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'Dead Man's Cell Phone' by Sarah Ruhl Directed by Phil Johnson Featuring Sandy Campbell, Jason Maddy, Thomas Edward Daugherty, Vicky Dawson, Leigh Akin, Yolanda Franklin & Mikaela Macias About the play: An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café, a stranger at the next table who has had enough, and a dead man with a lot of loose ends…so begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone. A wildly imaginative new comedy by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead and how that remembering changes us. It is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a tech-obsessed world. Monday, May 29, 2023 7:30 PM San Diego Musical Theatre 4650 Mercury Street, San Diego, CA 92111 'Dead Man's Cell Phone' tickets here. 'Enter Laughing' By Joseph Stein Directed by Phil Johnson Featuring Scott Striegel, Alex Guzman, Durwood Murray, Rin Ehlers Sheldon, Phil Johnson, Daren Scott, Jessica John, D. Candis Paule, Eliott Goretsky, Leigh Akin, Scott Striegel & Jason Heil About the play: A sidesplitting adaptation of the semi-autobiographical Carl Reiner novel. David Kolowitz (Reiner) is a sewing machine delivery boy who has his eyes set on theatrical stardom. His parents want him to become a druggist, but he defies them and leaves their dreams behind to be cast as the leading man in a third-rate theater company’s production. Culminating in a hilarious first performance where everything that can go wrong, does! This uproarious show is brought to life as only The Roustabouts can! Sunday, June 11, 2023 7:00 p.m. Jewish Community Center "Enter Laughing" tickets here. 'True West' By Sam Shepard Directed by Phil Johnson Featuring David McBean & Jason Maddy About the play: Austin is an intelligent, ivy-league screenwriter – his unpredictable brother Lee is a con artist and petty thief. Austin is battling writer’s block when these two estranged brothers meet in their mother’s desert home. The pressure rises as the brothers slowly draw closer, as if being sucked into an inevitable black hole. The past is recalled, old grudges recounted, and typewriters are smashed right on stage. A wild, funny, and brooding classic story of conflict, True West has been called Sam Shephard’s “masterwork” and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1983. Monday, July 10, 2023 7:30 p.m. Scripps Ranch Theatre "True West" tickets here. Related links: The Roustabouts Theatre Co. on Instagram | Facebook

Water for People San Diego Committee along with Avista and KSDS Jazz 88.3 are proud to present Jazz on Tap 2023, a charity Jazz concert to support Water For People, a global nonprofit promoting the development of high-quality drinking water and sanitation services. The jazz festival will be held on Saturday, June 24, 2023 at the Quartyard. Doors open at 2:15 p.m., with live music starting at 3 p.m. grooving away until 9:40 p.m. There will be food, drinks and live high-energy jazz music, highlighting local artists in a fun outdoor setting. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door. MUSIC LINEUP Steely Damned 2 Monette Marino World Jazz Ensemble Euphoria Brass Band Sure Fire Soul Ensemble Gilbert Castellanos Food and beverages will be available for purchase at the venue. All ages; a beer garden is 21+ only. Because of a Padres game at 5:40 p.m., public transportation and ridesharing are encouraged, as parking prices will be high and limited close to game time. The venue is easily accessible via the blue or orange trolley line. The closest trolley stop is one block away at Park and Market Station. Thank you from all of us at Water For People and the communities we serve in India, Bolivia, Peru, Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Tanzania, Honduras and Guatemala. The San Diego Committee supports the international efforts of Water For People by conducting public awareness and fundraising events in the San Diego area. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

ARTIST | Michelle Branch WHEN | Wednesday, October 18, 2023, at 8 p.m. - Doors at 7 p.m. VENUE | Belly Up Travern ADMISSION | General admission - $37 - Ticket Price: $37 advanced / $40 day of show / $65 reserved loft seating (available over the phone 858-481-8140 or in person at our box office) Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

STEPH RICHARDS, TRUMPET with MAX JAFFE, drums JOSHUA WHITE, piano STOMU TAKEISHI, electric bass Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater Event description: “A rising force in avant-garde jazz…a virtuoso of otherworldy sound” (Jazz Times) Trumpeter and composer Steph Richards has steadily established herself in as an engaging experimentalist on the jazz and creative music scenes, working with pioneering artists ranging Henry Threadgill and Anthony Braxton to Laurie Anderson and David Byrne. Her work is driven by a curiosity of what sensory variables are open to experimentation— often resulting in interdisciplinary works that include scent, dance, and performed in unexpected spaces such as carousels or underwater. Her works have been featured stages as iconic and varied as Carnegie Hall, the Blue-note and Lincoln Center. Originally from Canada, Richards has spent much of her career in Brooklyn, NY. Dedicated to experimental music without regard to genre, she is fluid in the contemporary music scene (she has performed alongside the Kronos Quartet and the International Contemporary Ensemble) as well as in the jazz and creative scenes, working with the many musicians such as Jason Moran, Ravi Coltrane and Sylvie Courvoisier. As a soloist, Richards’ solo records explore improvisation, spectral experimentation, groove and, in her more recent release, scent. Supersense (Northern Spy Records, 2020), is an inter-sensorial body of works by Steph Richards in collaboration with scent artist Sean Raspet. It is an exploration of the emotional dialogue between sound and scent, which evokes sensations that linger in the wordless space of sonic vibration and chemical reaction. "Supersense makes for high-grade experimental avant-garde and then some" (All About Jazz ****1/2). Her debut record Fullmoon (Relative Pitch Records) was hailed as a “bold pronouncement” by the New York Times and voted on multiple “Best of 2018” year end lists, including as the #1 Record of the Year by Free Jazz Collective. An electronic exploration of trumpet/resonating percussion and sampler, the record featured the work of pioneering electronic artist J.A. Dino Deane. Steph immediately followed up with her 2019 release Take The Neon Lights, a quartet situated between experimental jazz, free funk and avant rock, It also received high praise from critics, with Downbeat calling Steph “a virtuoso of nonlinear trumpet playing". For years she co-produced the NYC-based FONT Music festival alongside trumpeter Dave Douglas and now produces FONT West on the West Coast. She is on faculty at the experimentally driven University of California San Diego and is a Yamaha artist. Related links: Free. RSVP: http://music.ucsd.edu/tickets Streaming LIVE for FREE at http://music.ucsd.edu/live

The contemporary dance company will show four new works of movement art in their spring showcase, featuring the choreography of Zaquia Mahler Salinas, Chelsea Zeffiro, Marty Dorado and Anna Brown Massey.

From the organizers: The Wonderfront Music & Arts Festival is held in beautiful waterfront parks and piers, in Seaport Village, and on boats all along the San Diego downtown waterfront. Water taxis, trolleys, yacht party concerts, and sunset cruises are all part of the experience. The festival hosts over 80+ bands at 7+ stages, featuring some of the most prominent names in music. It integrates one of the most vibrant downtowns right into the Festival, with hotels, bars, restaurants, breweries, the Gaslamp Quarter and Little Italy all within steps of the gates. All imagined into one of the most unique festival destinations in the world. View the performer lineup here. Follow on social media: Facebook & Instagram

The last major age group to be vaccinated against COVID-19 - children ages 6 months to 5 years old – are now getting their shots. How significant is this in the fight against the virus? Then, primary elections often result in a low turnout of voters and this June’s California primary was no exception. But what about November? A new UC San Diego survey tries to take the temperature of voters in California. And, we’re learning more about pollution sources from the Port of San Diego that are affecting people’s health. But the new information has left port commissioners split on how to prioritize emission-reduction projects. Next, reaction to the new rules about where sidewalk vendors can now operate in Balboa Park and downtown San Diego. And, Scientists at UC San Diego are leading what they call the biggest community science project ever, on animal communication. Dogs are touching buttons on soundboards with their paws or nose, allowing them to communicate to humans--- words, thoughts – and maybe even sentences. Finally, the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture is now open in Riverside. One of its first exhibitions on view is a retrospective of works from local border artists, brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre.

This fall we are inviting budding naturalists for a 3-day adventure as we learn about nocturnal animals and what nature does at night. Through daily science and art activities, campers will explore adaptations and behaviors of nocturnal animals, how light affects plants, and how some animals survive in the dark. San Diego Children’s Discovery Museum: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Backyard Renaissance presents a World Premiere... THE OCTOBER NIGHT OF JOHNNY ZERO by Francis Gercke directed by Richard Baird Cast: Marcel Ferrin, Geoffrey Geissinger and Jessica John at Tenth Avenue Arts Center 930 Tenth Avenue. Where the 163 turns into 10th Avenue On a dark and stormy night, all Johnny wants to do is get home. But when his mom doesn't arrive at his usual pick-up time and her work phone number refuses to connect, Johnny ends up somewhere he never imagined... At the Pinnolini's. In the early 1980s of a late October afternoon, local legend and high school superstar Johnny Grimes is on a mission — to get back to his house, finish his book report, and compete in the Conference Basketball Finals the following day. Schoolmate Franky Pinnolini has a similar ambition — to make it all happen. Armed with a relentless adoration for Johnny and a BMX bike with a basket, Franky takes Johnny on a journey through the strange and peculiar backdrop of a place called home. Set in the wilds of Delaware Valley in the mid-Atlantic region of the eastern seaboard, The October Night of Johnny Zero is a world premiere based on events — both real and imaginary. Part true crime, part science fiction, the play slips down the rabbit hole of small-town suburban life and comes face to face with the myths and monsters that might lurk just below the surface. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Known for their dramatic blend of rock and electronic music with orchestral arrangements, The Airborne Toxic Event joins the San Diego Symphony in an electrifying concert you won't want to miss! The Airborne Toxic Event skyrocketed to popularity with the gold-selling single "Sometime Around Midnight" from the band’s self-titled 2008 debut album, a song which spent a staggering eight weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Chart. Since then, The Airborne Toxic Event has played a diverse spectrum of concerts, from performing with the San Francisco Symphony and Colorado Symphony at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre, to playing at the Coachella and Lollapalooza music festivals. Lead singer and songwriter Mikel Jollett’s New York Times bestselling memoir Hollywood Park was released in 2020 to critical acclaim from the Wall Street Journal, NPR and even Oprah’s O Magazine naming it one of their memoirs of the year. In Hollywood Park, Jollett chronicles his extraordinary personal journey, from his early childhood in one of the most infamous cults of the 1970s, through a childhood of poverty and emotional abuse, before finding his voice as an artist amidst the confusion of an adult life spent nursing the wounds of childhood, and the redemption which came from looking inward and an acceptance of self and the fierce love of family. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter