“Beyond Therapy,” Christopher Durang’s 1981 play, will be Conor O’Farrell’s next production for the benefit of the Idyllwild HELP Center. The previous productions — “The Odd Couple” and “Murder at the Howard Johnson’s” — were performed on Memorial Weekend, but, this year, late September is when the curtain rises. O’Farrell hopes the season will not…

University of California, Riverside, Professor Gabriela Canalizo will discuss her research in the study of active galactic nuclei in the near and distant universe — what is observed in the formation of galaxies and what mysteries are still there to ponder. Active galactic nuclei are some of the most powerful and luminous objects in the…