THEATER

March 01, 2012 Last Updated: March 01, 2012 02:07 PM Weekend Entertainment

Comtra Theatre, Route 19 in Cranberry Township, presents “Pinocchio” Friday through March 17. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets are $12. Call 724-773-9896.

“Oliver Twist” will be staged with Victorian paper toys, music and voice actors March 17 with an 11 a.m. show for children and a 2 p.m. show for children and adults followed by a half-hour talk on the history of toy theater, both at the Kittanning Public Library, 280 N. Jefferson St., Kittanning. Call 724-543-1383 to register.Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center in Midland, Beaver County, will host the British farce “It Runs in the Family” Friday through Sunday; the dance show “Pop! (And the Art of Dance)” March 9 to 11, and a children's play based on the book “The Phantom Tollbooth” March 24. Ticket information is available by calling 724-643-9004 or online at www.lppac.org.New Kensington Civic Theatre presents “Drinking Habits,” a comedy in two acts, March 8 to 11 at the Penn State Forum Theatre, Carl Avenue and George Street, New Kensington. Curtain is 8 p.m. March 8 to 10 and at 2 p.m. March 11. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for senior citizens and students. Call 724-339-3140.

Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret presents Butler native Marlana Dunn in “Ruthless! The Musical” through May 6 at the theater at 655 Penn Ave. Dunn portrays Judy Denmark/Ginger DelMarco in this musical mystery. Also part of the show is Buffalo Elementary School sixth grader Victoria Huston. Tickets are $34.75 to $44.75 and available by calling 412-325-1582 or visiting the website www.pittsburghclo.org.Pittsburgh Public Theater presents the Pittsburgh premiere of “Freud’s Last Session,” a new play about an imagined meeting between outspoken atheist Sigmund Freud and Christian writer C.S. Lewis. The play opens today and runs through April 1 at the Public’s O’Reilly Theater, 621 Penn Ave. The performance schedule is 8 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays, with some exceptions. Tickets are $22 to $55; students and guests age 26 and younger with valid ID pay $15.75. Call 412-316-1600 or visit ppt.org.