Ballet Pacifica’s Lynch recognized for excellence

Ballet Pacifica’s Molly Lynch has received the Choo-San Goh Award for

choreography.

The artistic director for Ballet Pacifica was presented with the award

by the Choo-San Goh and H. Robert Magee Foundation, which supports

choreographic talent.

Lynch’s credits include “Counterpoint,” “Different Trains,” “A

Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “City Sky,” which will be restaged March 22

at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

She is also the force behind the Pacifica Choreographic Project, a

three-week workshop program that ends with a “works-in-progress” show.

The award, which amounts to $4,000, will help underwrite the

commission for a new work by Lynch, to eventually premiere at the

Barclay.

SCR playwrights fest schedule revealed

South Coast Repertory announced the play schedule for its fifth annual

Pacific Playwrights Festival, which will start in April and continue with

the 17th annual Hispanic Playwrights Project in August.

The festival is usually held over two consecutive weeks, but SCR will

present the Hispanic Playwrights Project separately this year to

accommodate construction at the theater. Summer is also a better time to

reprise last year’s “California Scenarios,” SCR officials say.

Readings for the Pacific Playwright’s Festival will be of new works by

playwrights Julio Cho, Steven Drukman, Beth Henley, Julia Jordan and Lynn

Nottage. They will be presented April 26, 27 and 28.

Shows will include the premiere of Horton Foote’s “Getting Frankie

Married -- and Afterwards” April 5 to May 5 and the West Coast premiere

of “The Dazzle,” by Richard Greenberg, March 29 through April 28.

The reading schedule for the Hispanic Playwrights Project has yet to

be announced.

Information: (714) 708-5555

Youth expo still accepting entries

The 23rd annual Orange County Youth Expo is still accepting entry

forms.

To take place April 19-21 at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa

Mesa, the Expo will include a talent search, a science and engineering

fair, a jazz festival and a pampered pets contest.

The entry form deadline for the talent search and jazz festival is

March 8.

The Expo will feature more than 10,000 projects from schools, 4-H

clubs and the Girl Scouts.

Information: (714) 568-1741.