What to see, do and hear: Atlanta Opera, Beacon Dance, the Carlos and more

MUSIC

The Atlanta Opera concludes its staging of The Pirates of Penzance with shows Friday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. For those who are reluctant to be in a crowd, the opera is allowing ticket holders to stream the performance live from home. ArtsATL critic Jonathan Shipley described it as an “amuse bouche of a show . . .  Sweet, short and lovely.” Audience members must show proof of vaccination or a negative test given by a healthcare professional no older than 48 hours. Masks are required. Tickets start at $45.

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After two weeks of performing in an empty Symphony Hall for two virtual concerts scheduled to appear online February 4, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will again perform before a live audience Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. The program features Sibelius, Grieg and Tchaikovsky under the baton of David Danzmayr with guest pianist Saleem Ashkar. Audience members over the age of 12 must show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test taken within 48 hours of the performance. Masks are also required. Tickets start at $23.

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DANCE

D. Patton White, artistic/administrative director of Beacon Dance, dipped his toe in the water of filmmaking a few months ago — literally. He created a dance film set in and around the Chattahoochee River as part of the company’s ongoing Mapping Project. It’s called Adrift through the Interstices and it investigates themes of boundaries and flow. Not only is it beautifully lit and shot, but it’s free and still available online.

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ART+DESIGN

Born and raised in the South, the American photographer William Eggleston has been instrumental in making color photography an art form worthy of gallery display. An exhibit of his vibrant and colorful photos of cars, storefronts, buildings and more opens Friday at Jackson Fine Art. Visits by appointment only, Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Masks and social distancing required.

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The Swan Coach House Gallery is presenting an artist talk about its current exhibit untangling a little word, on Saturday at 3 p.m. followed by a reception from 4-7 p.m. Learn more about this exhibit of collaborative sculptural works by Atlanta-based artists Rosa Duffy and Y. Malik Jalal, curated by Logan Lockner. Their process and material choices evoke histories of manual labor and vernacular craft, and racial inequalities among the industrial working class and the art world itself. Masks required in the gallery.

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It’s dark, it’s urgent and it’s thought provoking. The Carlos Museum’s new exhibit And I Must Scream addresses some of the world’s most pressing crises — corruption and human rights violations, displacement, environmental destruction, the pandemic and renewal. Opening Saturday, the exhibit is a call to action around these interconnected issues. Ten local, national and international contemporary artists are represented. The show was developed by Dr. Amanda H. Hellman, the museum’s curator of African art. Masks required.

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THEATER

Having not staged a full-scale production in nearly two years due to Covid-19, Horizon Theatre launches its 38th season on Friday with Every Brilliant Thing. In Duncan Macmillan’s script, a 7-year-old boy responds to his mother’s attempted suicide by starting a list of things to live for: No. 1 being ice cream; No. 2, water fights; and No. 3, staying up past your bedtime and being allowed to watch TV. The list will keep growing with suggestions from the Horizon audience. The intimate, one-actor play will be presented with a reduced-capacity, in-the-round seating configuration. Through February 27. Masks required plus proof of vaccination or negative PCR test within 48 hours.

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Cows that type? Check. Chickens on strike? Check. Farmer Brown in disbelief? Double check! Beginning February 2, the Center for Puppetry Arts  presents  Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type based on the “udderly” charming children’s book by Doreen Cronin with illustrations by Betsy Lewin. Adapted by Jon Ludwig and Jason Hines, it features marionette, rod and shadow puppets. Through March 13. Masks required for all visitors.

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Dream Hou$e, beginning previews Friday on the Alliance Theatre’s Hertz Stage, follows two Latinx sisters selling their family home via an HGTV-style reality show. Eliana Pipes’ 2021/22 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition winner was inspired by the playwright’s own childhood, when her family left her hometown of Culver City, California. “All of a sudden, our house had doubled in value . . . and (selling it) really made a huge difference in my family’s financial health and our financial future,” Pipes told the Arizona Republic. “But it also means that we participated in gentrification and that that move amounted to a kind of cultural loss that I really couldn’t understand at the time.” Through February 13. Masks required plus proof of vaccination (for ages 12 and older) or a negative test.

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BOOKS

Constance Baker Motley was one of the most influential, yet least known, of the civil rights activists of the ’60s. She defended Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Birmingham, helped to argue Brown vs. The Board of Education and was the first Black woman to argue a case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Author Tomiko Brown-Nagin will discuss her biography of Motley, Civil Rights Queen, with Rose Scott in a virtual Atlanta History Center Author Talks program Wednesday at 7 p.m. The event is virtual and free, but registration is required.