Downtown Lawrence will be inundated with crowds and performers once again at the end of May for the annual Busker Festival. The free outdoor festival hosts numerous street performers, including magicians, comedians, jugglers, acrobats and even some little Scottie dogs. One attraction set to ...

The Motown hit-makers The Temptations and longtime standup comedian Lewis Black are among the headliners who will perform during the upcoming season at the Lied Center. The Temptations, who gained famed in the 1960s and 1970s as a group of five vocalists who were part of the larger Detroit ...

FRIDAY Final Friday Art Walk includes: Corinna Delgado and other artists, “Mental Health Month,” 6-9 p.m., Art Love Collective, 646 Vermont St. “The Eye of Erin,” works by Erin Spiridigliozzi, 4:30-6 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Photography by Brandon Cale, 10 ...

FRIDAY • “Jennie Brooks: A Nature Lover in Lawrence,” 7-8 p.m., Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St. In-person and livestream; see watkinsmuseum.org. • Lawrence Ballet Theatre: “The Firebird,” 7 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. See ...

Shakespearean drama isn’t really Theatre Lawrence’s thing — don’t expect to see Lady Macbeth wringing her guilty hands in West Lawrence — but having fun with Shakespeare most certainly is. In the last few years, the community theater has produced “Something Rotten,” a musical ...

Multiple musicians from Lawrence will be inducted into the Kansas Music Hall of Fame on Saturday. Ric Averill, a longtime artistic director and performer at the Lawrence Arts Center, and the Lawrence-based Latino music band Son Venezuela are part of a class of six musicians who will be ...