Role-playing
It's the last weekend to catch local playwright Dick Reichman's well-crafted, thought-provoking "Audition" before it goes on to Valdez. The premise -- an aging, once-famous director, auditioning small-town theater folk obsessed with the idea of making the big time -- starts like a comedy, but it takes twists that transport us to more profound regions before the single act wraps up. Tickets are $18-$20. Performances will take place at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at Cyrano's, 413 D St.
Winners sing
The annual Anchorage Concert Chorus Vocal Scholarship Competition and Winners' Recital will take place in the UAA Fine Arts Building recital hall on Saturday, May 17, with the competition starting at 9 a.m. The public is welcome to sit in. At 7 p.m., the six winners of the competition will present a recital in the same venue, joined by the winners of other local music contests. The music-loving public is urged to come and hear some of the very best vocalists and instrumentalists in Alaska. It's the 24th year for the event, which is always one of the more amazing concerts of the year and free.
Book debuts
Longtime Anchorage doctor Mike Holloway will launch his new book, "Dreaming Bears: A Gwich'in Indian Storyteller, a Southern Doctor, a Wild Corner of Alaska," a memoir about his trip to Arctic Alaska in 1961, when he lived and hunted with elders Johnny and Sarah Frank. Samuel Johns' Athabascan dance group will perform at the event, which starts at 1 p.m. on Sunday, May 18, at the Anchorage Museum, 625 C St. Find out more at jmichaelholloway.com. Anchorage sci-fi author G.M. Whitley will launch "Sanctuary," the third book in her "Futures" trilogy, at 6 p.m. on May 19 at Sugarspoon (2601 Spenard Road). You can find her books at Bosco's and learn more at gmwhitley.com.
Wax works
Susan Delgalvis has had her art featured in notable shows around the country. Right now you can find it at blue.holloman gallery, 3555 Arctic Blvd. Delgalvis' medium is encaustics -- colored beeswax and resin -- though she doesn't like to use that term. The work also uses boards, plaster and paints, she points out. Her pieces tend toward the abstract and, she says, reflects her thoughts, feelings and life experiences. A doctor, she says art often helps her connect with her patients. One neat thing about the paintings, she said with a grin: "It's OK to touch them!"
Compiled by arts reporter
Mike Dunham