
Matt Johnson directs Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) as a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain thrown into the chaos of a Provincetown restaurant kitchen for the summer that shaped everything after: before the books, before the television years, the origin of the cook who taught a generation how to eat and pay attention. The theatre’s own billing says it best: nobody did it like him. Rated R, 1 hour 41 minutes. A kitchen coming-of-age story lands a little differently in a town where the fish comes off the boats a few blocks from the theater, and the matinee walks you out into a waterfront full of working kitchens just starting service.
Where: Bay Theatre, 464 Morro Bay Blvd, Morro Bay
When: September 25 through 30; Friday, Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at 4:30 PM; Sunday, September 27 at 1:30 and 4:00 PM; dark Monday, September 28
Cost: $10
An afternoon with young Bourdain earns the dinner that follows; the rest of the week’s plans are on the Morro Bay events calendar.