BEST BETS Friday 7/28

SANTA ANA

8pm

Theater

The tamee is a man and the tamer a woman in the Rude Guerrilla Theater Company’s unorthodox, gender-reversed telling of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew.” What’s more, the action has been transplanted from Renaissance Italy to rebellious-without-a-cause young America, circa the James Dean era.

* “The Taming of the Shrew,” presented by the Rude Guerrilla Theater Company at the Empire Theater, 200 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. Thursdays through Saturdays, 8 p.m. Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Through Aug. 20. $10 to $12. (714) 547-4688.

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO

8pm

Pop Music

Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton have come and gone, and singer Keith Relf died in 1976, but the Yardbirds, the British Invasion’s masters of over-under-sideways-down blues and the fountainhead of guitar heroes, are back for another round. Original drummer Jim McCarty and rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja anchor the lineup.

* The Yardbirds, the Coach House, 33157 Camino Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano. With Grandpa’s Grass, Wheels of Autumn. 8 p.m. $19.50 to $21.50. (949) 496-8930. Also Saturday at B.B. King’s Blues Club, CityWalk, Universal City. 10 p.m. $10. (818) 622-5464.