BEST BETS Sunday 10/8

BREA

8pm

Comedy

The impishly animated Brian Regan, who has a theater-trained flair for facial expressions and body language, is known for touching on a variety of topics in his act. But human behavior is his favorite subject, and he is usually the butt of his jokes. “I think we all feel uncomfortable, paranoid and insecure, and we mask those feelings, but I try to show through my act that we all feel that way, but it’s OK.”

* Brian Regan, Brea Improv, 945 E. Birch St., 8 p.m. Also Friday, 8:30 and 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, 8 and 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 8 p.m. $15 to $17. (714) 529-7878.

NEWPORT BEACH

3pm

Music

Founder Ami Porat will open the 16th season of the Mozart Classical Orchestra with a program by Beethoven and Rossini. Joel Wizansky, a faculty member at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, will be the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Porat will also conduct Beethoven’s First Symphony and, as the program opener, the Overture to Rossini’s “La Cambiale di Matrimonio.”

* Mozart Classical Orchestra, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 600 St. Andrews Road, Newport Beach. 3 p.m. $15 to $32. (949) 830-2950. Also Thursday at Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive. 8 p.m. $20 to $36. (949) 854-4646.