By Charlene Baldridge | Downtown News
Embarcadero Marina Park
This month San Diego Symphony’s Summer Pops features Broadway Rocks (August 3-4), Burt Bacharach (August 5), Neil Sedaka (August 10-11), Pops Goes Classical (August 12), Wilson Phillips (August 17-18), Pirates of the Caribbean (August 19), a tribute to Michael Jackson (August 23), a tribute to the Eagles (August 24-25), and the 1812 Tchaikovsky Spectacular (August 31-September 1).
All concerts at 7:30 p.m., Embarcadero Marina Park South (S. Harbor Drive and Park Blvd.), $18-$76 depending on location (everything from champagne cabaret to blankets and beach chairs, certain restrictions apply, see web site for tickets and parking suggestions), www.sandiegosymphony.org or call (619) 235-0804.
Civic Theatre
Broadway/San Diego presents George Hamilton and Christopher Sieber in “La Cage Aux Folles,” a beloved musical set in Saint-Tropez, that concerns nightclub owner Georges, his partner Albin, aka ZaZa, and Albin’s son, who brings his fiancée’s conservative parents home to meet the glitzy guys. For mature audiences.
August 7-12, $24-$104, San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Avenue, Downtown San Diego, ticketmaster.com or (619) 570-1100.
The Old Globe
The Old Globe Shakespeare Festival (“Richard III,” “As You Like It” and “Inherit the Wind”), continuing in rotating repertory through September 30 in the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Continuing in the White Theatre is Yazmina Reza’s comedy sensation,
“God of Carnage,” which plays through September 2.
All Davies curtains are at 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays; Curtains in the White at 7 p.m. Tuesdays-Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 7 p.m. Sundays, 2 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays.
Old Globe, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park, $29-$95, www.theoldglobe.orgor (619) 23-GLOBE.
Continuing through August 12, San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts and San Diego Repertory Theatre present Luis Valdez’s groundbreaking musical, “Zoot Suit,” a muscular mix of historical fact and agitprop fiction, directed by Kirsten Brandt with choreography by Javier Velasco.
7 p.m. Tuesdays-Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Saturdays and selected Sundays, Lyceum Stage, San Diego Repertory Theatre, 79 Horton Plaza, San Diego, $32-$57 (students $18), www.sdrep.org or (619) 544-1000.
Copley Symphony Hall
Independently produced, Norah Jones sings at 7:30 p.m., August 8, 750 B Street, San Diego, $64-$75, ticketmaster.com
Charlene Baldridge moved to San Diego from the Chicago area in 1962. She’s been writing about the arts since 1979, and has had her features, critiques, surveys and interviews included in various publications ever since. Her book San Diego, Jewel of the California Coast (Northland Publishing) is currently available in bookstores. She can be reached at [email protected].
