FEB. 9
PATTI LUPONE: “DON’T MONKEY WITH BROADWAY”
In her one-woman show, the two-time Tony Award winner performs some of her favorite Broadway show tunes from composers such as Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jule Styne, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin while musing about her life on the stage and her concerns about the future of Broadway. Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, 615 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, 714-556-2787, scfta.org
FEB. 9
LIZZIE NO
A singer-songwriter, harpist, and guitarist, folk artist Lizzie No has played at Americanafest, South by Southwest, and the Mile of Music Festival. Her three albums have earned critical acclaim and proved popular on alt-rock and college radio stations. She’s at work on a new studio album. Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1201 W. Malvern Ave., Fullerton, 714-738-6595, themuck.org
FEB. 10
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
Icons in the gospel music world, the band came together in the late 1930s when the original members were kids at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind. The musicians have won five Grammys, been inducted into the Gospel Hall of Fame, sung at the White House for three presidents, and collaborated with artists such as Prince, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, and Stevie Wonder. Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine, 949-854-4646, thebarclay.org
FEB. 10 AND 11
WITTE LECTURE: ANNE APPLEBAUM
Journalist Applebaum, a senior fellow of international affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses global political and economic challenges in the lecture titled “Authoritarianism vs. Democracy: A Global Crisis.” Most recently, she has focused on the rise of authoritarianism in her reporting; she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for her book “Gulag: A History.” Newport Beach Public Library, 1000 Avocado Ave., Newport Beach, 949-548-2411, nbplf.foundation
FEB. 10 THROUGH 26
“A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER”
In this musical comedy, winner of the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical, Monty Navarro discovers he’s eighth in line to inherit the title of Earl of Highhurst and hatches a plan: He might not be able to outlive all of his predecessors, but he could potentially hasten their deaths. He just has to figure out how to do it without getting caught. Curtis Theatre, 1 Civic Center Circle, Brea, 714-990-7722, curtistheatre.com
FEB. 11
CYRILLE AIMÉE
The jazz vocalist won the Montreux Jazz Festival Vocal Competition in 2007 and the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in 2012 and has released a dozen albums over her career. “Marry Me a Little” on her album “Move On,” a collection of songs by Stephen Sondheim, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine, 949-854-4646, thebarclay.org
