Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Continues through June 2

Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST)  - NoDa

Price: $18.00 - $28.00 Catherine, a troubled young woman who has spent years caring for her father, a brilliant but unstable mathematician. Following his death, she must deal with the arrival of her estranged sister and the attentions of her father’s former student who hopes to find valuable work in the notebooks he left behind. A burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: how much of her father’s madness —or genius — did she inherit?

Thu., May 9, 8 p.m., Fri., May 10, 8 p.m., Sat., May 11, 8 p.m., Thu., May 16, 8 p.m., Fri., May 17, 8 p.m., Sat., May 18, 8 p.m., Thu., May 23, 8 p.m., Fri., May 24, 8 p.m., Sat., May 25, 8 p.m., Sun., May 26, 2:30 p.m., Thu., May 30, 8 p.m., Fri., May 31, 8 p.m., Sat., June 1, 8 p.m. and Sun., June 2, 2:30 p.m.

Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST)  - NoDa

Price: $18-$28 Playwright David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play about a troubled you woman who must balance the tasks of taking care of her ailing father, a brilliant mathematician. Upon her father’s death she faces the task of being confronted by her father’s former student and an estranged sister that causes her to question her own sanity.

Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Continues through June 18

Pura Vida Worldly Art  - NoDa

Price: $180.00 This workshop will cover the “basics” for the artist working in oils. Students will delve into techniques and tools, i.e., color, value, edges and paint quality, and their relationship to the aesthetic considerations of the surface. Concept, composition, the artist’s /painter’s psychology, and its ef­fect on one’s canvas will be possible avenues of exploration. Students will work from the live model for this three day workshop (one night a week for three weeks). This will be a laid back workshop, students are welcome to B.Y.O. beer, wine, coffee, tea, etc.

June 20-July 13

Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST)  - NoDa

Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Continues through July 13

Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST)  - NoDa

Price: $28 adult; $22 senior (60+); $18 student. CAST presents ASSASSINS, one of Stephen Sondheim’s most interesting and memorable musicals, winner of the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a Musical. ASSASSINS opens in a fairground shooting gallery where, amid flashing lights, a collection of misfits is gathered. The proprietor of the game entices the crowd to play, promising that all their problems will be solved by killing a President. Among the infamous crowd is the who’s who of assassins and would-be assassins including John Hinckley Jr., Squeaky Fromme, Sara Jane Moore, John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald!

First Wednesday of every month, 6 p.m.

NoDa Brewing Company  - NoDa

Price: free Work on your own craft while enjoying a craft beer from NoDa Brewing Company. Bring your latest lap or table project and get your craft on with Charlotte's group of professional crafters, Crown Town Handmade. Spreading a love of all things craft to the Crown Town! Always the first Wednesday of every month.

First Friday of every month, 7 p.m.

Wine Up  - NoDa

Local improv with a global impact. Improv Charlotte (formerly Sharazad) will perform long form and short form comedic improv games. Proceeds benefit local and international charities. For more information, visit www.improvcharlotte.org.