BUTLER TWP — The Butler Musical Theatre Guild presents “South Pacific” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Succop Theater at Butler County Community College.

Tickets are $17 and are available at May's Music Shoppe, 247 E. Jefferson St., from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Call 724-287-8243 for information.

Butler Little Theatre closes out its season with “Is He Dead?” a comedy featuring romantic deception and mistaken identities, May 11 to 19.Curtain is at 8:15 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $10. Call 724-287-6781 or visit www.bltgroup.org.

SLIPPERY ROCK — The 11th Kaleidoscope Arts Festival concludes Sunday at Slippery Rock University. The schedule includes the playwriting competition winners as part of the theater department's Brave New Plays tonight in Miller Auditorium, and a Taiko Drums performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Swope Music Hall.A complete schedule is available at www.sru.edu.

Butler High School's all-school play will be “Appointment with Death” by Agatha Christie at 7:30 p.m. May 4 and 5 in the senior high auditorium.Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door.Call 724-214-3200, Ext. 5265, for information.

EVANS CITY — The American Revolution on the frontier will be remembered from 4 to 7 p.m. May 12 at Providence Plantation, a center for living history presentations about 18th-century frontier life at 300 Textor Hill Road.The program will include a guided history tour with emphasis on agriculture, Scottish and Irish fiddle music, and a period candlelight dinner.Cost is $30 for adults and $15 for children younger than 12.Call 724-538-8818 or visit www.providenceplantationpa.org.

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra will finish off the season with a concert featuring dancers from Attack Theater at 2 p.m. May 5 at Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave.Also, Inori Sakai, winner of the PYSO Concerto Competition, will perform.The concert is free, but tickets are required for admission. To download tickets, visit www.pyso.us.

PITTSBURGH — Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, One Schenley Park, debuts its summer flower show: Fountains of Youth, May 5. Hours will be 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and until 10 p.m. Fridays.Admission is $12 for adults; $11 for senior citizens and students with ID; $9 for children ages 2 to 18; and free for children younger than 2.Call 412-622-6914 or visit phipps.conservatory.org.

The Butler County Symphony Association will hold its first garden tourJune 16. This self-guided tour will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.Six area gardens are included. A reception will be held at the Meridian Gift Shop Gazebo, 298 Meridian Road.The tour is a fundraiser for the association. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 on the day of the tour. Tickets will be available after May 1st at the symphony office, 259 S. Main St. between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Mondays through Fridays; Meridian Gift Shop, 298 Meridian Road; and Smith's Florist, 136 N. Main St.For information, call 724-283-1402.

ZELIENOPLE — A Circle of Friends Choirs has announced its upcoming performance schedule.The community group, which performs a mix of secular and religious music, will work with several organizations to raise funds for various causes during the first two weekends in May.Directed by David English of Evans City, the 38-member group is a nonprofit organization that employs the talents of non-professional singers and musicians.The concert schedule is: 7:30 p.m. May 4 at Grace Church, Harmony; 7:30 p.m. May 5 at Saint Andrews United Presbyterian Church; 6:30 p.m. May 6 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Evans City; 7:30 p.m. May 11 at Hope Lutheran Church, Cranberry Township; and 3 p.m. May 13 at Connoquenessing United Methodist Church.These concerts are free but donations are encouraged to support the charitable causes.For more information, send e-mail to acofchoirs@gmail.com.

ALLEGHENY TWP, Westmoreland County — Freeport Theatre Festival will celebrate its 23rd summer season with two shows.As the first production, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be staged at 8 p.m. July 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21 and 22.The second production will be “The Odd Couple, The Female Version” with shows at 8 p.m. Aug. 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26.The theater is at the Steele Farm on White Cloud Road, two miles south of Freeport off Route 356.Tickets are $12 for general admission and $10 for senior citizens and students.Call 724-295-1934 or visit www.freeporttheatrefestival.org.