To Kill a Mockingbird (movie)

About once a month, members of the Michalski family discuss by phone our monthly book. Three generations of the family take part. Members call in from California to Texas to Chicago. Biggest obstacle: Coordinating time zones to make sure that the...

No sooner does September check in than local stage productions flood in. The honor of kicking off the 2011-12 season goes to the Costa Mesa Playhouse. This weekend it revives Noel Coward's ghostly comedy "Blithe Spirit." That's the antique chuckler about...

Our book club is composed of about 20 students in seventh and eighth grades (at the academy, in Chicago). The students are always busy with schoolwork and extracurricular activities, but they find time to tackle the club's extra reading. Our club meets...

Three local collegiate theater departments launch their respective seasons this month with openings on Friday night and the following two Fridays — all classics in one form or another — and for one of them, it's a very special event. That...

Actress Lynn Milgrim will step onto the main stage at South Coast Repertory on Friday night as Mrs. Carrie Watts. To inhabit the role of the protagonist in Horton Foote's "A Trip to Bountiful," Milgrim will don an old-fashioned lavender cotton dress. The...

TUESDAY Green Clothes "Considered," an art exhibition of environmentally friendly clothes designed by students at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, continues at Hurley's H Space Gallery, 1945 Placentia Ave., Costa Mesa. The gallery is...

WEDNESDAY Good Times Crown Cove MBK Senior Living, 3901 E. Coast Hwy., Corona del Mar, will have a happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m., featuring live music, tacos and margaritas. For information, call (949) 760-2800. 'Killing Kasztner' The Chabad Jewish...

THURSDAY Book Signing Lynda Zussman signs copies of her book, "Throw Me the Rope: A Memoir of Loving Lauren," from 10 a.m. to noon at the Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County, 1 Federation Way, Irvine. 'Patient 13' Vox Pop Films presents...

Sunday, Nov. 6 "Taste of Laurel" The annual event will take place from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Laurel Historical Society, 817 Main St. Samples will be available from area restaurants and businesses, including Cakes by Adrianne, Keith Foods,...

FRIDAY Book Sale The Friends of the Library hold a book sale from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Friends Bookstore in the Central branch of the Newport Beach Public Library, 1000 Avocado Ave. For more information, call (949) 759-9667. Book Signing Susan...

As a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and a movie that has become a modern classic, Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" has long been an American standard of excellence. Playwright Christopher Sergel's fine stage adaptation continues this tradition....

SATURDAY Temple Services A weekly Torah Study is at Temple Bat Yahm's Benjamin Marcus Library from 9 to 10:30 a.m. A special guest, Rabbi Gershom Sizomu of the Jewish Abayudaya Tribe in Uganda, will appear at the Saturday Shabbat Service, starting at...