Theater

A play about the drive-in, flowers meet art, Oceanside's disappearing places and more arts and culture events in San Diego this weekend.

"The XIXth (The Nineteenth)" at The Old Globe is about the iconic protest of two Black American sprinters at the 1968 Olympic Games. Playwright Kemp Powers also cowrote Pixar's "Soul" and co-directed the forthcoming "Spider-Verse" sequels.

This weekend in the arts: The Rosin Box Project's "Empower"; "25 Million Stitches" at the Mingei; Caltrans' "Clean California CommUNITY Days" on the I-15; Mali Irene and Joshua White; free San Diego Symphony concerts in the South Bay; the San Diego Opera's "Tosca"; and Sew Loka celebrates 10 years.

This weekend in the arts: "C You Saturday" at ICA San Diego North; San Diego Latino Film Festival's closing weekend; "The XIX (The Nineteenth)" at The Old Globe; the de la Torre Brothers at ICA San Diego Central; "Becoming, Always" from San Diego Dance Theater; La Jolla Symphony and Chorus' "'Music of the Spheres'; and an extended run for "The Outsiders."

Architectural visual art, Vivaldi ballets, hip-hop informed poetry, experimental pop, Bonita portraiture and more — get the details in our weekend arts roundup.

Choreographer-turned-playwright serves a loving send up of horror tropes.

This weekend in the arts: Adrian Huth at BFree Studio; Hausmann Quartet performs Tomeka Reid; Kelsey Brookes at Quint Gallery; San Diego Symphony performs Stravinsky and Beethoven; Markus Bacher and Claire Chambless at Oolong Gallery; French songs at Bread & Salt and more.

Diversionary Theatre's production of Temi Wilkey's 2020 play follows an LGBTQ couple facing traditional Nigerian parents.

Our arts picks this weekend include: Swish Projects at the New Children's Museum, San Diego Dance Theater's Live Arts Fest, "Black Voices, Black Writers" and more.

"I hope this goes everywhere. And even more than Broadway, I hope this goes into high schools all over the country."