Ranch & Coast Magazine

Bridge of Spies Screening and Q&A March 8 | Sacred Heart Church The Coronado Island Film Festival, along with the Coronado Historical Association, will host a special screening event of the dramatic feature film Bridge of Spies (DreamWorks Pictures, 2015) including an intimate conversation with Francis Gary Powers, Jr., son of U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose capture after the Soviet Union shot down his U-2 spy plane during the Cold War set in motion the events of the film. On May 1, 1960, Powers was captured by the KGB, subjected to a televised show trial, and sentenced to ten years in prison. Powers' only hope was New York lawyer James Donovan (Tom Hanks), recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film received six Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, and won Best Supporting Actor for Mark Rylance. A limited number of VIP tickets will include a pre-screening reception with Powers, Jr. coronadofilmfest.com Bhangin' It: A Bangin' New Musical March 8-April 17 La Jolla Playhouse A young woman finds she is unable Beatrice Rana March 4 | The Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad La Jolla Music Society's Piano Series continues with young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, who has been a force on the music scene since winning awards at the prestigious Montreal International Musical Competition and Van Cliburn International Piano Competition — all by the age of 20. Her program includes Debussy's fiendishly difficult Études and Stravinsky's groundbreaking Petrushka. ljms.org Dr. Grammar Guy March 7 | North Coast Repertory Theatre After his sold-out performance of Amazing Words and other shows over the years, North Coast Rep brings back Richard Lederer with his newest performance. The San Diego Union-Tribune history quizmaster and language columnist will illuminate essential grammar, usage, and punctuation, including the terminal preposition, split infinitive, they as a third-person singular pronoun, and the utility of the serial comma. Everyone, even grammarphobes, will enjoy Dr. Lederer's brand of language and learning dressed up to have fun. northcoastrep.org to communicate her identity by just checking a box, causing her to dance to her own beat in contemporary America. The result is a brash, joyous, and liberating musical. The extraordinary cast brings "an incredible vitality to a show that is very much of our current cultural moment," says Christopher Ashley, the Rich Family Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse. Celebrate traditions from yesterday and ones created for the future with Bhangin' It: A Bangin' New Musical, a world-premiere production. lajollaplayhouse.org Beethoven, Mozart, and Shostakovich March 18 | The Village Church, Rancho Santa Fe A rising star among young American conductors, Jonathon Heyward leads the San Diego Symphony Orchestra in Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9. RICHARD LEDERER: PHOTO COURTESY OF NORTH COAST REP, BRIDGE OF SPIES: U.S. PILOT FRANCIS GARY POWERS, COURTESY PHOTO Culture @ranchandcoast ranchandcoast.com 36 MARCH 2022 RANCH & COAST MAGAZINE

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