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Segerstrom Center for the Arts introduces a bold new project with its first Off Center Festival, a dizzying mix of contemporary theater, music, dance and performance art taking place throughout the campus over nine days January 13 - 21. Every company and performer will be appearing at the Center for the first time.
The festival kicks off with Chautauqua!, a site-adapted vaudevillian-influenced variety show packed with music, comedy and short lectures by hand-selected local guests. Taking the spotlight will be OC Weekly's Gustavo Arellano; Erwin Chemerinsky, Founding Dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Law; Shelley Hoss, President of the Orange County Community Foundation; and Jim Washburn, arts and music writer and historian. The festival will continue with the soundscapes and sonic textures of indie band Lord Huron with supporting band, The Union Line; a one-of-a-kind set by explosive comedian/musician Reggie Watts with opening band BLOK, winner of OC Music Awards' Best Electronic Band 2011; and an in-your-face examination of our automobile-obsessed society in The Car Plays, which puts actors and audiences together in actual parked cars, and will include commissioned pieces.-----
Starving Artists Lounge at Leatherby's Café Rouge January 13 – 15 and January 18 – 21Open to all ages; to purchase alcohol adults must be 21 years and older with valid ID.Videos