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This week's San Diego theater report with news from Pacific Lyric Association, Patio Playhouse, Write Out Loud and San Diego Opera

A “Doggy Pit Stop” has appeared on the La Jolla Bike Path at the Rosemont Street entrance, a painted wooden structure offering water and treats to passing canines and waste bags to their owners.

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. To say that there’s more than meets the eye when observing the artwork of Baseera Khan would be an understatement. Deep within the materials Khan uses in multidisciplinary projects are both inner explorations and experiences with and within a complex world. “I think about material and its production and infrastructure and how it influences economies,” said Khan, who is th...

Print San Diego Opera returned to the Pechanga Arena parking lot over the weekend for a spring festival with a pandemic-themed recital and a colorful production of “The Barber of Seville.” The festival — which continues with three more performances of “Barber” this week — takes place in the same spot as the company’s last drive-in opera last fall, “La bohème,” but it improves on the formula. This time there’s better video screen placement, more live close-ups of the singer...

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. After a year’s hiatus because of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pacific Arts Movement’s Spring Showcase of films celebrating Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander identity is back. The festival, which begins tomorrow and runs through May 2, returns at a time when, says Pacific Arts Movement Artistic Director Brian Hu, “More now than in a generation eyes are on ...

Print Jonah Gercke grew up in a theatrical family, where both of his parents run local theater companies: Francis Gercke of Backyard Renaissance in San Diego and Kristianne Kurner of New Village Arts in Carlsbad. But for the 22-year-old Gercke, who uses the pronouns they/them/theirs, film was always their first and only passion. At age 9, they could recite from memory the weekly film national box office tallies. And after graduating from high school in Carlsbad, they filmed a documentary on t...

Inspired by the success from their safe drive-in performances of La bohème in the Fall, which heralded the return of live, in-person, opera to San Diego County since the start of the pandemic, and provided over 300 jobs to many who had not worked since March of 2020, San Diego Opera has announced a Spring season of safe, socially-distanced, drive-in performances. The Spring Season opens on Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 7:30 PM with One Amazing Night, San Diego Operas annual concert of arias and ...

On Sunday, San Diego Repertory Theatre will host the world premiere of “Before Fiddler — Live from Florence,” Hershey Felder’s sixth music-filled play streamed live from his home in Florence, Italy, since last May. Fans accustomed to the playwright/actor’s solo shows expect to see him playing piano as he tells the story of a famous composer. But “Before Fiddler” is a first in many ways. Streaming live at 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, is about the famous 19th-century Yiddish author and pl...