NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, Oct. 16.
SEATTLE — This is the final weekend for Book-It Repertory Theatre’s production of “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love,” Raymond Carver’s famed story, at the Center Theatre, 305 Harrison St. at Seattle Center.
Starring an ensemble of four actors, Book-It is staging “What We Talk about” along with three other Carver pieces: “Intimacy,” “The Student’s Wife” and “Cathedral,” tonight through Sunday.
Tickets are $25 to $50, with discounts for those who decide to become Book-It season subscribers, via book-it.org or 206-216-0833.
Curtain times for the two-hour, 10-minute production are 7:30 tonight and Saturday and finally at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Center Theatre, where a display about Carver’s life and work — including his final 10 years in Port Angeles — awaits play-goers.
Meet Ben in PA
PORT ANGELES — “Benjamin Franklin” is on his way to Peninsula College.
Portrayed by actor and historian Christopher Lowell, Ben will talk about his life in a benefit performance next Friday, Oct. 23, in the Little Theater on the college’s main campus, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Tickets are $20 with proceeds to benefit the North Olympic Land Trust’s farm, fish and forest conservation work.
To buy tickets to the 7 p.m. show — which will include a discussion afterward — visit www.northolympiclandtrust.org or phone the land trust office at 360-417-1815.
More about Lowell and his portrayal, meanwhile, can be found at benfranklinlive.com.
Going Barefoot
PORT ANGELES — The Barefoot Movement, a young bluegrass band, will scamper into downtown next Friday, Oct. 23, for a Juan de Fuca Foundation Living Room Series concert at Studio Bob, 1181/2 E. Front St.
The four-piece acoustic group invites its audience to sit back, relax and take their shoes off for the 7:30 p.m. show, for which tickets are $15.
Outlets include Port Book and News, 104 E. First St., Port Angeles, and Joyful Noise Music Center, 108 W. Washington St., Sequim.
To find out more about this and other Juan de Fuca Foundation for the Arts concerts, see JFFA.org or phone 360-457-5411.
Vegas pianist
PORT LUDLOW — Pianist and Las Vegas entertainer David Osborne will give a Port Ludlow Performing Arts-sponsored concert at the Bay Club next Saturday, Oct. 24.
Tickets are $25 for the 7:30 p.m. performance, while details and reservations are available at www.PortLudlowPerformingArts.com.
New residents to Port Ludlow, however, are offered a two-for-one certificate entitling them to purchase two tickets to their first Port Ludlow Performing Arts concert for just $25.
For details, contact Diane Purdy at 360-437-1262. gpurdy@cablespeed.com.
Osborne, who’s from Miami, Okla., has a repertoire that ranges from classical and jazz to pop and Broadway show tunes.
He’s just one of the artists in the Port Ludlow concert series; also slated are Franc D’Ambrosio’s Christmas in New York show Dec. 6 and a Patsy Cline tribute with Sara Catherine Wheatley on Feb. 19.
All of these shows come to the auditorium at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Place.
Chamber fest
PORT TOWNSEND — Tonight’s Port Townsend Chamber Music Series concert by Anonymous 4 is sold out, but tickets are still available for two forthcoming series concerts:
■ The Amelia Piano Trio will bring the music of Dvorak, Beethoven and Shostakovich to the Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way, at 2 p.m. Jan. 31.
■ The Calder Quartet, an ensemble known for the discovery of emerging composers and its work with artists from the classical and contemporary music world, will give a concert at 7:30 p.m. June 4, also at the Wheeler Theater.
Tickets for either performance range from $33 to $40 at 800-746-1982 or centrum.org.
Diane Urbani de la Paz
