“Jazz, like history, can never be silent,” says el Poeta (Richard Montoya), narrator of “Federal Jazz Project,” now have its world premiere at San Diego Repertory Theatre.

Sam Woodhouse directs this big, loud, raucous valentine to border towns San Diego and Tijuana, encompassing the years from 1939 on. It’s a collaboration between Richard Montoya (writer of the often-poetic script) and trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos, composer of the original jazz score who also leads the boffo onstage band of five.

Admit it: you watch those beauty pageants too, and not for the talent portion of the competition.

Here’s a contest with a difference. “Pageant: The Musical” (playing through May 12 at Coronado Playhouse) is a hilarious send-up of all those beauty contests we’re so addicted to.

Jennie Gray Connard does double duty as director and choreographer of the 1991 off-Broadway hit with book & lyrics by Bill Russell and Frank Kelly and music by Albert Evans.

(This post was originally published by SDGLN content partner GLAAD.)

Tonight catch the season finale of "Archer," plus all new episodes of "Glee," "The Office," "Go On," "Tabatha Takes Over" and "Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell."

9:00 pm: Glee, Fox (1 hr) NEW

Hedda Gabler, splayed out on the couch with a bullet through her head, wakes from her final scene.

“Did I miss?” she asks. Then, seeing husband Tesman: “Am I in hell?

Well, not quite, but she and many other fictional/historical/mythological characters will flit through Jeff Whitty’s witty “The Further Adventures Of Hedda Gabler” on their way to ... well, I’m getting ahead of myself.