The upcoming show in the Performing Arts Series at BCCC will feature the Renaissance City Winds musical group at 8 p.m. Saturday. Individual tickets cost $15 in advance and $17 at the door; students pay $10. Call 724-284-8505 or 888-826-2829 or order tickets online at www.bc3.edu.

•Award-winning author Eve Ensler is scheduled to give a free lecture at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Advanced Technology and Science Hall. Her talk will focus on global efforts to stop violence, particularly against women and girls. Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" has been translated into more than 45 languages.• The SRU Chosen Generation Gospel Choir will perform "Celebration of Gospel" at 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the University Union.

Celebrating 25 years, Pitt's Department of Theatre Arts and Pitt Repertory Theatre present "The American Clock," by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller, juxtaposing the Baum family's uprooted life since the stock market crash with multiple vignettes showcasing how others are coping with the Great Depression, through March 2<B> </B>in the Charity Randall Theatre. For information call 412-624-7529 or visit the Web site, www.pitt.edu/~play.• A collection of treasures from Pitt's Kuntu Repertory Theatre will be displayed in "Telling Our Stories" from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Friday in the lobby of the City County Building, 414 Grant St. downtown.

CMU's School of Drama presents August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson," portraying a struggle between two siblings set in Depression-era Pittsburgh, opening today and continuing through Saturday at the Philip Chosky Theater. Tickets are $22 and $25. Call 412-268-2407 between noon and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets can be purchased online at www.drama.cmu.edu.

Theatre Westminster will present "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in four performances through Sunday in Beeghly Theater. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. through Saturday with a Sunday matinee at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $5 for non-Westminster students and are available by calling 724-946-724.

Being staged in the Studio Theatre is the children's play "Androcles and the Lion," a comedy with a musical score. Showtimes are 7 p.m. today through Saturday, with a matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and Geneva students, and $2 for children younger than 12. Call 724-847-5099.