Out & About Entries for October, 2011

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Circle Circle dot dot Gives a Shot to San Diego's Theater Community

Katherine Harroff wants to tell your story. Artistic director of the collaborative, community-based theatre group Circle Circle dot dot, Harroff ...

Of Mice and Men at New Village Arts

"I've never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy," the Boss tells George Milton. "What's your percentage?" ...

Seedy Soiree: Monster Mash Klassy BurlesK at Ruby Room Tonight

The House of Pink BoomBox “Klassy BurlesK” troupe presents Seedy Soiree: Monster Mash tonight at the Ruby Room. The show ...

Cyclocross Comes to San Diego County

Cyclists across San Diego County, at least the more extreme ones, are gearing up for two Cyclocross events in San ...

Cathedral X Lauches Kickstarter Campaign, Chairs Missing Releases 7-inch Vinyl

Cathedral X, a small self-run collaborative studio of sound and performance projects by sound artist and designer Amanda Schoepflin, visual ...

Gozzi versus Goldoni

Lamb's Players is staging a wild, musical version of Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters. The play is, and ...

The Odd Couple at Sullivan Players

Oscar Madison, slob, eats "cold cuts for breakfast." Felix Ungar, control freak, "wears a seatbelt at the drive-in movie." Neil ...

Drama: An Actor's Education, by John Lithgow

When he appeared in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Old Globe a few years back, John Lithgow received a heartfelt ...

Things for Doing - Saturday

You can smell Old Hallow's Eve on the breeze, which means things will only be getting awesomer and awesomer yet ...

Orchestra Nova Classics Season Debuts 10/22 & 10/24

Hoping to jumpstart a new paradigm for presenting classical music, Orchestra Nova San Diego will debut its new Nova Classics ...

Tonight: Free Soundcheck Series Debuts w/Yacht @ Hard Rock Hotel

In 1973, Paul McCartney performed an impromptu concert at the first Hard Rock Café in London, England, establishing the brand’s ...

Louis Spisto to Leave Old Globe

The Old Globe Theatre just announced that its CEO/Executive producer, Louis Spisto, will step down at the end of this ...

Dead Man's Cell Phone at Moxie

Jean never had a cell phone. You have to "be there," she says, constantly on call. She'd rather "disappear," where ...

Closing a Hit Show

Some productions can't end soon enough. Chemistry fizzled, audiences steered clear. When the final curtain comes down, the run doesn't ...

St. Cecilia's Restaurant?

From 1977 to 2005, the Sixth Avenue Playhouse/St. Cecilia's offered some of the most adventuresome, commercially successful theater in San ...

Glynn Bedington: Celebration of a Life

On a Saturday in September, 1984, Paul Bedington went to a series of lectures on the arts. A friend was ...

Occupy San Diego

On Friday, October 7, protestors met at the Park near the Children’s Museum on Island Avenue. There were people everywhere, ...

How the Other Half Loves at Scripps Ranch

Though often compared, Neil Simon and Alan Ayckbourn have little in common. Simon's zinging one-liners urge his audiences to embrace ...

26 Miles at Mo'olelo Performing Arts

For the last eight years, Olivia's Cuban mother, Beatriz, has been denied visitation rights. Olivia has lived with her father, ...

What in the World Is Occupy San Diego and Why Does it Matter?

The following events took place on Monday, October 3, 2011 Night has just fallen over downtown San Diego’s Children’s Park ...

Why Occupy San Diego?

I asked a few people at tonight's Occupy San Diego meeting at Children's Park why they plan to occupy. Here's ...

Urban Day Glo – A Glimpse at the 9th Annual Los Angeles Burning Man Decompression

Festivities were well under way when my companions and I arrived in Chinatown around 3:30 p.m. at the Los Angeles ...

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at San Diego Musical Theatre

The title tips the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical's hand. Combine the biblical tale of Joseph and his brothers with modern ...

Emi Meyer @ Balboa Theatre: Japanese Friendship Garden Benefit Oct. 15

San Diego's Japanese Friendship Garden Society celebrates their annual Aki no Matsuri Festival with an October 15 concert featuring singer/songwriter/pianist ...

Los Angeles Decompression Party Today

After Burning Man sold out at 50,000 tickets this year for the first time since its 1986 inception, many people ...