The plays this spring at OCC

Orange Coast College’s spring theatre season will offer seven

productions through mid-May at both its Drama Lab Studio and Drama Lab

Theatre, at 2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa.

William Shakespeare’s “A Comedy of Errors,” began Thursday and will be

staged for two runs -- one through Sunday, one from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3.

Joseph Pintauro’s “Metropolitan Operas” will run Feb. 9-10 and Feb.

16-17. Israel Horovitz’s “North Shore Fish,” will be staged March 7-10

and March 14-17.

From March 21-24, OCC’s Repertory will present its “Old Fashioned

Melodrama and Ice Cream Social,” to be followed by a full-length play

directed by an OCC student April 19-21. The title has not yet been

announced.

“John Brown’s Body,” based on a Stephen Vincent Benet poem, will

follow May 2-5 and May 9-12. And the season will conclude with OCC’s

annual “Spring One-Act Play Festival” May 15-19.

Information: (714) 432-5640.

All-American chorus to lose Albulario

The Costa Mesa based All-American Boys Chorus recently announced that

music director and conductor David T.R. Albulario has decided to follow

other career possibilities, which leaves the chorus looking for a

successor.

Albulario, who was appointed conductor 11 years ago, will remain with

the chorus through the fall.

The group has formed a search committee to look for someone to fill

his position later in the year, and details of the job description can be

found at o7 https://www.AllAmericanBoysChorus.org. f7

Resumes and letters should be sent to Executive Director, The

All-American Boys Chorus, P.O. Box 1527, Costa Mesa, CA 92628-1527.

Ever want to go to Patagonia?

If Patagonia is a dream destination for you, you need go no further

than the Newport Beach Central Library’s free slide presentation of

“Exploring Patagonia,” 4 and 7 p.m. Thursday.

Presented by Jim Wood, the program will feature “a vicarious journey

to the end of the earth, in the lap of luxury,” as the climber and

adventure traveler shares stories from his August journey to the

southernmost tip of South America with his wife, Nikki.

In Patagonia’s winter, the couple explored the dramatic landscape of

islands, glaciers, icebergs and mountains on the west coast of Chile near

the Straits of Magellan.The Newport Beach Central Library is at 1000

Avocado Ave.

Information: (949) 717-3801.