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Arts & Culture Newsletter: Ziggy Marley at the Belly Up: 'Music will be in the house, even if people aren't'


I’m
David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
It’s appropriate that
Ziggy Marley’s first show of 2021 performing with his entire band behind him will be at the
Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach.
“I grew up there,” said Marley. “As a teenager and as an adult, for me it’s a special place.”
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Tickets for this livestreaming concert, which begins tonight at 6:30, are $20.
The son of reggae legend Bob Marley has been busy, even with live performances in front of audiences on the shelf for now. He collaborated with Colombian reggaeton singer Maluma on a single called “Tonika” for Maluma’s album “7 Dias en Jamaica,” and Paramount Pictures has announced that Marley, along with his mother Rita and sister Cedella, will be co-producers of a new Bob Marley biopic. ....

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Theater Notebook: San Diego Rep's new play-reading festival to celebrate Black voices


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As part of its expanded inclusion and diversity efforts, San Diego Repertory Theatre will launch a new program this month, its inaugural San Diego Rep Black Voices 2021 Play Reading Series.
The four-week series taking place live online at 5:30 p.m. Mondays, March 15 through April 5 will feature works by four Black playwrights, directed by four Black directors and starring a combined 23 actors, 18 of whom are either Black or Asian-American.
Each performance will include a live salon hosted by leading theater artists and scholars. The play series is being curated by director Delicia Turner Sonnenberg and Rep associate artistic director Danielle Ward, with additional curation by dramaturg Kimberly King and Rep development and artistic associate Ahmed K. Dents. ....

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Theater Notebook: Cygnet rolls out its next Finish Line play commission 'Run/Fire'


Cygnet Theatre will continue its Bill and Judy Garrett Finish Line Commission new play festival next month with the opening of Aurin Squire’s “Run/Fire,” in a streaming production that will play Feb. 8 through 14.
Now in its fifth year under the sponsorship of longtime Cygnet donors Bill and Judy Garrett, the new play series usually includes forums, workshops and performances that are open to the public. This is the first time it is being produced virtually.
Each year, three plays are selected for development. One of the plays developed at the 2019 Finish Line festival, Herbert Siguenza’s “Bad Hombres/Good Wives,” went on to receive its world premiere later that year at San Diego Repertory Theatre. ....

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