BEST BETS Friday 3/9

IRVINE

8pm

World Music

When Turkish musician Burhan Ocal was here last, he was joined by the always-adventurous Kronos Quartet, who assisted him with the world premier of a new work Ocal had written. Now he’s back, once again courtesy of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, touring with his regular collaborators, the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble, playing the traditional folk and classical music of their native land.

* Burhan Ocal, Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive. 8 p.m. $25 to $29. (949) 553-2422.

FULLERTON

8pm

Theater

Theater-goers who enjoyed South Coast Repertory’s recent scenes-from-a-famous-Victorian-marriage play, “The Countess,” might want to delve into a parallel work, “Grasmere.” The first full-length script by promising Orange County playwright Kristina Leach, it takes some poetic license in dramatizing the tangled emotional triangle among three greats of English Romantic poetry: William Wordsworth, his sister Dorothy and their friend Samuel Coleridge.

* “Grasmere,” Arena Theatre, Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, 800 N. State College Blvd. Park in Lot D. Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m.; Sunday, 6:30 p.m. Also, March 13, 15 and 17, 8 p.m.; March 18, 2 p.m. Playing in repertory with “Mama Drama.” Through March 18. $8. (714) 278-3371.