Ticketmaster events are sold at Macy’s and Giant Eagle, both Hermitage; ticketmaster.com; and at 330-747-1212.



ART

• The Emerging Masters Collegiate Juried Exhibition shows through Aug. 10 at Art Outreach Gallery at the Eastwood Mall, Niles, Ohio. The exhibit features 110 works of art from 22 students enrolled in six universities and colleges in Ohio. Free.

• “California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews” shows June 21 through Sept. 7 at Akron Art Museum. Info: 330-376-9185 and www.akronartmuseum.org

• “Alternative Focus,” featuring pinhole photographs by Jessica Ferguson of Boston and Tom Persinger of Pittsburgh, is on view through Saturday at Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh. Info: 412-431-1810 and www.silvereye.org

• Trumbull Art Gallery’s Summerfest for Children 2008 kicks off at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday with a puppet show starring its inspiring artist, Marc Chagall. Info: 330-395-4876 and www.trumbullartgallery.com



COMMUNITY CONCERTS

• Buhl Farm will have the Warren Junior Military Band perform at 6 p.m. Sunday in the park as part of its summer concert series. Then, at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, catch the Fred Boles Quintet. Info: 724-981-0800 or www.hermitage.net

• Variety on the Square presents Chuck Thorpe & Friends, playing from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday in the old G.C. Murphy Building at 110 N. Pitt St., Mercer. There is an admission charge. Take a lawn chair. Info: 724-662-1490

• The Butler County Symphony features Larry Morrison and Amanda Brewster playing Celtic music as part of its “Concerts to Munch By” summer series, from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Wednesday in the symphony office building at 259 S. Main St., Butler. Concerts will be broadcast into Diamond Park. Free. Take your own lunch or buy one for $3 courtesy of City Subs. Info: 724-283-1402 or www.butlersymphony.org

• The 2008 7UP Summerfest Spectacular presents Canfield Community Concert Band Wednesday in the Judge Morley Pavilion in Mill Creek MetroParks. Info: 330-702-3000, lawn seating, free performances, alcohol-free



DANCE

• Take Fox Trot lessons from 7 to 8 p.m. Saturday in the Elks Lodge, Warren, Ohio. The open dance features swing, Latin, hustle and waltz, from 8 to 11 p.m. with Happy Feet Dance Productions providing the music. Info: Members $5, nonmembers $8

• Dance to the oldies with Cross Roads at 8 p.m. Friday or try polka with Jimmy Sturr & Del Sinchak at 8 p.m. Saturday in Kuzman’s Lounge, Girard, Ohio. Also, catch a jitterbug Wednesday.



DRAMATIC STAGE

• Meadville Council on the Arts presents “The Wool Gatherers,” a comedy by William Mastrosimone, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Gardner Theatre, 910 Market St. Reservations: 814-336-5051.

• Three actors take on all of William Shakespeare’s 37 plays in the irreverent romp “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” performed by Meadville Community Theatre’s Young Adult Summer Theatre. The show goes on at 8:15 p.m. July 11, 12, 18 and 19 and at 2:15 p.m. July 13 and 20 at 400 N. Main St. in the Oddfellows building on the north end of the campus of Allegheny College. Reservations: 814-333-1773.

• Kent Trumbull Theatre performs the Hans Christian Andersen classic “The Emperor’s New Clothes” at 7 p.m. June 20 and 27 and at 10:30 a.m. June 23-27 in Lecture Hall A, Kent Trumbull Campus. Tickets, which are $5, also include a magic show by Gary Morton. Info: 330-675-8887.

• Nikolai Gogol’s “The Gamblers” closes Sunday at Kennedy’s Cabaret, Cleveland. Tickets and info: www.clevelandart.org/tickets

• As part of its Echoes of the War show, New Castle Playhouse presents two short plays including “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals” and “The New Word.” See a Scottish woman who invents a soldier son serving in World War I to impress her friends and who is surprised when he appears at her doorstep, and then the comedic tale of a proper English father trying to communicate his deep feelings to an equally proper son preparing to go off to war. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Also catch them on June 20, 21 and 22 in the New Castle Playhouse Theater, 212 E. Long Ave. Dr. Neal Edman, Westminster College dean of student affairs, is producing the two one-act plays, which are directed by Dr. Scott Mackenzie, Westminster assistant professor of theater. Caryn Nicholson, a 2003 Westminster graduate who majored in theater, is associate director. Featured in starring roles are Westminster assistant professor of business Dr. Jacque King and junior English major David Lynch of New Castle.

Reservations: 724-654-3437. Tickets: www.TicketLeap.com and at the door. Info: info@newcastleplayhouse.org

• In “Hedda Gabler,” the mores of a Victorian woman trapped in a loveless marriage and driven to remain respectable leads her to seek fulfillment in manipulating the lives of others and fencing with a dangerous predator. It plays at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. Production by the Victorian Players, 702 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown. Reservations and info: 330-746-5455.



ETC.

• Three fans retrace the steps of beloved protagonist Holden Caulfield and track down the reclusive author of “The Catcher in the Rye” in the world premiere of Cleveland-made film “Catching Salinger” at 7:40 p.m. Saturday at Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. At 9:30 catch “The End of the World as We Knew It,” a film about the end of radio station The End. A Q & A with filmmaker Mike Wendt will follow the screening. Info: www.cia.edu

• Gene DeCaprio, Lynn Nelson-Rafferty and Kathy Bressler-Mansell team up for an afternoon of poetry and music at 2 p.m. June 29 at Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle. Tickets are $10 and include dessert and coffee. Info and reservations: 724-652-2882 and www.hoytartcenter.org

• Legendary balladeer Gordon Lightfoot sings at 7 p.m. June 22 at Warner Theater, Erie. Ticketmaster or 814-452-4857.

• “Jersey Boys” tells the story of the pop stars The Four Seasons Tuesday through July 20 at State Theatre, Cleveland. Tickets and info: 800-766-6048 and www.playhousesquare.com

• Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs works by Fauré and Saint-Saëns Friday and Sunday at Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh. Tickets: 412-392-4900 or www.pittsburghsymphony.org



KARAOKE

• Friday: Karaoke with Sherry-Oakie is at 9:30 p.m. at Sidebar & Grille, Mercer.

• Saturday: Sing along with karaoke at 9 p.m. in the Golden Bear Tavern, West Middlesex. Blue Ice Karaoke show starts at 10 p.m. in Laddie’s Sky Club, Masury.

• Sunday: Hawkeye and Londog and have more than 80,000 tracks to choose from at 9:30 p.m. in Jerry’s Tavern, Sharpsville. Blue Ice Karaoke starts at 10 p.m. at Another Corner Tavern, Sharon.

• Wednesday: Blue Ice Karaoke starts at 11 p.m. at Steph’s Corner Pub & Grill, Greenville.



LOCAL BANDS

• Hear Pink Floyd tribute band Wish You Were Here Saturday in the Warren Community Amphitheater, 300 Mahoning Ave.

• Popular local band Czar plays Friday night in the Okay Corral, Stoneboro. Then, catch Remedy on Saturday. Info: 724-376-7353. Remedy info: www.remedybandrocks.com

• The Hern Brothers Band plays at 10 p.m. Saturday in Jumpin Jack’s Chicken Shack, Boardman, Ohio. Band info: www.hernbrothers.com

• Scott Holt jams at 9 p.m. Monday in Tully’s Irish Pub, Sharon. Info: 724-981-3123 and www.quakersteakandlube.com

• Soundbite plays classic rock at 9:30 p.m. Saturday in Harry’s, Sharpsville. Info: 724-347-2508

• Stan Miller plays jazz at 7 p.m. Thursday in The Mill Street Grille, New Castle. Then, catch the Dan Murphy Trio at 8 p.m. Friday. Info: 724-654-7300

• Vick Rangel plays at 7 p.m. Thursday in The Basin, New Castle. Then, catch Tommy Chris at 7 p.m. Saturday. Info: 724-654-7300

• The Mudd Brothers will be rockin’ the The Palms in Conneaut Lake at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Info: www.myspace.com/muddbrothers

• Kalico plays country, Southern rock Friday and Saturday night in the Clark House, Clark. See them again Sunday in Harding Park, Hubbard.

• Steve Vuich from the River Saints plays solo at 9 p.m. Friday in O’Donold’s, Niles Ohio. Then, Steve Vuich and The American Refugees perform at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Youngstown Maennerchor Club. Info: www.myspace.com/theriversaints

• The band On Three rocks No Names in Sharon on Saturday.



Compiled by Herald Staff Writers Courtney Anderson and Matthew Snyder