If you’d rather join in on some fun, check out Theatre Alliance’s 50s Skate Night Sunday, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., at Skate Haven in Winston- Salem. For only $5 a person, admission includes a skate rental, as well as participation in games, giveaways, and children’s arts and crafts.

Don’t forget that this Sunday is Mother’s Day, and if you’re not sure what to get that special lady, you can always treat her to the special experience of dinner and a show. And there are several feelgood comedies and family-friendly performances in the Triad this week.

Appearing in her bare stocking feet, comedian Jeanne Robertson performs at High Point Theatre Thursday only. Speaking English and Southern, she’ll tell us why it’s a bad idea to send a man to the grocery store, go rafting without a Baptist in the boat or bungee-jump naked.

New on Friday is Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem’s If You Give a Mouse A Cookie and Other Storybooks..

Saturday and Sunday UNCSA will have the honor of being the only school invited to perform in a professional dance performance in UNC- Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall. Students of the dance, music and design and production programs will present, Spring Dance,.

Saturday, Greensboro Ballet will host its new fundraiser “Ballet, Beer and Barbeque” from 5-8 p.m. at Flintrock Farm, located in Reidsville. The event will include two westernstyled ballets, with costumes donated by Wrangler, as well as live music and open square dancing.

Also on Friday, Triad Stage’s Pyrle Theatre will be teeming with enthusiasts, with two exciting productions on its main stage and upstairs cabaret space. In the UpStage Cabaret, Touring Theatre of North Carolina presents its literary performance of Todd Johnson’s The Sweet By and By,.

It’s officially spring, and though that may come with the desire to fill your days with sun-baked yard work, there are still a few cool days ahead that might warrant hibernating with one of this week’s plays..

Saturday, the all-male singing group and the official singing organization of Morehouse College, the Morehouse College Glee Club, will be in concert at Bennett College at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public, the concert will be performed in the historic Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel.

Set in the grand salons of upper-class Paris in the 1780s, the play counters the traditional idea of heartfelt romance with a thrilling story about two master schemers who challenge each other to a game of seduction and are surprised by the power of love.

Also on Friday, comedian Steve Lesser performs in a charity show, “Stand Up for Random Acts of Kindness,” a benefit for the Pepper Rayfield Hope Foundation, at the Idiot Box. Admission is free with a suggested donation of $10.

The free-admission event is to raise awareness of the ECHO Network (Everyone Can Help Out), an initiative to build a better community by providing opportunities to foster enriching, trusting and long-lasting relationships among diverse people..

Old Salem Museums & Gardens will host a Heritage Festival Saturday in celebration of Black History Month.

On Valentine’s Day — that’s Thursday for the non-romantics — Greensboro City Arts presents a free “Sweet Sounds” Valentine’s Day dance and concert at the Bur-Mil Park Clubhouse. Concertgoers are invited to get up and dance or just sit back, relax and enjoy the music.

The Winston-Salem Symphony will present a concert featuring music for lovers in the days preceding Valentine’s Day. The symphony will perform 20th century composer Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2, op. 30 (Romantic),.

The music-filled psychological drama follows a musicologist obsessed with uncovering a mystery behind Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations..

A world-famous tenor has been brought to the Cleveland Opera Company to entertain at a gala fundraiser, but before the star leaves his hotel room, everything starts to fall apart. Even when he accidentally overdoses on tranquilizers, the show must go on.

The NC Dance Festival is hosting a special event for the dance community Friday. The NCDF Bonus Day at the Cultural Arts Center offers the opportunity to take a morning class with artists Gary Taylor of the Winston-Salem Festival Ballet and EE Balcos of Charlotte-based E.

The High Point Theatre is kicking off 2013 with a number of outstanding performances and events, the first of which is a family-friendly magical illusion this Saturday. The theater hosts North Carolina native magician Sammy Cortino, on his first national tour, Magic’s Royal Duke Sammy Cortino.

A parade of characters and themed activities are planned prior to each performance so that audience members may meet the participants, get autographs or have pictures taken..