thursday, may 16
Aladdin
Arms Wide Open presents the classic tale of Aladdin and the magic lamp. Featuring a cast made up entirely of performers with special needs. Arms Wide Open is a non-profit organization that gives children and adults with special needs opportunities to participate in the performing arts.
Lyceum Stage, Horton Plaza in San Diego, 7 p.m., tickets $15, 619-544-1000, sdrep.org
friday, may 17
Summer Movies in the Park: The Rookie
The 2013 Summer Movies in the Park season is kicking off this weekend with a bang!
Come to Balboa Park/ Morley Field for The Rookie starting at dusk!
Bring your blankets, picnics, and lawn chairs for a fun night for the whole family!
Summer Movies in the Park, 2221 Morley Field Drive in San Diego, free, 8 p.m., dusk -approx. 15 minutes after sunset, summermoviesinthepark.com
saturday, may 18
Marcia Ball: Toast of the Coast
This all-star group promises a lively and soulful evening of music from the American South and Gulf Coast. Marcia Ball is a five-time Grammy nominee (including 2012 for Best Blues Album), and an eight-time Blues Music Award winner with four wins in the last five years for Best Piano Player, and two recent wins for Best Contemporary Blues-Female Artist of the Year. She has also been honored as a Gulf Coast Music Hall of Fame Inductee.
Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave, in San Diego, 8 p.m., tickets from $30, 619-570-1100, sandiegotheatres.org
sunday, may 19
Zombie Prom
This girl-loves-ghoul rock ‘n roll off-Broadway musical is set in the atomic 1950s at Enrico Fermi High, where the law is laid down by a zany, tyrannical principal. Pretty senior Toffee has fallen for the class bad boy. Family pressure forces her to end the romance, and he charges off to the nuclear waste dump. He returns glowing and determined to reclaim Toffee’s heart. He still wants to graduate, but most of all he wants to take Toffee to the prom. The principal orders him to drop dead while a scandal reporter seizes on him as the freak du jour. History comes to his rescue while a tuneful selection of original songs in the style of ‘50s hits keeps the action rocking across the stage.
Moxie Theatre, 6663 El Cajon Blvd. in San Diego, 2 p.m., tickets from $17, 619-448-5673
monday, may 20
Bottled & Kegged: San Diego’s Craft Brew Culture
This exhibit explores the ebb and flow of beer production in the San Diego region over the years and answers the question: Why is San Diego becoming such a nationally renowned region for craft beer production and innovation? Beginning with the region’s earliest inhabitants to the present day, the exhibit highlights events and individuals who built a brewing industry where once there was none, kept an industry alive during Prohibition, and managed to bring back what, at one time, was one of the region’s most robust enterprises. The exhibit features many hands-on interactive elements that help explain: the brewing process, how San Diego County brewers achieve such expansive flavor profiles, and the science behind matching beers with food. Bottled & Kegged has components that speaks to audiences of all ages and will educate even the most avid craft beer lover.
San Diego History Center, 1649 El Prado in Balboa Park, open daily from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., adult admission $6, 619-232-6203, sandiegohistory.org
tuesday, may 21
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
The Figueroa Family and Its Jewish Roots: A Journey Through Music
Guillermo Figueroa was formerly music director of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and is currently music director of Colorado’s Music in the Mountains festival. Guillermo and his sister, Ivonne Figueroa, of the University of Puerto Rico, trace their family’s roots in a concert presentation with stories, photographs, violin and piano music. This event is part of the Anti-Defamation League’s festival “¡Celébrate! The Jewish Experience in Spanish-Speaking Countries.”
Lyceum Space, Horton Plaza in San Diego, 7:30 p.m., tickets $18, 619-544-1000, sdrep.org
wednesday, may 22
Shakespeare’s R and J
After curfew, four repressed students in a parochial school for boys discover in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet a forbidden text that becomes more dangerous as they explore their pent-up energy and adolescent passion boiling under the surface. A hot-blooded and unique take on R&J.
Cygnet Theatre, 4040 Twigg Street in San Diego, 7:30 p.m., tickets 434, 619-337-1525, cygnettheatre.com
