If you’ve ever heard Charles Lloyd on saxophone, you know there’s no one else in the world who can make it sing, speak, dance or just tickle like he does. Though Lloyd has performed with different trios and quartets over decades, sometimes on flute or other wind instrument and in different musical genres, his distinctive style always comes through — playful, soulful, surprising, delightful and spiritually transporting. For one night only at the Soka Performing Arts Center on

Andrew Polec (center) with ensemble cast of "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" at Laguna Playhouse (Photo by Jason Niedle/TETHOS)...

From left: Emma Magbanua, Naya Ramsey-Clarke, Kayley Stallings and Linda Bard in “Spring Awakening” at Chance Theater (Photo by Doug...

This summer’s Festival of Arts annual “Pageant of the Masters” has begun, casting real people into works of art in a series of tableaux...