Happenings

CONCERTS

Bach, Beethoven, and Brunch, longtime favorite series for classical music lovers and brunch fans, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Sundays through Aug. 15, lawn of Mellon Park, Fifth and Shady avenues, Point Breeze/Squirrel Hill, Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition, Bagel Factory, WQED-FM, 412-255-2493.

Stars at Riverview Jazz Series, features Pittsburgh’s premier jazz musicians, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturdays through Aug. 27, Riverview Park, Riverview Avenue, North Side, BNY Mellon and WDUQ, 412-255-2493.

EXHIBITIONS

The Warhol, Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, exhibition of contemporary art dealing with subject of the male athlete, through Aug. 7; Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, through Aug. 7; The Word of God(ess): Chitra Ganesh’s Tales of Amnesia, through Sept. 4, 117 Sandusky St., North Side, 412-237-8300, www.warhol.org.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Architecture Explorations, through Aug. 12; Pittsburgh Biennial, through Sept. 18; Ragnar Kjartansson: Song, through Oct. 9; Hand Made: Contemporary Craft in Ceramic, Glass, and Wood, ongoing, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland, 412-622-3131, www.cmoa.org.

Heinz History Center, Ben Franklin: In Search of a Better World, exploring the personal side of one of our founding fathers, through July 31; America’s Best Weekly: A Century of The Pittsburgh Courier, through Oct. 2; 1212 Smallman St., Strip District, 412-454-6000, www.heinzhistorycenter.org.

The Frick Art & Historical Center, Fin de Siécle Prints: Art Nouveau on Paper, through Sept. 11, docent tours of exhibition available at 2 p.m. Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, free and open to the public, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.thefrickpittsburgh.org.

LECTURE

“Art Nouveau and the Ubiquity of Style,” Sarah Hall, Frick Art Museum director of curatorial affairs, 10 a.m. Aug. 12, Lexington Education Center, The Frick Art & Historical Center, 7227 Reynolds St., Point Breeze, 412-371-0600, www.thefrickpittsburgh.org.

OPERA/THEATER/DANCE

The Sound of Music, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic, July 19-31, Benedum Center,
719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh CLO, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org, Pitt Arts Cheap Seats Program, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare’s most-beloved comedies, directed by Karla Boos, July 28-Aug. 21, Quantum Theatre, West Penn Hospital Foundation Research Facility, 720 Gross St., Bloomfield, 888-718-4253, www.quantumtheatre.com, Pitt Arts Cheap Seats Program, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

Jesus Christ Superstar, an Andrew Lloyd Webber favorite, Aug. 2-14, Benedum Center,
719 Liberty Ave., Downtown, Pittsburgh CLO, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org, Pitt Arts Cheap Seats Program, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Aug. 4-27, Charity Randall Theatre within the Stephen Foster Memorial, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, 412-394-3353, www.picttheatre.org, Pitt Arts Cheap Seats Program, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

August in August, scenes and monologues from Hill District native and Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s depiction of the African American experience in the 20th century, Aug. 18-20, August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 980 Liberty Ave., Downtown, 412-456-6666, www.pgharts.org.

The Marvelous Wonderettes by Roger Bean, a return to the 1950s and ’60s, through Oct. 2, CLO Cabaret, 655 Penn Ave., Downtown, 412-281-3973, www.pittsburghclo.org, PITT ARTS Cheap Seats, 412-624-4498, www.pittarts.pitt.edu.

PITT PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSES

Andrew Samuelsson, School of Medicine’s Center for Neuroscience/Neurobiology Graduate Program, 10 a.m. July 21, “Dissecting the Registration and Processing of Olfactory Events During General Anesthesia,” 1495 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower.

Addie Weaver, School of Social Work, 1 p.m. July 21, “Is Family Therapy Effective, Acceptable, and Sustainable for Mothers and Children?: An Examination of Structural Family Therapy Implemented Within a Semi-Rural Community Mental Setting,” 2117 Cathedral of Learning.

Tina-Marie Assi, Graduate School of Public Health’s Department of Epidemiology, 3 p.m. July 22, “Impacts of Vaccine Logistics on Vaccine Epidemiology,” First-Floor Parkvale Annex Conference Room.

Serah Choi, School of Medicine’s Molecular Pharmacology Graduate Program, 10 a.m. July 25, “Preclinical Studies on ATM Kinase Inhibitors as Anti-Cancer Agents,” 1395 Starzl Biomedical Science Tower.

Salvatore Cherra, School of Medicine’s Cellular and Molecular Pathology Graduate Program, 2 p.m. July 25, “Understanding the Interaction Between LRRK2 and PINK1: Implications for Parkinson’s Disease,” 1104 Scaife Conference Room.

Hans Lottenbach, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Philosophy, 2 p.m. July 25, “Happiness, Approbation, and Rational Choice Studies in Empiricist Moral Philosophy,” 1001B Cathedral of Learning.

Lidio Meireles, Joint CMU-Pitt PhD Program in Computational Biology, 9 a.m. July 26,“Rational Design of Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Protein-Protein Interactions: Application to the Oncogenic cMyc-Max Interaction,” 3073 Biomedical Science Tower 3.

Jacqueline E. Townsend, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biological Sciences, 2 p.m. July 28, “A New Spin on Specificity: EcoRI Endonuclease-DNA Complexes Studied by Thermodynamics and Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy,” A219B Langley Hall.

Eva M. Goellner, School of Medicine’s Molecular Pharmacology Graduate Program, 1 p.m. July 29, “Demonstrating Functional Crosstalk Between DNA Base Excision Repair and Cellular Bioenergetics: A Strategy for the Treatment of Chemotherapy Resistant Glioblastoma,” 1395 Biomedical Science Tower.

Wendy M. Martelle, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Linguistics, 10 a.m. Aug. 2, “Testing the Aspect Hypothesis in L2 Russian,” 2809 Cathedral of Learning.

Ping Zhang, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biological Sciences, 1 p.m. Aug. 2, “Signaling From Depolarization to Alternative Splicing: Identification of Molecular Links Mediating Inducible Exon Skipping,” A219B Langley Hall.

Zhen Jiang, Graduate School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics, 11 a.m. Aug. 9, “Joint Modeling of Multivariate Ordinal Longitudinal Outcome,” A622 Parran Hall.

Laura Macía-Vergara, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Anthropology, 10 a.m. Aug. 19, “Dealing with Grievances: The Latino Experience in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,” 3106 Posvar Hall.

Brett Caloia, School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Philosophy, 3 p.m. Aug. 22, “Self-Knowledge, Rationality, and Interpretation,” 1001B Cathedral of Learning.