thursday, feb. 14
Life Could Be A Dream
This doo-wop musical by Roger Bean, is a San Diego Regional Musical Theatre premiere! Return to Springfield High (where The Marvelous Wonderettes matriculated) and meet the Crooning Crabcakes, the boy group banned from the senior prom. The singing foursome is headed for fame and fortune by trying to win the local radio contest on Big Whopper Radio. Songs from this musical journey to the past include “Runaround Sue,” “Tears on My Pillow,” “Earth Angel,” and “The Glory of Love.”
AVO Playhouse, 303 Main Street in Vista, 7:30 p.m., adult tickets $30, 760-724-2110, moonlightstage.com
friday, feb. 15
Electric Sugar featuring the art of Pamela Wilson
Pamela Wilson has built a reputation for works of art that transcend the commonplace to enter the realm of the sublime and otherworldly. She develops haunting images that evoke moods, dreams and memories inspired by real life, and which create a remarkably compelling narrative.
Distinction Gallery, 317 E. Grand Ave. in Escondido, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., free, 760-781-5779, distinctionart.com
saturday, feb. 16
The Son of the Sheik (1926)
A Fox Theater Film Series screening of The Son of the Sheik (1926) accompanied by Russ Peck on the organ. Ahmed, son of Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin (Vilma Banky), a dancing girl who fronts her father’s gang of mountebanks. Ahmed (the great Rudolph Valentino) and Yasmin begin to meet secretly until one night her father and the gang capture and torture the son of the Sheik!
Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B Street in San Diego, 8 p.m., tickets from $20, 619-235-0804, sandiegosymphony.org
sunday, feb. 17
Chicago
In roaring twenties Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap; until he finds out he’s been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another “Merry Murderess” Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the American Dream: fame, fortune and acquittal. This sharp-edged satire features a dazzling score that sparked immortal staging by Bob Fosse.
San Diego Musical Theatre, Birch North Park Theatre, 2891 University Ave. in San Diego, 8 p.m., tickets from $16, 619-239-8836, sdmt.org
monday, feb. 18
Museum Month in San Diego
Museum Month is back for the 24th year in San Diego County. Presented by Macy’s this popular event allows participants to enjoy half-off entry fees at 42 San Diego Museum Council membership museums.
Museum Month Passes may be picked up at any of Macy’s fourteen locations in the San Diego Area, Temecula and Imperial Valley. The passes are free to obtain while supplies last. With a pass, up to four visitors can gain admission to any of the 42 participating museums for half-price. Plus, you can use the pass all month long!
San Diego Museum Month, Feb. 1-28, sandiegomuseumcouncil.org
tuesday, feb. 19
Samson and Delilah
The Bible’s Samson and Delilah returns to the stage in a production described by the North County Times as “… one of the most memorable San Diego Opera productions of the past decade …”
Physically strong though he is, Samson cannot repel the advances of the seductive Delilah. Urged on by the High Priest of Dagon, she makes him reveal the source of his strength, his hair, which she cuts, rendering him powerless. Captured, blinded, Samson calls on God for forgiveness, destroying the temple and all within it, including the treacherous Delilah.
San Diego Opera, Civic Theatre, Third Avenue and B Street in San Diego, 7 p.m., tickets from $45, 619-533-7000, sdopera.com
wednesday, feb. 20
In Search of Shadows : James Hubbell sculpture
Oceanside Museum of Art presents the first museum exhibition devoted to Hubbell’s extensive sculptural oeuvre. Featuring more than 30 sculptures from the past 50 years of his career, In Search of Shadows explores Hubbell’s mastery of a diverse range of media including bronze, wood, glass and stone. It highlights the evolution of Hubbell’s nature-inspired sculptural style and the reoccurring threads that connect the work through the past five decades
Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way in Oceanside, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., general admission $8, 760-435-3720, oma-online.org
