Every week in Places!, TheaterJones rounds up the weekend and coming week for theater, music, opera, dance and comedy performances that are opening/happening on North Texas stages.

This week: The Fort Worth Opera Festival kicks off, and that includes one of two local stage productions about Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Theatre Three goes on a Seminar; and there's tango brewing in Plano.

Click on the slideshow icon in the floating menu at bottom left of your screen, and you'll see photos from some of these productions and events.

THURSDAY, APRIL 17 THROUGH WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2014

THE WEEKEND TOP FIVE

Photo: Ellen Appel

The Pearl Fishers at Fort Worth Opera

1. The Fort Worth Opera Festival opens with Bizet's The Pearl Fishers at Bass Performance Hall on April 19. The festival continues through May 11 with Mozart's Così fan tutte, Kevin Puts/Mark Campbell's Silent Night and Daniel Crozier/Peter Krask's With Blood, With Ink, about Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz. Also, the opera group Forte performs at Bass Hall on Sunday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m.

» Our listing for Pearl Fishers, with times, ticket info, map and more (opens April 19)

» Our interview with baritone Lee Poulis, who plays Zurga in The Pearl Fishers

» Our listing for With Blood, With Ink, with times, ticket info, map and more (opens April 20)

» Our feature on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

» Our interview with Dona D. Vaughn, director of With Blood, With Ink

» Our listing for Così fan tutte, with times, ticket info, map and more (opens April 26)

» Our listing for Silent Night, with times, ticket info, map and more (opens May 4)

2. Teatro Dallas presents Miguel Sabido's play The Masks of Sor Juana, April 17-May 18

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

» Our feature on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

3. Evolution Tango presents Shades of Tango at the Courtyard Theatre in Plano, April 18-19

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

4. Fun House Theatre and Film does Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, using most of the cast from its 2013 production of Hamlet, April 17-26 at Plano Children's Theatre

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

5. The Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth presents a reunion of Vermeer Quartet, April 19 at the Renzo Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

ALSO OPENING/HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND

Photo: Contemporary Ballet Dallas

Of Vice & Virtue at Contemporary Ballet Dallas

Cliburn Concerts presents 1997 Cliburn Gold Medalist Jon Nakamatsu at the Renzo Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum, April 17

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

Hear oboeist Nicholas Arbolino with Symphony Arlington on April 17 at the Arlington Music Hall; repeats April 18 with Garland Symphony and April 19 with Las Colinas Symphony

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

Contemporary Ballet Dallas presents Of Vice & Virtue at the Latino Cultural Center

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

Stolen Shakespeare Guild does Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in its Pulitzer Series at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center's Sanders Theatre, April 18-May 4

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

Artisan Center Theater in Hurst presents Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, April 18-May 10

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

Catch the film version of Del Shores' play Southern Baptist Sissies, featuring Shores and some of the film's stars, including Leslie Jordan, at the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff

» More info here

Tenor Allan Glassman, whose credits include Metropolitan Opera, performs for the Blue Candlelight Music series, April 20

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

IN THE COMING WEEK

Photo: Lisa Mazzucco

Emerson String Quartet performs on the Dallas Chamber Music series

The Emerson String Quartet is on the Dallas Chamber Music series, April 21, at Caruth Auditorium at Southern Methodist University

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

LAST CHANCE!

These productions will close this weekend

Photo: Katherine Owens

We Are Proud to Present a Presentation at Undermain Theatre

Ain't Misbehavin' at Jubilee Theatre

» Our review

Boeing-Boeing at Sherman Community Players

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

The Fox on the Fairway at Onstage in Bedford

» Our listing, with times, ticket info, map and more

We Are Proud to Present a Presentation... at Undermain Theatre

» Our review

COMING UP

a look ahead at 30 performances opening/happening in the subsequent 2 or 3 weeks

1. Uptown Players and Turtle Creek Chorale come together for a staged concert of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, April 24-26 at City Performance Hall
2. Theatre Three does the regional premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Seminar, April 24-May 18
3. Dallas Children's Theater presents Charlotte's Web at Rosewood Center for Family Arts, April 25-June 1
4. LakeCities Ballet Theatre does its 30th Anniversary Gala, April 25-26 at the MCL Grand Theatre in Lewisville
5. Greater Lewisville Community Theatre presents Marc Camoletti's farce Boeing-Boeing, April 25-May 11
6. Mesquite Community Theatre does Dearly Departed, April 25-May 10
7. Casa Mañana Children's Theatre closes its season with the musical Peter Pan, April 25-May 11
8. Dallas Theater Center presents Steven Dietz's adaptation of Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, at the Wyly Theatre. Previews begin April 25; opens May 2 and runs through May 25
9. Voces Intimae, an art song group, closes the season with "Melodie Exotique: Reflections on the Exotic," April 26 at Zion Lutheran Church in Dallas
10. Fine Arts Chamber Players presents the Verlaine Trio at the Dallas Museum of Art's Horchow Auditorium, April 26
11. Shakespeare Dallas' Complete Works series presents a semi-staged reading of Coriolanus, April 27-28 at Hamon Hall in the AT&T Performing Arts Center's Winspear Opera House
12. Circle Theatre's production of David Ives' Venus in Fur transfers to the Studio Theatre at WaterTower Theatre, April 27-May 18
13. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Beethoven Festival kicks off on April 28 at Dallas City Performance Hall; other performances are at the Meyerson Symphony Center
14. Texas Camerata presents "A Joyful Noise" at Trinity Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, April 29
15. Dallas Chamber Symphony closes its season at Dallas City Performance Hall, April 29
16. Cliburn Concerts presents the group Time for Three at the Live Oak Music Lounge in Fort Worth, April 29
17. Our Productions Theatre Company presents the original musical Project Youth: A Musical of Hope and Survival at MCL Grand Theatre in Lewisville, April 30-May 4
18. Circle Theatre in Fort Worth opens the area premiere of Sharr White's The Other Place, April 1-24
19. Sundown Collaborative Theatre presents the original work Insatiable Infatuation with Violence, May 2-11, at the Greenspace Arts Collective in Denton
20. Uptown Players does the area premiere of Nicky Silver's The Lyons at Kalita Humphreys Theater, May 2-18
21. Music Theatre of Denton does the rock musical Spring Awakening, May 2-11 at the Campus Theatre in Denton
22. TITAS presents its annual Command Performance Gala, Friday, May 2 at the AT&T Performing Arts Center's Winspear Opera House
23. Violin legend Itzhak Perlman performs May 4 in the Recital Series at AT&T Performing Arts Center's Winspear Opera House
24. Voices of Change presents The Book of American Poetry Volume III, May 4 at Caruth Auditorium at SMU
25. Oral Fixation's third season closes with an evening of stories that fall under the category of "The Whole Enchildada," May 5 at the Sixth Floor Studio Theatre in the Wyly Theatre
26. One Thirty Productions presents Ronald Harwood's Equally Divided at the Bath House Cultural Center, May 7-24
27. Tarrant Actors Regional Theater returns with The Curious Savage, May 9-25 at the Sanders Theater in the Fort Worth Community Arts Center
28. Churchmouse Productions does J.R. Rogers' White People, May 8-25 at the Bath House Cultural Center
29. Jubilee Theatre in Fort Worth does August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, May 9-June 8
30. Theatre Arlington continues its 40th season with the popular musical Nunsense, May 9-June 1

» For complete listings of what's happening on North Texas stages, click on the calendar icon at the top right of the page. Once there, you can click the red "Search the Calendar" box, and search for listings by dates, performance type, the presenting company, titles or descriptions.