native Americans with polite political correctness in this Broadway musical In the form of a cartoon.

Sticking to the formula of "Beauty and the Beast," 'Aladdin" and "The Little Mermaid," this Is a story of mismatched love, with catchy tunes by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. G. (Barbara snuigasser) THE POSTMAN Massimo Trolsi wanted to turn this story of a simple postman who befriends the exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda for so many years that when he became III during filming, he proceeded anyway. He died Immediately after shooting was completed. Michael Radford directed.

PG. (Barbara Shulgasser) PULP FICTION Quentln Tarantlno's follow-up to "Reservoir Dogs" is a rangy gutter epic, a tapestry of petty crime, drug abuse, sadism and gunplay. An exceptional cast Including John Travolta, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman weaves In and out of three interconnected tales. But Tarantino's style and obsessions are already beginning to calcify. R.

(Scott Rosenberg) SMOKE San Francisco director Wayne Wang's best movie by far. The cast is superb: William Hurt, Harvey Keltel, Harold Perrlneau and Stockard Channing, and the writer is the wonderful novelist Paul Auster, whose script Is about a writer named Paul. R. (Barbara Shulgasser) SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT Julia Roberts plays a young Southern wife and mother who one day spies her husband (Dennis Quaid) cheating and decides to take control of her life. As light comedy, the movie has some effective moments, but marriage crises rarely fall into the neat set-pieces that writer Callie Khourie builds her story around.

R. (Scott Rosenberg) SPECIES Ben Kingsley heads a government project that has created a monster (the angelic Natasha Henstridge) out of combined alien and human DNA. But when she escapes and displays homicidal ten dencies, Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker and Alfred Molina go chasing after her. Roger Donaldson directed Dennis Feld-man's script. R.

(Barbara Shulgasser) UNDER SIEGE 2: DARK TERRITORY The secret to making a good Steven Seagal movie is to gag him, as director Geoff Murphy figured out. This time, Seagal plays Casey Ryback, who uses his training as a Navy Seal to thwart evil genius Eric Bo- gosian, who has taken over a passenger train while he tries to wipe out the Pentagon the girl. In the meantime, his family has come to adore her. Jon Turteltaub directed. PG.

(Barbara Shulgasser) WILD REEDS A remarkably subtle and sensitive exploration of four teenagers' coming of age In provincial France at the end of the Algerian War. Superb performances by the young cast, especially Elodie Bouchez. Not rated, (Gary Kamlya) Film and Video Programs Also Running BLACK FILMMAKERS HALL OF FAME: Sunday "The Tuskegee Airmen." Grand Lake Theatre, fc Grand Oakland. Special brunch and showing will be attended by Bob Williams, co-executive producer; Paris Qualles, writer; and Robert Markowitz, di rector. Sunday, 1 p.m.

Lakevlew Club, Kaiser Building, 300 Lakevlew Drive, Oakland (5104650804). PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE: Friday "Five" brunch and screening of "The in Oakland Sunday. and "Panic in Year Zerol Saturday "The Amulet of Ogum" and "Tent of Miracles'; Sunday "Go West" with short films Including "The Paleface," "The Blacksmith," "The Balloonatic." University Art Museum, 2625 Durant Berkeley (510642-5249). RED VIC: Friday and Saturday "Tank Sunday and Monday "Muriel's Wedding." 727 Haight St. (415668-3994).

ROXIE: Through Thursday "My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud." 3117 16th St. (415-863-1087). U.C. THEATRE: Through Thursday "Satyajit Ray" and "Pather Panchali." 2036 University Berkeley (5108436267). ance MAURA NGUYEN DONOHUE WITH CLUB O'NOODLES: An evening of dance, comedy and drama featuring Donahue in "When You're Old Enough," and Club O'Noodles in "Laughter From the Children of War." Friday, 8 p.m.

$10 to $15. Montgomeiy Street Theatre, Market and San Carlos streets, San Jose (408-246-1160). AUCE ARTS THEATER: "Dancing Up a Storm," an all-youth performing arts festival. Dance Brigade's Art for Our Sake Youth Troupe presents the Contemporary Music and Dance Ensemble from the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts. The performance will bring together youth performing arts groups from around the Bay Area.

Saturday, 7:30 p.m. $8 general; $6 children under age 16. 1428 Alice Oakland (510-652-0752). "GROWING UP A multidiscl-pline, site-specific performance that addresses Oakland's downtown Gateway neighborhood and its relationship to the historic Pardee home through dance, pantomime, music and storytelling. A collaboration between The Pardee Home Museum and the Augustino Dance Theater.

Saturday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. $10 general; $7 seniors and students. Pardee Carriage House, 672 11th Oakland (510444-2187, ext. 206). "ALEGRIA DE Theatre Flamenco presents a program of neoclassic, regional and flamenco dances.

Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. $18 general; $15 seniors and students. Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center (415-3924400). JOSE GRECO AND COMPANY: Legendary Spanish dancer Jose Greco and his company in a program of flamenco and Spanish dance. Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 3 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 and 7 p.m.

Closes Sunday. $30 to $35. Marines' Memorial Theatre, 609 Sutter St. (415-7716900). DANCERS' GROUPFOOTWORK: "Lysistra-ta Dance Project." This experimental evening-length work combines Greek text, movement, singing and theater to tell an eclectic version of the Aristophanes comedy.

Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. Closes Aug. 26. $10. 3221 22nd St.

(415-824-5044). THE FLAMENCO SOCIETY OF SAN JOSE: Maura f. 1 opular Music Headliners LOLLAPALOOZA '95: Featuring Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, Elastica, Pavement, Beck, the Jesus Lizard and Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Friday, 2 p.m. $33.

Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View (415-9674040 or 510762-BASS). PETER, PAUL AND MARY: Friday, 8 p.m. $12.50 to $25 general; $5 children on the lawn. Concord Pavilion (510671-3100 or 510-762-BASS). LYLE LOVETT AND HIS LARGE BAND, SHAWN COLVIN: Friday, 8 p.m.

$22.50 to db.OO. Greek Theatre (510642-0527 or 510762-BASS). SUMMIT CONFERENCE: Featuring Reggie Workman, acoustic bass; Sam Rivers, saxo phones and flute; Andrew Hill, piano: Julian Priester, trombone; Phreeroan akLaff, drums. Through Sunday, 8 and 10 p.m. $15 to $18.

Yoshl's, 6030 Claremont Oak land (510652-9200). ENIT FESTIVAL: Presented by Lollaoalooza. featuring Moby, Keoki and others 'riday, 9 p.m. u. i ne wartieid.

982 Market St (510762-BASS). SPYRO GYRA: Friday, 9 p.m. $7 to $20. Sllm's, 333 11th St. (415621-3330 or 510762-BASS).

SUN RA ARKESTRA: Featunng Johr tmmore, Marshall Allen, James Jackson. Ty rone Hill, John Ore, Ahmed Abdullah, Bruce towards, Craig Haynes, Michael Ray and Eddie Gale. Through Sunday. 8 and 10 n.m. $15 to $18.

Kimball's East, 5800 Shell-mound Emeryville (510658-2555 or 510762-BASS). AU FARKA TOURE, Turtle Island String Quartet: Saturday, 9 p.m. $20. The Fillmore, lBua lieary Blvd. (415-3466000).

BALLS UNDER THE RED The first live performance In the United States bv famed Chinese rock musician Cui Jian, for mer Beijing Symphony Orchestra trumpet player. Saturday, 7 p.m. $10. Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center (415-259- 9810). JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL: With Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, Buddy Guy, Bobby Cald well, Norman Brown and Tom Scott.

Saturday, 2 p.m. $22.50 to $27.50. Concord Pavilion (510671-3100 or 510-762-BASS). JAZZ IN THE PARK: THE SAN FRANCISCO TRADITIONAL JAZZ CELEBRATION: Featuring New Orleans Zenith Parade Band, John Gill and the Dixieland Serenaders. Boh ocnuiz ana tne rrisco Jazz Band, Paris Washboard, Rex Allen's Vintage Jazz All-stars, The South Frisco Jazz Band and Bo Grumpus.

Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Free. To-dos Santos Plaza, Concord (51067-MU-SIC). RINGO STARR AND HIS THIRD ALL STARR BAND: With Randy Bachman, Felix Cava-liere, Mark Famer, Zak Starkey, Mark Rivera and John Entwlstle. Sunday, 7:30 p.m.

$15 to $25. Concord Pavilion (510671-3100 or 510762-BASS). WEEZER, TEENAGE FANCLUB, THAT DOG: Sunday, 8 p.m. $16.50. The Warfield, 982 Market St.

(510762-BASS). San Francisco BIMBO'S: Friday, "Hot August Night," with Super Diamond. 1025 Columbus Ave. (415-474-3606). BLACKTHORN TAVERN: Friday, DJ Eurotech with BooBoo; Saturday, Tir Na Nog; Sunday, Owen Conway.

834 Irving St (415-564-6627). BOTTOM OFTHE HILL: Friday, Engine 88, Van Gogh's Daughter; Saturday afternoon, Peter Jefferies, Mecca Normal; Saturday night, 68 Comeback, Fireworks, Cheater-slicks; Sunday, Refrigerator, the Rula Lenska. 1233 17th St. (4156264455). CAFE DU NORD: Friday, the Swinging Johnsons, Big Sandy and His Fly Rite Boys; Saturday, Lavay Smith and the Red Hot Skillet Lickers; Sunday, Mr.

Nobody. 2170 Market St. (415-861-5016). CLUB 181: Saturday, Soul Messengers. 181 Eddy St.

(4156736181). COCONUT GROVE: Friday evening, the New Morty Show featuring Connie Champagne and Vice Grip; Friday night Juan Escovedo (415433-9500, 510762-BASS). AS YOU LIKE IT: By William Shakespeare. Dan Chumley's Kathakali version attempts to wed the verbal delights of the comedy of Kosanno in tne Forest of Arden to highly nonverbal Indian performance traditions. There are many visual delights, but the fine work of leads Stacy Ross, Lelth Burke and June Lome-na is almost overwhelmed by the heavy stylization, uneven support and poor miking.

Saturdays and Sundays, 3 p.m. Through Aug. 27. Free Shakespeare In the Park, Oakland-East Bay Shakespeare Fest, Central Park, next to the San Ramon Community Center, 12501 Alcosta San Ramon. (415666-2221).

BEACH BLANKET BABYLON: By Steve Silver. The nation's longest-running musical revue, this Is an effervescent extravaganza of silly sendups, outrageous puns and one show-stopping musical number after another performed by a first-rate, beautifully drilled ensemble. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 7 and 10 p.m.; Sundays, 3 and 7 p.m. Opervended run. Top ticket $40.

Club Fugazl, 678 Green St. (4154214222). COAST CITY CONFIDENTIAL Bv Joan Holden. Sharp, fast-paced political musical comedy al fresco, in the standard Mime Troupe mold, this is a tale of liberals splitting the left vote In a mayoral race, the awakening of a trend-chasing alternative weekly editor and a proposed tax on downtown businesses. More Frisco-centric and a bit less provocative than the company's best work, It's still a highly charged and expertly performed hour of outdoor entertainment.

Friday through Sunday, L.A.T.C., Los Angeles. In various Bay Area parks through Sept. 4. San Francisco Mime Troupe (415-285-1717). FOREVER TANGO: THE ETERNAL DANCE: Call it grandson of "Tango Argentine" This latest survey of the most sensuous of ballroom dance forms, a pale facsimile of its predecessor, attains dance heaven only when its 12 soigne performers slip, slide and bump thighs.

These dozen demonic performers attest to the enduring political in correctness of social dance and they are a wonder. Alas, director Luis Bravo doesn't build his production to much of a climax, and all the instrumental and vocal interludes seem like padding. The amplification (in a 750-seat house) is deplorable. Pull the plug, save the show. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Fridays, 8:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 3 and 8:30 p.m.; Sundays, 3 and 7:30 p.m.

1 Through Sept. 24. Top ticket $40. Theatre on the Square, 450 Post St. (415-433-9500 or 510762-BASS).

(Allan Ulrlch) HENRY IV, PART ONE: By William Shakespeare. Stephen Hollls, In his West Coast directorial debut, makes some odd choices that don't quite pay off, but this is a solid, compelling account of the ever-popular play of generational conflict and image manipulation. Joe Vincent's roguish Falstaff, Don Burroughs' moody Hal and Martin Kildare's powerhouse Hotspur head up a strong cast. Warm dress advised. Tuesdays through Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 4 p.m.

Through Sept. 10. Top ticket $30. California Shakespeare Festival, Bruns Amphitheatre, Orinda (510548-9666). METEOR GIRL By Katy Hickman.

Three short character sketches of semi-functional women in a less than functional world, Hickman's solo show streaks across the evening with warm, fresh humor. Her overeager job-seeker in a life-or-death interview, nerdy teen on the cusp of womanhood and romance-scarred sex education teacher are sharp, original and engaging creations. Friday and Saturday, 8:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Closes Aug. 20.

Top ticket $17. Encore Theatre, 450 Geary Studio Theatre, 450 Geary St. (415-346-7671). THE PHANTOM OFTHE OPERA: By Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart and Richard Stil-goe. The story is banal.

The music, with its clever opera parodies, is Lloyd Webber's best, lush if repetitive and betrayed by stodgy lyrics. Except for Lisa Vroman's vibrant Christine, the central love triangle (with Franc D'Ambrosio's Phantom and Ray mond Saar's Raoul) Is better sung than acted, leaving Harold Prince's spectacular production and Maria Bjomson's lavish designs looking like great wrapping for an empty box. I 1 A tiki clueless A not-very-funny teen come dy about an airhead Beverly Hills girl who tries to give everyone around her a makeover. Amy Heckerling Fast Times at Ridgemont generates a few chuckles, but her script falls awkwardly between blatant satire and mawkish "young adult" formula. PG-13.

(Gary Kamlya) CONGO Laura Llnney plays Karen Ross, a former CIA agent, now In communications technology, who is sent to remote Africa to find out what happened to the expedition her company dispatched to locate a long-lost diamond mine. Joe Don Baker, Dylan Walsh and Tim Curry co-star. Frank Marshall directed a silly scnpt by John Patrick Shan-' ley based on Michael Crichton's book. PG-13. (Barbara Shulgasser) COUNTRY UFE Greta Scacchi and Sam Nelll star In Michael Blakemore's wan adaptation to the Australian outback of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya." Director Blake-more also plays the in-law returned from 25 years as a bon vivant In London to stir up family turmoil.

PG-13. (Barbara Shulgasser). CRIMSON TIDE It's almost Impossible to mess up the finger-on-the-nuclear-trig-ger plot (there's Just something Inherently dramatic about the prospect of imminent global doom), and this slick, solid submarine thriller doesn't. Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman deliver good performances as commanders locked in conflict below the sea, the battle sequences are gripping, and even though the ending is as easy to spot as an Incoming torpedo, this movie by the makers of "Top Gun" delivers plenty of suspense. PG.

(Gary Kamlya) CRUMB Terry Zwlgoff's film about the counterculture comic-book artist Robert Crumb and his troubled family may be a documentary, but ft has the casual, terrifying clarity of myth. As It reveals layer upon layer of tragedy in Crumb's life, and explores the levels of disgust and self-critical angst In his deliberately transgressive art, the film displays a keen eye, a playful sense of timing and an inquisitive soul. R. (Scott Rosenberg) DANGEROUS MINDS If you've seen "Stand and Deliver," "Lean on Me" and "To Sir With Love," you've seen better versions of this story about a teacher who inspires Inner city kids to study. With Michelle Pfeiffer and a cast of talented young unknowns.

John N. Smith directed. R. (Barbara Shulgasser) DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE Bruce Willis is Det. McClane in the third of this series.

A mad bomber (Jeremy Irons) has it in for McClane and drives New York City nuts with phone threats of bombs all over town. Director of the first "D.H.," John McTieman, returns for this episode. It's heavy on the violence. R. (Barbara Shulgasser) DOUBLE HAPPINESS Mina Shum directs her first movie, a comedy about a young Hong Kong-bom American Chinese actress (Sandra Oh) who tries to balance her desires to live the life of a modern West-em career woman and her duties to her traditional parents.

PG-13. (Barbara Shulgasser) FIRST KNIGHT Sean Connery is an aging Arthur ready to hang up his armour.