7pm, Theater

“Grossinger’s . . . The Last Resort,” a concert musical presented by the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, stars Susan Edwards Martin as Jennie Grossinger, founder of the famous Grossinger Hotel in the Catskills. A benefit for the Jewish Federation/Valley Alliance, the evening includes a “Borscht Belt comedy preview” hosted by the Improv’s Budd Friedman, with a notable cast: “Seinfeld’s” Estelle Harris, Jack Carter, Shelley Berman, Estelle Getty, Renee Taylor, Joe Bologna, Norm Crosby, Fred Travalena and Max Alexander.

* “Grossinger’s . . . The Last Resort,” Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Drive. 7 p.m. Sold out. (818) 753-6681, (213) 480-3232.

11am

Music

The distinguished St. Petersburg String Quartet opens the popular brunch-time chamber music series at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre this week. Its program lists Prokofiev’s Quartet No. 2, Three Novelettes by Glazunov and, with pianist Justin Blasdale, the Quintet, Opus 34, by Brahms. Subsequent participants in the series are the Angeles String Quartet (June 18) and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Strings (June 25).

* The St. Petersburg String Quartet, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood. 11 a.m. Picnicking areas and brunch buffet are available. $25. (323) 461-3673.

4pm

Opera

Operas by Dallapiccola and Puccini, sung in English, comprise the first installment in Long Beach Opera offerings for 2000. Producer Michael Milenski has scheduled a double bill of “Night Flight” (Volo di Notte) and “The Cloak” (Il Tabarro), opening Sunday and repeated the following Saturday afternoon. In the casts are Brent Ellis, Susan Bullock, Matthew Kirchner, Scott Wyatt, Victor Ledbetter and Cynthia Munzer, among others. Andreas Mitisek conducts; stage director for both operas is Julian Webber. Promised for October: Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice” at the Getty Center.

* Long Beach Opera, Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts, Cal State Long Beach, 6200 Atherton St., Long Beach. 4 p.m. Sunday and 2 p.m. June 17. $50 to $95. (562) 439-2580.

7pm

Theater

Making its American premiere, Improbable Theatre’s hit London show, “Lifegame,” will create a different show each night based on a pre-selected San Diego resident’s life memories, using puppetry and music.

* “Lifegame,” La Jolla Playhouse, Weiss Forum, La Jolla Village Drive and Torrey Pines Road. 7 p.m. Regular schedule: Tuesdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m. Ends July 9. $21 to $39. (858) 550-1010.

7:30pm

Theater

In Melissa Cantrell’s drama “Conversations,” directed by James Reynolds, two women help a young man face his personal demons, and in Christopher Durang’s comedy, “The Actor’s Nightmare,” an accountant is mistaken for an understudy, thrust onstage and expected to play roles ranging from Shakespeare to Fred Astaire. The two one-acts make up the “Act 1 “ double bill.

* !Act 1 ,” Fremont Centre Theatre, 1000 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena. Sundays, 7:30 p.m., through July 9. $12. (626) 441-5977.

8pm

Pop Music

Magnetic Fields’ kudo-laden 1999 album “69 Love Songs” figures to be the centerpiece when New York pop eccentric and Stephin Merritt brings his Fields to the El Rey Theatre. The show replaces the originally scheduled two nights at the Knitting Factory Hollywood. Tickets for those dates will be honored at the El Rey.

* Magnetic Fields, Sunday at the El Rey Theatre, 5515 Wilshire Blvd., 8 p.m. $15. (323) 936-4790.