Community at a glance

Today-Feb. 8 Fifteen, a faculty and staff art exhibit, is on view in The Art Corridor II on SE Campus. The free exhibit is open Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Today-Feb. 9 Music fills Stage West during its production of Putting It Together. The Stephen Sondheim revue/musical explores relationships. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays and Sundays, 8 p.m. Fridays and 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturdays.

Today-Feb. 16 The Lakeview Gallery on NW Campus presents an art exhibit by Anita Knox, Jacqui Dorsey and Mary Frances Robinson. The gallery is open Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Today-Feb 16 Psycho Beach Party takes the stage at Fort Worth Theatre. A spoof of all the ’60s beach movies, Psycho Beach Party is a lively, fun production. All performances are at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays. Tickets are $12-$15. Call 817-921-5300 for more information and reservations.

Today-Feb. 16 The Last Train to Nibroc runs at Circle Theatre. This new play paints a funny and touching “Norman Rockwell portrait” of two people searching for happiness. Based on the premise that the bodies of two great American writers, Nathaniel West and F. Scott Fitzgerald, are aboard the same train heading to New York, the romantic staging revolves around May and a young flyer, named Raleigh. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Saturdays. Call 817-877-3040 for tickets, priced $15-$30, and more information.

Today-Feb. 17 SE Campus student, Deborah Prickett, stars as Juliet in Romeo, Jubilee Theatre’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Set in New Orleans during the early 1900s, the play’s feuding families are Creole. Showtimes for the production are 8:15 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3:15 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets, at $14-$20, are available at 817-336-4411. Saturday matinees offer two-for-one prices.

Today-Feb. 17 Theatre Arlington presents The Boys Next Door. Rated PG-13, it is a funny, touching play about the lives of four mentally challenged men who live in a communal residence with a kind, but increasingly burned-out, young social worker. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Call 817-275-7661 for tickets, priced $14-$16. Discounts are available for students, senior citizens and groups.

Feb. 1-2 The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra will perform two concerts at the Bass Performance Hall, featuring Midori, violin soloist. Miguel Harth-Bedoya will conduct the program consisting of Tragic Overture, Opus 81 and Symphony No. 3 in F. Opus 90 by Brahms, Concerto no. 1 in A Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 99 by Shostakovich. Tickets start at $12. For reservations, call 817-665-6000 or log on to www.fwsymphony.org.

Feb. 3 The Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth offers a classical alternative on Super Bowl Sunday at Bass Performance Hall at 7:30 p.m. All four orchestra levels will perform classical favorites in a concert suitable for the entire family. The $10 and $15 tickets are available at 817-212-4280.

Feb. 5 Compositions by Dr. Blaise Ferrandino will be the focus of Texas Woman University’s visiting artist recital. The free performance will be in Margo Jones Performance Hall on the TWU campus.

Feb. 20-23 SE Campus will present Fools, a Neil Simon comedy. The Russian village of Kulyenchikov is put under a curse, rendering its residents completely stupid. A young schoolmaster arrives to attempt to teach the unteachable and perhaps break the curse.

Feb. 26-March 10 Once Upon a Mattress becomes the first joint theater production by NE and NW campuses. Based on the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea, the musical comedy will feature students from both campuses and will be performed on each campus on consecutive weeks.

March 5-8 South Campus drama department will perform A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. The play concerns an African-American family in Chicago in the 1950s seeking to improve the quality of their lives.