To do list

July 29, 2011|By June Wulff, Globe Staff

PICK OF THE DAY All that folk-jazz Pianist and composer Ara Sarkissian is the brains behind the Musaner Folk-Jazz Ensemble that blends jazz orchestration with Armenian folk music. New pieces are on tonight’s program in Cambridge. 7:30 p.m. $15. Regattabar, Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St., Harvard Square, Cambridge. 617-395-7757. www.regattabarjazz.com

TODAY Head west The season is short, folks, so tell your boss you’re leaving early and head to Lenox, where tonight’s Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Hans Graf. Orion Weiss will perform. 8:30 p.m. $9-$115, 50 percent discount on lawn tickets for college and grad students, free lawn tickets under age 17. Tanglewood, 197 West St., Lenox. 888-266-1200. www.tanglewood.org

Walk and dance Rockport is the perfect venue for “Widow’s Walk,’’ one of several pieces at the Windhover Dance Concert with Dusan Tynek Dance Theatre of NYC and Forty Steps Dance of Nahant. This piece performed by the New York troupe was inspired by the architectural feature on 19th-century houses where mariners’ wives are believed to have watched for ships and waited for loved ones to return. 8 p.m. through July 31 (limited indoor seating if raining). $20, $16 students and seniors. Windhover Center for the Performing Arts, 257 Granite St., Rockport. 978-546-3611. www.windhover.org

TOMORROW You ain’t nothin’ but a hound … Three actors, 16 characters, silly wigs, fake beards, and a zany adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic. Shakespeare & Company’s “Hound of the Baskervilles’’ puts the Sherlock Holmes tale on its tail and spins it around. July 30 at 7:30 p.m. (through Sept. 4). $15-$65, $85 premium seating (includes early seating in A section, dessert, and wine). Shakespeare & Company, 70 Kemble St., Lenox. 413-637-3353. www.shakespeare.org

Plot among plots Gloucester Stage artistic director Eric C. Engel is at the helm of “Last Day’’ by Richard Vetere. This mysterious love story is set in a Long Island cemetery. July 30 at 3 and 8 p.m. (through Aug. 7). $37, $32 seniors. Gloucester Stage Company, 267 East Main St., Gloucester. 978-281-4433. www.gloucesterstage.org

SUNDAYFunny funny guy You’ll probably get some topical talk, lots of silliness, self-deprecating humor, and more from Craig Ferguson, who started as a drummer for UK punk bands, bartended in a Glasgow pub, acted, and now hosts “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.’’ July 31 at 6 p.m. $69. The Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St., Boston. 800-745-3000. www.thewilbur.com

EDITOR’S NOTE: An earlier version of this story included information about a performance by pianist Leon Fleisher at Tanglewood. Due to illness, Fleisher will not perform.

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