Arts Events For The Week Of April 12

TUESDAY APRIL 12

The Chairs Revue*, Harvard Yard, outside Lehman Hall, 12:30 p.m.

Renminbi: Faces of China and Currency of Images, CGIS S-020, 4:15 p.m.

Conversations on HBO's The Wire with Cast and Special Guests, Ames, Austin Hall, 5 p.m.

Playing Across Musical and Social Divides in Israel and Beyond, Davison Room, Music Building, 5 p.m.

Paint the Town (La) Red, OBERON, 6 p.m.

Rabah Ameur Zaïmechem, Room 114, Barker Center, 6 p.m.

Elaine Scarry, Harvard Book Store, 7 p.m.

The Embassy (Hessler, 1973) and A tout prendre (Jutra, 1964), Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m.

The Order of Myths (Brown, 2008), The Brattle Theatre, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 13

Chasing Chiles Book Talk, Room 213, Sever Hall, 5:30 p.m.

Louder Than a Bomb (Jacobs & Siskel, 2010), Askwith Lecture Hall, Longfellow Hall, 6 p.m.

Poetic Fashion & Unfashion: On Literary Outliers, Thompson Room, Barker Center, 6 p.m.

La Casa de Bernarda Alba*, Agassiz Theatre, 7 p.m.

Francisco Goldman, Harvard Book Store, 7 p.m.

Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929), Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Ruttmann, 1927) and Manhatta (Sheeler & Strand, 1921), Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m.

The Price of Childhood (Yan, 2010), Room 102, Hauser Hall, 7 p.m.

Richard Fein Poetry Reading, Rabb Hall, Hillel, 7 p.m.

Henry’s Crime (Venville, 2010), The Brattle Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Carnivale in Venice, OBERON, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY APRIL 14

Midday Organ Recital, Adolphus Busch Hall, 12:15 p.m.

Museums, the Nation, and the World, Weil Town Hall, Belfer Building, 4:15 p.m.

A Conversation with Kjell Espmark, Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library, 5 p.m.

Que peut (être/faire/espérer) le roman français aujourd'hui?, Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall, 5 p.m.

Gamelan Sessions, Hilles Library Courtyard, 7 p.m.

Parade*, New College Theatre, 8 p.m.

Zirn Sees the Specks of Light*, Adams House Pool Theatre, 8 p.m.

Waiting for Godot*, Loeb Ex, 8:30 p.m.

FRIDAY APRIL 15

Studying Musical Culture in the 21st Century, Holden Chapel, 4 p.m.

TV and Film Writer/Producer Carlton Cuse, New College Theatre, 5 p.m.

The Dark Crystal (Henson & Oz, 1982)*, The Brattle Theatre, 5:30, 9:45 p.m.

Sincerely, CityStep*, Cambridge Rindge & Latin High School, 7 p.m.

Turtles Can Fly (Ghobadi, 2004), Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m.

Labyrinth (Henson, 1986)*, The Brattle Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Chinese Symphonic Masterpiece II, Paine Hall, 8 p.m.

Contours*, Harvard Dance Center, 8 p.m.

Culture Show 2011: H-TOWN, Quincy House Dining Hall, 9 p.m.

Madame Tullule's Grand Fiasco, OBERON, 8 p.m.

Marooned in Iraq (Ghobadi, 2002), Harvard Film Archive, 9 p.m.

Presencia Latina, Lowell Lecture Hall, 8 p.m.

Volumes: Opera Scenes in the Bibliothèque*, Lowell House Library, 8 p.m.

SATURDAY APRIL 16

Elizabeth Mitchell, The Brattle Theatre, 11 a.m.

Margarete Bieber and Her Coin Collection, Sackler Museum, 11 a.m.

Ida, The Brattle Theatre, 7 p.m.

No One Knows About Persian Cats (Ghobadi, 2009), Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m.

41st Annual Archie C. Epps Spring Concert, Sanders Theatre, 8 p.m.

An Afternoon at the Sackler, Lowell Lecture Hall, 8 p.m.

Eleganza 2011, Lavietes Basketball Pavilion, 8 p.m.

Marian devotions from Medieval and Renaissance Europe, First Church Congregational, 8 p.m.

OUTWIT: Freestyle Rap Competition!, Adams House Upper Common Room, 8:30 p.m.

SUNDAY APRIL 17

The Muppet Movie (Frawley, 1978), The Brattle Theatre, 12, 6 p.m.

The Boston Conservatory Orchestra, Sanders Theatre, 2 p.m.

The Great Muppet Caper (Henson, 1981), The Brattle Theatre, 2, 8 p.m.

The Muppets Take Manhattan (Oz, 1984), The Brattle Theatre, 4, 10 p.m.

A Time for Drunken Horses (Ghobadi, 2000), Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m.

Spring Concert of the Dudley House Orchestra, Paine Hall, 8 p.m.

MONDAY APRIL 18

Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr., 104 Mount Auburn St., Floor 3R, 4 p.m.

Hugh Haughton on Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats", Thompson Room, Barker Center, 6 p.m.

Half Moon (Ghobadi, 2006), Harvard Film Archive, 7 p.m.