Your guide to Friday’s entertainment in Charlotte
Music
Gershwin & Copland
8 p.m. Belk Theater, 130 N. Tryon St. $29.50-$99.50. www.charlottesymphony.org.
Pianist William Wolfram plays Gershwin’s famous “Rhapsody in Blue” and his not-famous “Rhapsody No. 2.” Andrew Grams guest-conducts those and Copland’s “Our Town” suite and “Rodeo” ballet music.
Theater
‘Casa Valentina’
8 p.m. (also Saturday and Feb. 23-27). Duke Energy Theater, Spirit Square, 345 N. College St. $16-$25. www.blumenthalarts.org.
Queen City Theatre Company gives a regional premiere to Harvey Fierstein’s comedy-drama (based on a true story) about a Catskills resort in the early 1960s where heterosexual men dressed and acted as women.
Music
Big Head Todd & The Monsters
8 p.m. Fillmore Charlotte, 1000 NC Music Factory Blvd. $27.50. www.livenation.com.
The Colorado rock band helped welcome the Denver Broncos home during the recent post-Super Bowl parade, and remains a consistent live force more than 20 years after its commercial breakthrough, “Sister Sweetly.”
This story was originally published February 15, 2016 at 3:59 PM with the headline "Your guide to Friday’s entertainment in Charlotte."