La Jolla Playhouse Announces Return to Live Theatre With World Premieres by Charlayne Woodard and More The three world premieres include: The Garden, to the yellow house, and Bhangin’ It.by BWW News Desk La Jolla Playhouse has announced its return to live, in-person theatre with several exciting upcoming projects. This summer, the Playhouse will offer two on-site events: the Without Walls (WOW) production of A Thousand Ways (Part 2): An Encounter, by 600 Highwaymen, running June 3 - 20; and the 2021 DNA New Works Series, featuring readings of four new plays over the weekends of July 22 - 25 and July 29 - August 1. The Playhouse will also present a special Pop-Up WOW event featuring five short, Playhouse-commissioned Without Walls works, taking place August 14 - 15 at ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station.
Arts District Liberty Station Virtual First Friday Cost: Free Be inspired by this virtual lineup of talented local artists and creatives showcasing their craft to San Diego residents and beyond. Some of the best local artists and creatives are coming together for one night on the hosted virtual platform called Airmeet. You are just one click away from an evening filled with love. Dine your heart out with Solare Ristorante and learn some ways to celebrate a perfect Valentine’s evening. San Diego Dance Theater presents a performance of work created by its new Artistic Director, Terry Wilson. Learn the process of using painting to pull together a space with VELTZ Fine Art along with one-of-a-kind paintings and designs. Fall in love with the art and movement of dance during Canela Photography’s Valentine dance session. Milk Oolong Studio hosts a “Pottery & Glaze Chemistry” session showing you how to master the pottery wheel. See what’s going on at Lauren LeVieux’s studio with a look at her latest oil paintings, ancestral stories and art installations. An intergenerational piece using images, music and storytelling styles, La Jolla Playhouse presents “Spittin Truth to Power: Light Leaping for the People” with renowned San Diego poet Alyce Smith-Cooper and acclaimed DJ and musician Shammy Dee.
“Masterpiece Moment” This new series of short videos showcasing curated artworks from museums around the country launches with a piece from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art permanent collection: Mark Bradford’s monumental 2017 painting “150 Portrait Tone.” Available anytime. Free. lacma.org, bankofamerica.com, youtube.com “Dr. Katz: Live” Comics Dave Attell, Maria Bamford, Jim Gaffigan and Dom Irrera are the “patients” joining “therapist” and series cocreator Jonathan Katz and original cast members H. Jon Benjamin and Laura Silverman for a second livestream edition of this Emmy-winning 1990s-era animated sitcom. 5 p.m. Sunday. $20. rushtix.com “Veterans Speak Up” Chance Theater in Anaheim presents a socially distanced recording of this community-created showcase featuring, and based on, local veterans. Contains adult subject matter. Available through Jan. 31. Free. youtube.com
The interactive theater project is a trio of encounters between strangers that take place over several months. Part 1, which will begin Thursday, is a scheduled phone call in which two audience members will be paired together to create a shared fiction through a series of prompts. Part 2 will take place in a few months, when two audience members will sit at a table, separated by a pane of glass, to create another story using a stack of index cards, a handful of objects and a set of instructions. Part 3 will take place when the pandemic ends. All artists and audience members will gather together and, using a shared script, will create a collective experience inspired by the previous encounters.
I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. Society, indeed a world, cannot be understood in only 10 minutes. But it can, with all its crises and complexities, be placed in powerful perspective. In Alyce Smith Cooper’s and Shammy Dee’s “Spittin’ Truth to Power While Light Leaping for the People,” three short videos composed of storytelling, poetry and music coalesce to make an urgent intergenerational statement about where we are, where we’ve been and where we’re headed. The three-part video experience is a