- Thursday, Feb. 17
Hot off the Broadway stage
San Diego Repertory Theatre presents Superior Donuts, a hilarious and soulful new comedy from the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning author of August: Osage County.
Pony-tailed, ex-60s radical Arthur Przybyszewski is the owner of a struggling, run-down donut shop in uptown Chicago. His shop gets vandalized. Arthur is worn out. Is Superior Donuts destined to close its doors forever?
Lyceum Space Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, in San Diego, 8 p.m., tickets from $34, 619-544-1000, sdrep.org.
- Friday, Feb. 18
The hits will just keep coming!
San Diego Symphony presents The Great American Songbook with Jane Monheit.
Monheit, who has emerged as one of the post-millennial jazz world’s foremost vocalists, performs classic masterpieces from the Great American Songbook with her own signature style. And who knows more about this wonderful music than your conductor for this classy evening, Marvin Hamlisch? Classic favorites include, “Moon River” and “Over the Rainbow” to “A Time for Love” and “When You Wish upon a Star.”
Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B Street, in San Diego, 8 p.m., tickets from $20, 619-235-0804, sandiegosymphony.org.
- Saturday, Feb. 19
America’s Big Band Musical Revue
San Diego Theatres present In the Mood. Much more than a concert, this is a retro 1940s musical revue featuring singers and dancers with the sensational String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra.
The music and the arrangements are as authentic as it gets. This was a time that all America was listening and dancing to the same kind of music. In the 1940s, the combination of up-tempo big band instrumentals and intimate, romantic ballads set the mood for a future filled with promise, hope and prosperity.
Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave., in San Diego, 2 p.m., tickets from $24, 619-570-1100, sandiegotheatres.org.
- Sunday, Feb. 20
‘Home Again’ photo exhibition
This outdoor photo exhibit, the second in a series celebrating United Way’s 90th Anniversary, showcases the positive results that come from providing permanent supportive housing as a solution to end chronic homelessness.
It features inspiring portraits and stories of those who were formerly homeless, including military veterans and single moms, who have reclaimed their dignity and rediscovered what it means to be “home again.”
NBC Plaza, 225 Broadway, in San Diego, 7 a.m.-11:59 p.m., Free, 858-492-2000, uwsd.org.
- Monday, Feb. 21
Tribute to the Reggae Legends
Tribute to the Reggae Legends Festival, formerly known as Bob Marley Day, has been an annual event in San Diego for 30 years and has spread from Ensenada to San Francisco and beyond.
The San Diego Tribute to the Reggae Legends Festival always features the biggest and brightest stars from Jamaica, Europe and Africa. Steel Pulse, Third World, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Black Uhuru, Lucky Dube, Alpha Blondy, Yellowman and Shaggy are just some of the artists who have perfomed for Makeda’s tribute to brother Bob Marley.
Valley View Casino Center (San Diego Sports Arena), 3500 Sports Arena Blvd., in San Diego, 2-11 p.m., tickets from $41, tributetothelegends.com.
- Tuesday, Feb. 22
Putting oil paint to canvas
The San Diego Museum of Art presents Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman. In a spectacular array of 12 paintings by Sir Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), this exhibition explores the ways that women, art and fashion came together to contribute to a new sense of women’s roles in society in the mid to late 18th century. Gainsborough was noted in his day as an unparalleled master of brushwork, and his representations of women seem to swirl off the canvas.
San Diego Museum of Art, 1450 El Prado, in Balboa Park, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., tickets $12, 619-232-7931, sdmart.org.
We are not so different
San Diego Museum of Man (SDMoM) presents Race: Are We So Different?, a thought-provoking exhibit on the history, science and experience of race, developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM).
According to the AAA, Race: Are We So Different? is “The first national exhibition to tell the stories of race from the biological, cultural and historical points of view. Combining these perspectives offers an unprecedented look at race and racism in the United States.”
San Diego Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado, in Balboa Park, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., tickets $10, 619-239-2001, museumofman.org.
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