Community at a glance

Today-Feb. 27 Finding Time, a faculty and staff exhibition in Art Corridor II on SE Campus, ends its run. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. For more information, contact John Frost at 817-515-3406.

Today-Feb. 29 The Irving Arts Center closes its exhibit of Exquisite Stitches: African American Quilts. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday and Tuesday.

Today-March 21 Dallas Theater Center presents Top-dog/Underdog in the Kalita Humphreys Theater. The play deals with sibling rivalry placing two brothers in a room with a game of three-card monte. Lincoln and Booth, named as a joke, have lived with sibling rivalry and resentment. In this fresh and funny play, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future in one final high-stakes game.

Today-March 27 Shanghai Moon by Charles Busch opens at Pocket Sandwich Theatre. Shanghai Moon is a tongue-in-cheek look at the 1930s oriental movie melodramas. It involves the visit by a notorious young beauty to Shanghai, where she becomes involved in a steamy affair with a mysterious warlord and ensnared in an exotic world of opium addiction, drug smuggling and white slavery. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets, ranging from $8-$16, are available at 214-821-1860.

Today-April 18 The Kimbell Art Museum is exhibiting The Drawings of Francois Boucher (1703-1770) and Boucher’s Mythological Paintings. Hours are Tuesday-Thursday and Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday noon-8 p.m. and Sunday noon-5 p.m.

Today-May 2 The Amon Carter Museum presents Sights Once Seen: Daguerreotyping Fremont’s Last Expedition Through the Rockies. This exhibition brings together American history and the history of photography. It features more than 100 daguerreotypes by photographer Robert Shlaer, who from 1994-98 retraced the route of explorer John C. Fremont. Fremont led an expedition from Missouri to California in an attempt to locate a route for the proposed transcontinental railway.

Today-May 9 The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History has opened a new exhibit: Play it by Ear. This exhibit invites visitors to touch, hear and play with sound art. Admission is included with regular admission: $7 for adults; $5 for children (3-12) and seniors (60+). Exhibit hours are Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Friday-Saturday 9 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. For more information, call 817-255-9300.

Today-May 31 The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History presents Whodunit? The interactive exhibit explores scientific methods and technologies used to solve crimes, including DNA profiling, fingerprinting, firearm identification, forensic anthropology, pathology, entomology, odontology, evidence collection and trace evidence. Admission to the exhibit is included with regular admission. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for children (3-12) and seniors (60+). Exhibit hours are Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Friday-Saturday 9 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. For information, call 817-255-9300.

Feb. 27-29 Agua, Azucarillos y Aguardiente by Frederico Chueca will be presented by the TCU Opera Studio with the TCU Symphony Orchestra. The performance features excerpts from Zarzuela performed by soprano Martha Guitérrez. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday in Ed Landreth Auditorium.

Feb. 27 Bach’s Harpsichord concertos will be presented by the Dallas Bach Society at 8 p.m. in the Church of the Transfiguration. Tickets are $15, $20 and $25. Order tickets at www.dallasbach.org or 214-320-8700.

Feb. 28 Fort Worth Early Music will perform at the Kimbell Art Museum at 2 p.m. The musical program includes Monteclair’s Le mort de Didon, Clerambault’s Orphée and Trio Sonatas by Leclair and Boismotier. Admission is free, but seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.

March 2 The Cowtown Opry will celebrate and remember Texas Independence Day and the state’s heritage. The program begins at 5 p.m. and includes reenactments, dinner, entertainment and a silent auction. Tickets are $50 each. For reservations, call 817-366-9675.

March 2 Third Coast Live—Radio Theatre offers comedy and musical sketches in the style of old radio. Return to the wonderful days of imagination at Pocket Sandwich Theatre. Tickets are $10. Seating and food and beverage service begin at 6:15 p.m. and the show at 7:30 p.m. Call 214-821-1860 for reservations for the PG-13 production.

March 2-5 Barefoot in the Park will be performed in the SE Campus Roberson Theatre Tuesday-Friday at 8 p.m. with a 2 p.m. matinee Friday. The 1960s comedy concerns a young newlywed couple who move into a modest apartment and start their lives together. The husband is a realistic and practical young lawyer while the wife is more idealistic. Tickets are $5 general admission, $3 for non-TCC students and senior citizens and free for TCC students, faculty and staff. For reservations call 817-515-3599.

March 3-5 The South Campus drama department presents The Grapes of Wrath. Set in the 1930s dust bowl and Depression, the play is based on John Steinbeck’s award-winning novel by the same name. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday in the Carillon Theater of the Joe B. Rushing Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $5 general admission, $3 for non-TCC students and senior citizens and free for TCC students, faculty and staff. For reservations call 817-515-4642.

March 3-6 The Laramie Project opens on NE Campus. The play is based on over 200 interviews with people from the town of Laramie, Wyo., following the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay University of Wyoming student killed by two townspeople. Shepard’s killers were convicted of murder during a hate crime. Performances are 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Thursday and Saturday in the NE Theatre. Tickets are $5 general admission, $3 for non-TCC students and senior citizens and free for TCC students, faculty and staff. For reservations call 817-515-6687 or e-mail NEPlayhouse@tccd.edu.

March 5-7 Irving Children’s Theatre presents The Phantom Tollbooth in Dupree Theater. Milo visits the Land of Wisdom, where he learns of the disagreement between King Azaz and the Mathemagician, who banished the two Princesses Sweet Rhyme and Pure Reason. Milo is dispatched to rescue them from the land of Ignorance. The play is suitable for children 6 and older. Tickets are $6-$8. Call 972-252-2787 for reservations and times.

March 5-7 The North Texas Irish Festival in Fair Park, Dallas, will feature music, dance, food, crafts, storytelling and more. For general information, contact the festival director at director@ntif.org.

March 11-14 Pantagleize Theatre Co. presents Pajama Tops, an adaptation of Jean de Latraz’s French farce Moumou. Mistaken identities and deception form the basis for hilarious misunderstandings at the heart of the plot filled with double entendre. Several cast, crew and management members are current or former TCC students, faculty and staff. Tickets range from $10-$15 with discounts for seniors, students, teachers and groups and half price for TCC students. Performances are 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday in the Hardy and Betty Sanders Theatre at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center across from the Will Rogers complex. Call 817-731-9470 for reservations.