ONE-WOMAN SHOW What a powerful performance former Rockette Joanna Rush gives in “Kick: It’s Not How High, It’s How Strong!,’’ the one-woman show she wrote, at the Burgoyne Theatre in Lowell March 3-4.
Nominated for a 2016 Off Broadway Alliance Award, Rush portrays 13 characters. Dancing and spinning the tale of her life as a Rockette, Broadway dancer, and two-time survivor of rape, her tale provides a great lesson of empowerment and survival.
Performances are at 8 p.m. at 40 Paige St. Tickets are $25. A free matinee will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 4, for high school students, members of Girls Inc., and various rape crisis centers in the Merrimack Valley, followed by a talk with Rush after the show.
To learn more, visit imagetheater.com or call 978-441-0102.
CLASSIC COMEDY The Great House of Castle Hill on the Crane Estate in Ipswich proves the property is more than a summer fling. Laugh your winter blues away with Noel Coward’s 1941 comedy “Blithe Spirit.’’
Watch socialite and novelist Charles Condomine as he is haunted by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira, who tries to disrupt Charles’s marriage to his second wife, Ruth.
This much-revived classic will be staged at 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, March 17-18 and 24-25, and at 6 p.m. Sundays, March 19 and 26.
Tickets are $24 for members of the Trustees of Reservations, $30 for nonmembers. Visit thetrustees.org/blithespirit, e-mail pgarro@thetrustees.org, or call 978-356–4351, ext. 4050. Castle Hill on the Crane Estate is located at 290 Argilla Road.
BOOK THIS DINNER Start reading now if you want to join the Eastern Point Lit House Book Club in Gloucester when it meets March 19 at Duckworth’s Bistrot to discuss “Old Filth’’ by Jane Gardam.
This isn’t your grandma’s book club. Fine wine and fresh, seasonal appetizers are served while award-winning playwright Laura Harrington moderates an equally delicious discussion. The author of two books, Harrington also teaches playwriting at MIT.
Seating is limited. The ticket price of $45 (nonrefundable) includes wine/beer, appetizers, and a great discussion.
The event begins at 5 p.m. Duckworth’s Bistrot is located at 197 East Main St.
For questions and to purchase tickets, e-mail easternpointlithouse@gmail.com or visit the Eastern Point Lit House shop, 261 Main St. (Do not call Duckworth’s Bistrot.)
URBAN ART Some people look at industrial materials and see just that, Lowell artist Markus Haala finds inspiration.
Rebar, wood, concrete, and gravel form the industrial palette from which Haala creates sculptures and prints. It’s all included in “Urban Jazz,’’ Haala’s exhibit showing through March 4 at the Northern Essex Community College’s Linda Hummel-Shea ArtSpace in the Bentley Library, 100 Elliot St. on the Haverhill campus.
The exhibit is free and open to the publicduring library hours. For more information, visit necc.mass.edu and click on the library link.
JAM BAND MUSIC One song, and you’ll find out why Jerry Garcia nicknamed Melvin Seals “Master of the Universe’’ during the 18 years Seals spun magic on his Hammond B-3 organplaying in the Jerry Garcia Band.
Seals and the Jerry Garcia Band perform blues, funk, and jazz — with a dash of R&B and gospel —at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, at The Cabot in Beverly, 286 Cabot St.
Tickets range from $22.50 to $36.50. Purchase online at thecabot.org or call 978-927-3100.
Kathy Shiels Tully can be reached at kathy@kathyshielstully.com.
