2 pm: Theater

Paula Weston Solano performs her solo play, “Appearances.” Directed and developed by Jessica Kubzansky, the play follows the lives of six Asian women--a Hong Kong-born interior designer, an urban Vietnamese American teenager, a Beverly Hills socialite, a Chinese immigrant and her American-born daughter and granddaughter--from 1926 to the present.* “Appearances,” Met Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Ave., L.A. Sundays, 2 p.m.; Mondays, 8 p.m. Ends July 9. $12. (323) 242-4290.

5 pm: Art

Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden discusses her role as artist Lee Krasner in the film “Pollock” as part of a fund-raiser for the Cal State Long Beach University Art Museum’s Friends of the Gordon F. Hampton Collection. The fund is dedicated to creating and maintaining exhibitions and educational programming related to the collection, as well as programs showcasing the work of emerging and established artists not readily seen in Southern California. The by-reservation-only event will be held at the law offices of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, where the Hampton collection is on display. The collection includes paintings from all periods of Krasner’s career as well as work by more than 40 other artists. The evening will include wine, hors d’oeuvres and a private viewing of the collection, followed by a dinner and conversation with Harden.* Marcia Gay Harden discusses Lee Krasner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, 333 S. Hope St., 41st floor, downtown L.A. 5 p.m. $250. (562) 985-5761.

4 pm: Music

Under conductor Iris Levine, Vox Femina Los Angeles, the 30-voice female ensemble, presents Diane Benjamin’s “Where I Live,” as well as works by Sue Fink, Margie Adam, Libby Larsen, Stephen Smith, Holly Near, Karen Hart and the Wyrd Sisters in Westchester, to be repeated June 23 in Zipper Hall at the Colburn School, downtown Los Angeles. * Vox Femina performs in Covenant Presbyterian Church, 6323 W. 80th St., Westchester. 4 p.m. $15. (310) 838-8151.

4 pm: Opera

Susan Marie Pierson sings the title role in Richard Strauss’ “Elektra,” in English at two scheduled performances by Long Beach Opera, in Carpenter Center. Viennese conductor Andreas Mitisek leads the performances, Sunday at 4 p.m. and June 16 at 8 p.m. Also in the cast: Deidra Palmour, Kathryn Day and John Duykers. Stage director is Roy Rallo.* Long Beach Opera opens its production of Richard Strauss’ “Elektra” in the Carpenter Center at Cal State Long Beach, 6200 Atherton St., Long Beach. 4 p.m. $45-$95. Also, June 16 at 8 p.m.

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Freebies

Blues guitarist Eric Essix, jazz singerSandra Booker and the Keschia Potter Quartet are thefeatured artists in a Playboy Jazz Festival community concert. Baldwin HillsCrenshaw Plaza, Crenshaw and Martin Luther Kingboulevards, 2 p.m. (310) 449-4070.

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Production designer Jeannine Oppewall will be saluted by the Art Directors Guild’s Film Society with a screening of the 1998 film “Pleasantville,” for which shereceived an Academy Award nomination.Directors Guild, 7920 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Sunday,5 p.m. RSVP: (818) 762-9995.