• The performing arts series features "A Midsummer Night's Dream" presented by The National Players at 8 p.m. Oct. 30 in the Succop Theater. Single tickets are $18 in advance or $22 at the door; students pay $10. Call 724-284-8505 or online at www.bc3.edu/theater.

• BC3's Mary Hulton Phillips Gallery is presenting the art show "Drawings and Paintings" by David Ludwick, an area artist and teacher known for his impressionistic landscape paintings and pastel drawings, in the gallery in the Science, Technology and Cultural Center Building adjacent to the Succop Theater.

The exhibit will continue through Nov. 22.

The gallery is open during Succop Theater performances. For a list, visit www.bc3.edu/theater. The exhibit can also be viewed by appointment by contacting Cultural Center director Larry Stock at larry.stockbc3.edu or the artist at david.ludwickbc3.edu or call either of them at BC3 at 724-287-8711.

• SRU AmeriCorps hosts a showing of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" in conjunction with the university's summer book program, at 8 p.m., Oct. 28 in the University Union. Admission is free with the donation of a nonperishable food item to the Feed My Sheep Food Pantry in Slippery Rock. For more information, call Susan Serge at 724-738-2273, or Laurel Dagnon, AmeriCorps program director, at 724-738-2030.• The Ailey II dance company will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29 in Miller Auditorium as part of SRU's Performing Arts Series. Tickets range from $8 to $20.Other performances in the series include "Scrooge in Concert" at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2 and "From Galway to Broadway" at 7:30 p.m. March 18.Call 724-738-2018.

Pitt's Music on the Edge presents the Cikada Ensemble from Norway at 8 p.m. Saturday in Bellefield Hall auditorium, 315 S. Bellefield Ave., Oakland. Call 412-624-4125 or visit www.music.pitt.edu/events.