Calendar for Nov. 20

FRIDAY

Fall Baking Favorites

Learn how to make a chocolate hazelnut tart, cranberry-apple tartlets and a pumpkin spice coffee cake from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Sur la Table, South Coast Plaza, 3333 Bear St., Costa Mesa. Tickets are $33.96. For more information, call (800) 243-0852 or visit surlatable.com.

FRIDAY TILL SUNDAY

‘The Bacchae’

Orange Coast College’s theater department will present the Greek tragedy, “The Bacchae,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the college’s Drama Lab Studio, 2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. For more information, visit occtickets.com.

Steve Byrne

Comedian Steve Byrne will perform at 7:30 and 9:45 p.m. Friday, 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday at Irvine Improv, Irvine Spectrum Center, 527 Spectrum Center Drive. Tickets are $20. For more information, call (949) 854-5455 or visit irvine.improv.com.

SATURDAY TILL DEC. 6

‘These Shining Lives’

The Department of Drama at UC Irvine presents, “These Shining Lives,” a play focusing on the strength and determination of women considered expendable in their day. The play is at UC Irvine’s Humanities Hall Little Theatre, with performances at 8 p.m. Saturday and Dec. 3 through 5; 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2; and 2 p.m. Sunday and Dec. 5 and 6. Tickets are $11 to $15. For more information, call (949) 824-2787 or visit arts.uci.edu.