Schedule for AIDS Benefit

SAN DIEGO — The readings and performances to take place during the 24-hour marathon AIDS benefit, which begins at noon Sunday at the Sixth Avenue Playhouse and continues Monday at the Lyceum Space:

SIXTH AVENUE PLAYHOUSE

Noon Sunday. Speaker: Terry Cunningham, executive director of AIDS Assistance Fund of San Diego.

12:15 p.m. “On Tidy Endings” (from “Safe Sex”) by Harvey Fierstein. Assn. of Community Theatres, with Ann Richardson and Brian Salmon.

1 p.m. “The New Car” by Amy Bamberger and Dina Polichar. California Young Playwrights Project, with Bill Dunnam.

1:20 p.m. “As Is” by William M. Hoffman. San Diego StageWorks.

2:45 p.m. “Roosters” by Milcha Sanchez-Scott. Teatro Meta.

4:30 p.m. “Life of the Party” by Doug Holsclaw. Diversionary Theatre Productions.

6 p.m. “Alternative Modes,” read and written by Stanley Fried.

6:30 p.m. “The Country Girl” by Clifford Odets, with Laura Ganz, Ric Barr and Fred Edmunds.

7:30 p.m. “Chameleon” by Michael Elias, with Veronic Henson-Phillips and Victor Kerva.

8:30 p.m. “A Bard’s-Eye View,” selection from William Shakespeare, with Jonathan McMurtry.

8:45 p.m. “When You Coming Back James Joyce?” by Michael Erickson, with Arthur Wagner.

9:20 p.m. “The Termination” by Navarre J. Perry with Tavis Ross.

9:40 p.m. “Spring’s Awakening” by Frank Wedekind, directed by Will Roberson.

Midnight. Mark Wenzel, mime.

LYCEUM SPACE

Midnight. Steven Gunderson, composer.

12:25 a.m. Monday. Nicole Ramirez-Murray, founder of the AIDS Assistance Fund, will speak on the AIDS epidemic in San Diego.

12:30 a.m. “The Marriage of Bette and Boo” by Christopher Durang, with Doug Jacobs, Sam Woodhouse, Welton Jones, Barbara Murray and Priscilla Allen.

2:30 a.m. “Moon City” by Paul Selig. Sledgehammer Theatre.

3:30 a.m. “The Darker Proof” by Edmund White. Redlin, Roberson and Scott Productions.

4:30 a.m. “Terminal Bar” by Paul Selig. Great Bear Productions, with Lisa Wolpe, Bruce McKenzie, Bernie Joiner and Darla Cash.

5:30 a.m. “Chardonnay Chapparal” by Bernie Joiner and Todd Blakesley. Medicinal Radio Theatre.

6 a.m. “Henry IV: Part 1” by William Shakespeare.

7 a.m. “Still Life” by Emily Mann, with Paul Nolan, Rosina Widdowson-Reynolds, Susanna Thompson and Annie Hinton.

8:30 a.m. “F.M.” by Romulus Linney, with Allison Brennan, Ralph Elias, Gwynn Essex, Annie Hinton.

9 a.m. “A Life in the Theatre” by David Mamet, with Kit Goldman and Will Simpson.

10:30 a.m. “I Am a Lion” by Reed Baer. Entre Productions.

Noon. Pablo Neruda’s Nobel lecture, read by Leon Singer.