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I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. The Los Angeles of the ‘60s was fertile ground for the evolution of rock ‘n’ roll, film and pop art. At the same time, on Tamarind Avenue in Hollywood, a workshop under the leadership of printmaker June Wayne was pumping new life into the forgotten craft of lithography. Artists from other disciplines would enjoy residencies at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, producing works that expanded their creativity and revived printmaking. Four of them — Anni Albers, Ruth Asaw...

“Words are not enough, but they’re all that we have.” Those are among the first words spoken by the robotic female voice that guides two audience members through part one of “A Thousand Ways,” an unusual, serene and inspiring theatrical piece that opened last week as part of La Jolla Playhouse’s all-digital Without Walls Festival. Created by 600 Highwaymen, a New York experimental theater company founded by Michael Silverstone and Abigail Browde, “A Thousand Ways” was devised as a way to recreate the live and visceral connection between audience and art that has been missing ...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. An Interactive Phone Call Connects Isolated Audience Members in “A Thousand Ways” It’s an audacious fusion of virtual theater and audience participation that asks ticket buyers to talk on the phone with a stranger. Updated January 19 Forget Zoom. For Abigail Browde, the best weapon against loneliness during the pandemic is a phone. "I think there's truth in being on the phone together," she says. "I'm not pretending t...

Executive Producer: Thomas O. Kriegsmann / ArKtype Pick up the phone. Someone is on the line. You don't know their name, and you still won't when the hour is over, but through this exchange - as you follow a thread of automated prompts - a portrait of your partner will emerge through fleeting moments of exposure. A THOUSAND WAYS "takes a simple premise and turns it into magic" (The New Yorker). Under the Radar is thrilled to present A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL, the first of an eventual three-part series by Obie Award-winning theatermakers, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, known for exhilarating p...

The Public Theatre Facebook/@publictheater The Public Theater kicks off its 17th annual Under the Radar Festival January 6, running through January 17. The free programming features a mix of artists, including 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Javaad Alipoor, Inua Ellams, Trinidad González, Alicia Hall Moran, Piehole, and Whitney White and Peter Mark Kendall. Curated by UTR Festival Director Mark Russell, this year’s lineup includes digital live streams and on-demand performances, as well as the return of the Under the Radar Symposium: A Creative Summit January 7, a ...