Out of Town: San Diego

What’s happening the next few weeks:

* Eric Idle, right, performs May 2 at 8 p.m. at the San Diego State University Open Air Theatre, 5500 Campanile Drive. (619) 594-4327.

* “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection,” an exhibition of 80-plus paintings, sculptures and photographs representing art in Mexico from the 1910s to 1990s, opens May 14 at the Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla. Ends Sept. 4. (858) 454-3541.

* The Cure plays June 1 at 7 p.m. at the San Diego State University Open Air Theatre, 5500 Campanile Drive. (619) 594-4327.

* The exhibit “Palace of Gold & Light: Treasures From the Topkapi, Istanbul,” which includes imperial jewels, art and artifacts from the royal home of the Ottoman Sultans, runs July 14-Sept. 24 at the San Diego Museum of Art, at the end of Laurel Street in Balboa Park. (619) 232-7931.