Your guide to entertainment in Charlotte in the week ahead
Movie
‘Pitch Perfect 2’
Tue 5.12 After a humiliating command performance at Lincoln Center, the Barden Bellas enter an international competition that no American group has ever won in order to regain their status and right to perform.
GET PASSES: “Pitch Perfect 2” (rated PG-13) opens May 15, but a promotional screening of the musical comedy will take place in south Charlotte at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The Charlotte Observer is giving away 80 admit-two passes to this screening; pick up one beginning at 8 a.m. Friday in the lobby of the Charlotte Observer building, 600 S. Tryon St., while supplies last.
Music
Ciara
Tue 5.12 8 p.m. Fillmore Charlotte, 1000 NC Music Factory Blvd. $27.50. www.livenation.com.
The sultry, Grammy-winning R&B singer’s just-released sixth studio album, “Jackie,” is her emotional coming-out party in the wake of last year’s ugly breakup with former fiance Future.
Theater
‘Buyer and Cellar’
Thu 5.14 8 p.m. (also various performances through May 23). Duke Energy Theater, Spirit Square, 345 N. College St. $22-$24. www.queencitytheatre.com.
Queen City Theatre Company does Jonathan Tolins’ one-man play about a struggling actor hired to work in the shopping mall in the basement of Barbra Streisand’s home. Joe Rux stars.
Music
‘Handel and the Royals’
Fri 5.15 7:30 p.m. Knight Theater, 430 S. Tryon St. $29. www.charlottesymphony.org.
Oratorio Singers bid farewell to Scott Allen Jarrett with a KnightSounds night of Handel, Mozart, J.C. Bach and Haydn. Videography of fireworks accompanies Handel’s Royal Fireworks Music.
Theater
‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
Fri 5.15 8 p.m. (also various performances through May 31). Theatre Charlotte, 501 Queens Road. $27. www.theatrecharlotte.org.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice sung-through musical about Jesus, Judas, Mary Magdalene and the rest gets a revival at Theatre Charlotte.
This story was originally published May 7, 2015 at 2:31 PM with the headline "Your guide to entertainment in Charlotte in the week ahead."