Tickets remain available for the two performances today of “Avenue Q,” the 2004 Tony Award winner for best musical, best score and best book. It has been called an adult rendition of “Sesame Street.” It carries the following warning: full puppet nudity.
Performances are at 2 and 7 p.m. at The Whiting in the Flint Cultural Center. Tickets are $24-$65. Call (810) 237-7333.
Also at The Whiting this week are two performances of “The Secret Life of Bees,” a collaboration with the American Place Theatre in New York City.
In a professionally staged theatrical adaptation of the best-selling book, a young girl’s search for the truth about her mother leads her to three beekeeping sisters and the discovery of the real meaning of family.
Performances are at 7 p.m. Tuesday and 8 p.m. Saturday. All tickets are $30 for this presentation suitable for the entire family.
The whole family will get a kick out of comedian Joel Tacey at 2 p.m. today at the Davison Area Library, 203 E. Fourth St. Call (810) 653-2022.
Tuesday’s Armchair Traveler film at the Flint Public Library, 1026 E. Kearsley St., is part two of “Alaska’s Inside Passage.” The lights dim at 12:15 p.m.
Fans of author Nicole Mones will want to latch onto a copy of “The Last Chinese Chef” and join the discussion at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Flint Public Library’s Adult Evening Book Club.
Mones uses Chinese culinary history, language and tantalizing descriptions of fine cuisine to show how food can both nourish the body and the soul.
Wednesday’s free noontime film at the Flint Institute of Arts is the last in the series about masters of the Italian Renaissance. The subject of the 43-minute film is Piero della Francesca.
More book talk will take place at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Genesee Valley Center branch of the Genesee District Library. The book is “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain.
Showcase Cinemas West, 1591 S. Graham Road in Flint, has been broadcasting Metropolitan Opera live simulcasts. There is one more, “Armida,” scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday. Details at metopera.org/HDLive