At Copley Symphony Hall, picking just two of numerous San Diego Symphony opportunities this month: March 11-13 St. Louis Symphony music director David Robertson conducts pianist Orli Shaham, his wife, and the San Diego Symphony in Edward Grieg’s ultra-melodic Piano Concerto in A minor. Also programmed are Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 (“Rhenish”) and Gyorgy Ligeti’s “Concert Românesc.” March 25-26 Silent Film Night: film restoration expert/conductor Gillian Anderson leads the San Diego Symphony in accompanying Herbert Brenon’s Peter Pan (1924), based upon J.M. Barrie’s original play, with Betty Bronson as Peter and Anna May Wong as Tiger Lily. Popcorn will be sold for only $1 a bag. www.sandiegosymphony.org or (619) 235-0804 At the Lyceum, Horton Plaza March 19-April 17 on the Lyceum Stage, Sam Woodhouse stages Sarah Ruhl’s comic period piece, “In the Next Room (or the vibrator play),” which takes place in an era when “hysteria” resulted from the latest electronic gadget. Wednesdays-Sundays at San Diego Repertory Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, Downtown San Diego, www.sdrep.org or (619) 544-1000. At The Old Globe, Balboa Park March 12-April 17 The Old Globe presents Ian Bruce’s “Groundswell,” a suspenseful drama that takes place on the rocky coast of South Africa, where the subject is diamonds. Tuesdays-Sundays in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre at the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, The Old Globe, 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park, www.theoldglobe.org or (619) 23-GLOBE At Civic Theatre 8 p.m. Friday, March 11 La Jolla Music Society presents the acclaimed Joffrey Ballet in Gerald Arpino’s “Reflections,” Jessica Lang’s “Crossed” and Edwaard [sic] Liang’s “Age of Innocence” (lecture at 7 p.m.), San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 3rd Ave., $30-$75, http://www.ljms.org/ or (619) 570-1100.
