BEST BETS Sunday 8/27

IRVINE

3pm

Music

The Pacific Virtuosi will honor the 230th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with a varied Beethoven program. On tap are the Sonata for Piano, Opus 27, No. 2; Sonata for Cello and Piano, Opus 69, No. 3; Variations for Cello and Piano, and Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Cello, Opus 11. The soloists are clarinetist Michele Zukovsky, cellist Boris Andrianov, and the Virtuosi founder, pianist Leonid Levitsky.

* Pacific Virtuosi, Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive. 3 p.m. $16 to $30. Students and seniors: $10. (949) 854-4646.

FULLERTON

3:30pm

Music

Ayke Agus, who plays piano and violin, will team with accordionist Nick Ariondo for a unique program of solos and duos drawn from the baroque era to Gershwin. Their concert is the final program in the new Fullerton Friends of Music summer series. Concerts on the Friends’ winter and spring series are free, but there is a charge for the summer concerts.

* Fullerton Friends of Music, Hunt Library, 210 Basque Ave., Fullerton. 3:30 p.m. $15 adults; $5, children 12 and younger. (714) 525-5836.

SANTA ANA

7:30pm

Theater

Hunger Artists Theatre Company has gained a name for doing “well-known plays with a twist,” such as last year’s clobbering of Noel Coward in “White Trash Private Lives.” This time around it’s taking on three eclectic one-acts that fit its mold. Two of the plays are by David Ives. “Long Ago and Far Away” is the serious one concerning a housewife whose grappling with everyday life leaves her wondering about reality and why reality is what it is. In the other Ives play, the hilarious, 10-minute “Sure Thing,” a young man tries to meet a young woman in a restaurant. His first approach is wrong, so a bell rings and he has to start over. The bell may be his conscience, but it forces him to keep trying until he finds the right approach. The second serious play is John Carlino’s taut drama “Snowangel,” about two losers, setting a prostitute against a customer in his search to learn about himself and hopefully to rekindle his ability to love.

* Festival of One-Act Plays, Hunger Artists Theatre, 204 E. 4th St., Santa Ana. Fridays and Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; special performance, Monday, 8:30 p.m. Ends Sept. 3. $10 with reservation, $12 at door. (714) 547-9100.