“”Arms and the Man”” – Nov. 17 to Nov.26 Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre

Avant garde, controversial, classic, but never boring — the UCSD theatre department’s upcoming graduate production of George Bernard Shaw’s social satire on love and war, “Arms and the Man,” shouldn’t disappoint. Many of Shaw’s works mocked the stodgy Victorian culture of his era. “Arms and the Man,” set during the four-month-long Serbo-Bulgarian conflict in 1885, took a stab at Europe’s romanticization of war. In the play, a Hungarian woman is torn between her fiance — a failed soldier — and a mercenary who has taken refuge in her house, but her romantic troubles also force her to consider the devastating effects of war.

Director Joseph Ward added a fresh vision to a classic play in last year’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Although “Arms” is more than a century old, the absurdity of war is still a timely theme in modern America. (CC)

“”Disco Dolls in Hot Skin”” – Nov. 19 at 11:55 p.m. Landmark La Jolla Village

When the first screened 3-D movie premiered in 1915, complete with the signature red/green glasses, who could have guessed that the novel (and headache-inducing) format would one day be applied to the most cult of genres: the porno. Fast-forward to 1977, and the release of the oft-shown “Disco Dolls in Hot Skin,” featuring in its long forgotten cast a cameo by the legendarily endowed John Holmes (his once-reported 15-inch member has since been downsized to a mere nine inches by, ahem, experts). The plot, as is typical of the genre, is a series of disconnected and thinly veiled excuses to get some humpin’ going on. The real question is, why does porn need to be shown in 3 dimensions? One can only imagine the ghostly sailing semen, mountainous clitorides and broadsword penises that this implies, but I’m sure I’ll need to see it to believe it. (CBN)