By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net

"Children of a Lesser God" opens this week at Armour Street Theatre.

The home finale for Davidson College’s women’s basketball team, performances of “Metamorphoses” and “Children of a Lesser God,” and a celebration honoring one of the area’s oldest communities highlight the available activities in the area this week. The week also includes a fund-raising Jazz and Art Fest Friday night at Davidson’s Homewood Suites. And on Saturday afternoon, the town of Cornelius will cap its Black History Month activities with an event honoring Smithville, whose roots in the 1880s make it one of the area’s oldest communities. Read the full story

By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net

The return — albeit a brief one — of the American Civil War, along with Davidson College’s annual Green Ball, a performance of an Oscar Wilde classic and the national TV spotlight shining on the Wildcats’ men’s basketball team, all highlight this weekend’s activities in our area. Read the full story

Have you ever wanted to know the basics of sign language? Davidson Community Players, with a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, will offer a free American Sign Language workshop on Saturday, Feb. 18, in Davidson.

Lyndi Patton-Gura, a professional sign language interpreter and actress, will lead a basic introduction to ASL, covering simple phrases, finger spelling, numbers and colors. She’ll also share information about deaf culture. Read the full story

Off Main Jazz group plays Wednesday night at Flatiron Kitchen + Taphouse in Davidson.

By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net

One of Oscar Wilde’s most-famous works, a performance by an award-winning quartet and a nationally-televised game involving Davidson College’s men’s basketball team highlight a week’s worth of events and activities in the area this week. Read the full story

By BILL KISER
DavidsonNews.net

Dancing and … ping pong? That’s the theme of a unique fundraising event going on Saturday at W.A. Hough High School in Cornelius this weekend. Saturday night’s Ping Pong Ball combines a dance for teenagers (and teens at heart) with a ping-pong tournament to benefit Special Olympics Mecklenburg County. That’s not the only fundraiser going on in the area this weekend. Read the full story

Davidson Community Players will hold open auditions this Sunday and Monday, Feb. 12-13, for its June 2012 production of the Gershwin classic “Crazy for You.”

Auditions will be Sunday at 2 p.m. and Monday at 7 p.m., at Davidson Community Players’ Armour Street Theatre, 307 Armour St., Davidson.  Callbacks will be Tuesday, Feb. 14, invitation only. Read the full story