TODAY

Stage

Boulder’s Ami Dayan reprises his one-man adaptation of “A Tale of a Tiger,” a poignant and comedic parable of survival, humanity and transformation, in a performance benefitting the Dairy Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Friday, and 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Dairy’s Gordon Gamm Theatre, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $15-$25; thedairy.org.

Documentary

While the new Dylan biopic is getting a lot of buzz, you can check out the real-life Bob when the Boedecker screens D.A. Pennebaker’s legendary documentary “Don’t Look Back,” in which the filmmaker followed the former folk singer on his 1965 tour, at 8:30 p.m. Friday at the cinema located at 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $12; thedairy.org.

Funk

Three-piece outfit 50 Shades of Blue will serve up a funkalicious gumbo of music at 6 p.m. Friday at Bricks on Main, 471 Main St., Longmont. Visit bricksretail.com for more details.

WEEKEND

Stories

Boulder’s Stories on Stage teams up with the folks at Buntport Theatre to perform stories that call out some of today’s worst phonies, fakers and fibbers, when “Big Fat Liars” takes place at 2 p.m. Sunday at Su Teatro, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver; $26; storiesonstage.org.

Armored combat

And now for something completely different, The Colorado Wardens are a medieval combat group that will present a public display of the competitive fight-sport at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $27; axs.com.

Strings

Boulder’s renowned masters of strings The Takacs Quartet perform works by Ludwig Van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and Stephen Hough in person at 4 p.m. Sunday, and 7:30 p.m. Monday, in the Grusin Music Hall at the Imig Music Building at CU, 1020 18th St.; $45-$65; and online at 4 p.m. Sunday through Jan. 20; $22. Visit cupresents.org for details.

FUTURE

Tribute

International tribute act MANIA — The ABBA Tribute lets you be the dancing queen when the band plays at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder; $48-$84; axs.com.

Keys

It’s four hands and two pianos when L&V Piano Duo perform works by Roberto Di Marino, Astor Piazzolla, and Sergei Rachmaninoff in concert at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder; $20-$35; thedairy.org.

FREE

Improv

A group of improv actors take your suggestions and create stories on the spot when “MAD LIBrarians” take the stage at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Boulder Library’s Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder; free; boulderlibrary.org.

KIDS

Stage

Jesters Dinner Theatre opens its family-friendly musical “Shrek,” based on the popular animated film, Friday, and the show plays various dates through March 30 at the theater located at 224 Main St., Longmont; $19-$55; jesterstheatre.com.