By TimesLedger Staff
A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, a disco legend and the booming Long Island City arts scene are all on the cultural radar this weekend.
At the Black Spectrum Theatre, August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running” will be ending its run. The seventh play in his Pittsburgh Cycle, it looks at changing attitudes toward race from the perspective of urban blacks. Showtimes are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with a final show on Sunday at 4 p.m. The Black Spectrum Theatre is at 177th Street and Baisley Boulevard in Jamaica. Tickets are $25. For more information, call (718) 723-1800 or go to black
Over the past 40 years, KC and the Sunshine Band has racked up seven No. 1 singles, three triple-platinum albums, three Grammy Awards and an American Music Award. If you want to see why, head to the Queensborough Performing Arts Center (222-05 56th Ave., Bayside) Saturday at 8 p.m. That’s when the band is set to play such hits as That’s The Way I Like It, Get Down Tonight, Boogie Shoes, Keep It Comin’ Love, Please Don’t Go, I’m Your Boogie Man, Give It Up, Shake Your Booty and many more. Tickets are $55 and $65. For more information, call (718) 631-6311 or go to visit
Also on Saturday, LIC Arts Open will be presenting its Fall Open Studios, when close to 100 artists will open up their studios. Right after the Fall Open Studios, LIC Arts Open will hold its Fall Ball Fundraiser at 43-01 23rd St., otherwise known as the Murals Building, in honor of the vibrant street art that covers it. The fund-raiser will feature an art show with one piece of art from each of more than 60 artists. In a “Flash Sale,” works of art will be on sale at the bargain price of $25. For Open Studio locations, go to licar
