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Friday, May 12
• 'If the Shoe Fits': BoarsHead Theater's managing director, Marlene Shelton, has written this play, set in 1595 London, about a cobbler's apprentice who is torn between loyalty to the family business and a career on the stage under the tutelage of William Shakespeare. See it at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday, repeating May 19-20 at the theater, 425 S. Grand Ave. Tickets are $10, $7 for students. Info: 484-7805.
• 'Blues in the Night': New York singer Valerie diLorenzo delivers classic blues songs from Bessie Smith, Johnny Mercer and other American composers in a Broadway-revue-style show by musical director Jeff English with choreography by Mark Ruhala. It's onstage at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday at The Gate, 1846 Haslett Road in East Lansing. Tickets are $10, $8 for seniors and kids 12 and younger. Info: 337-0464.
• MasterWorks VI: Gustav Meier conducts the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m. in the Wharton Center's Great Hall. The program features works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. It's Meier's final show as conductor. Tickets are $10-$42 at 487-5001.

• 'A Wilde Time': Riverwalk Theatre's Black Box series serves up an evening of razor-sharp wit with "A Wilde Time," adapted from the works of Oscar Wilde. It's onstage at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and May 19-20 and 2 p.m. May 21 at the Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St. in Old Town. Tickets are $10 for general admission. Info: 482-5700.
• 'Beau Jest': The Lansing Civic Players perform James Sherman's romantic comedy about a woman who leads her parents to believe she's dating a nice Jewish boy when she's really dating an uptight gentile accountant. It's onstage at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and May 19-20 and 2 p.m. Sunday and May 21 at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road in East Lansing. Tickets are $15, $13 for seniors and students, $8 for children 12 and younger. Info: 484-9191 or www.lansingcivicplayers.org.
Saturday May, 13
• Kate Clinton: Kate Clinton calls herself a faith-based, tax-paying, America-loving political humorist. She has worked through economic booms and busts, Disneyfication and Wal-Martization, gay movements and gay markets, lesbian chic and queer eyes, and 10 presidential inaugurals. On her Web site (www.kateclinton.com), she writes that she believes humor gets us through peacetime, wartime and scoundrel time. To celebrate her 25th anniversary of performing, she's embarking on a 50-city tour: ''It's Come To This!'' She'll perform at 8 p.m. at Dart Auditorium, 500 N. Capitol Ave, downtown. Tickets, $25, are available through Goldenrod Music (www.goldenrod.com or 484-1712). The show will be ASL interpreted.
Tuesday, May 16
• 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat': Patrick Cassidy stars in Andrew Lloyd Webber's lively musical take on the biblical tale of Joseph and the tribes of Israel. "American Idol" contestant Amy Adams (remember the one with the pink hair?) co-stars as the Narrator. The show wraps up the Wharton Center's 2005-06 Broadway Series. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through May 18, 8 p.m. May 19, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. May 20 and 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. May 21. Tickets, $25-$57.50, are at 432-2000 or www.whartoncenter.com.

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