thursday, jan. 8
Steal Heaven
Do you ever wonder if activism in America can provoke real change? Is it possible to stand up and shout and really make a difference? Maybe it’s time to get a little crazy! This is where bad-boy Abbie Hoffman comes in. You know about Abbie, right? He was the political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party (“Yippies”) on New Year’s Eve 1968. But did you know that this icon of youthful rebellion now serves as the patron saint of radicals? In his little corner of heaven, Abbie conducts a boot camp for activists who have the chutzpah required to go back to Earth to become new agents of change.
Lyceum Space Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza in San Diego, 8 p.m., tickets from $31, 619-544-1000, sdrep.org
friday, jan. 9
Edo de Waart conducts Elgar
One of America and Europe’s most in-demand guest conductors, Edo de Waart, makes his Jacobs Music Center debut with a Jacobs Masterworks program featuring Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s film-saturated Violin Concerto and Edward Elgar’s bewitching Enigma Variations. Special guest is violinist Alina Pogostkina, a 2005 Sibelius Competition winner.
Jacobs Music Center formerly Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B Street in San Diego, 8 p.m., tickets from $20, sandiegosymphony.org
saturday, jan. 10
The Peking Acrobats
The Peking Acrobats are masters of agility and grace, defying gravity with awe-inspiring gymnastic displays of contortion, flexibility and control. Get ready to gasp as China’s most talented performers will tumble through the air, dive through hoops, juggle spinning plates and walk on wires!
The California Center for the Arts, 340 N Escondido Blvd. in Escondido, 7:30 p.m., tickets from $25, 1-800-988-4253, artcenter.org
sunday, jan. 11
Wrong Window
In this comedy tribute to master of horror Alfred Hitchcock, off-and-on couple Marnie and Jeff think they spy their cross courtyard neighbor do away with his wife. After the lady vanishes, suspicion places murder beyond a shadow of a doubt. Among multiple door-slammings, body-snatchings and a frantic flashlight chase scene, two questions remain; who killed Lila Larswald? And, if she’s not dead, then who is?
PowPAC Community Theatre, 13250 Poway Road in Poway, 2 p.m., tickets $20, 858-679-8085, powpac.org
monday, jan. 12
Film Forum: Pride
It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decide to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem. The Union seems embarrassed to receive their support. Starring Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Dominic West.
San Diego Central Library, 330 Park Blvd. in San Diego, 6:30 p.m., free admission, sandiego.gov/public-library
tuesday, jan. 13
Neil Shigley: Invisible People
Striving to spread awareness and tell the stories of the homeless population in our city, Neil Shigley: Invisible People focuses on select works Shigley has created which document San Diego’s homeless, a group often hidden and forgotten. Through the presented large scale block prints and graphite on paper works he captures the incredible character that life on the streets has given these individuals, many of whom are from his neighborhood near downtown San Diego. These portraits of “invisible people” show great nobility, beauty, strength and vulnerability; they are there if we only look.
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
wednesday, jan. 14
Gunmetal Blues
A San Diego premiere, this wildly entertaining musical spoof of 1940s film noir is laced with mystery, music and demolished dreams. In the best Raymond Chandler tradition, the scene is set in the seedy, smoky Red Eye Lounge, where we meet a tough, trench-coated private eye, blondes and more blondes, henchmen and a jaded piano player who sends up complicated plot concoctions.
North Coast Repertory Theatre, 987 Lomas Santa Fe Drive in Solana Beach, 8 p.m., tickets $40, 858-481-1055, northcoastrep.org
