Your guide to entertainment in Charlotte in the week ahead
Comedy
Thomas Davis Defending Dreams Foundation Benefit
Mon 1.4 7 p.m. The Comedy Zone, 900 NC Music Factory Blvd. $25. www.cltcomedyzone.com.
Hickory native Jon Reep – a former winner of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” – headlines the inaugural fundraiser for the Panthers’ outside linebacker and his charitable foundation. The show is rated PG-18.
Music
‘Schumanniana’
Tue 1.5 Noon and 6 p.m. Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, 420 S. Tryon St. $12. www.bechtler.org.
Pianist Bruce Murray, violinist Chloe Kiffer and cellist Jonathan Lewis play Robert Schumann’s Violin Sonata No. 1, Piano Trio No. 1 and Adagio and Allegro in A Flat.
Movie
‘The Revenant’
Wed 1.6 In the 1820s, a frontiersman named Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
WIN PASSES: To enter a drawing for a pair of passes to the promo screening at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in south Charlotte, email CLT@charlotteobserver.com with “The Revenant” in the subject line and your name, age and phone number in the body. Deadline is 11:59 p.m. Sunday.
Motorsports
Monster Jam
Fri 1.8 7:30 p.m. (also 2 and 7:30 p.m. Jan. 9). Time Warner Cable Arena, 333 E. Trade St. $20-$50 (kids’ tickets $10). www.timewarnercablearena.com.
This event will feature eight different trucks (each approximately 12 feet tall by 12 feet wide), including Captain’s Curse, Doomsday, El Toro Loco, Grave Digger, Hot Wheels, Mad Scientist and MM Dalmatian.
Music
Charlotte Symphony Orchestra
Fri 1.8 8 p.m. (also Jan. 9). Belk Theater, 130 N. Tryon St. $25.50-$89.50. www.charlottesymphony.org.
Cellist Cicely Parnas and guest conductor Han-Na Chang take on Sibelius’ First Symphony, Saint-Saens’ First Piano Concerto and Ravel’s Valses Nobles et Sentimentales.
This story was originally published December 31, 2015 at 1:52 PM with the headline "Your guide to entertainment in Charlotte in the week ahead."