Live concert
Monday and Tuesday. Rock. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a more solid rock line-up than The Police-Elvis Costello double-bill playing Red Rocks on Monday and Tuesday nights. Sting and his boys swear that this is the final leg of their North American reunion tour. Will they be good to their word? Or will they pull a Cher and come back three or four more times under the same claim? Only time will tell. Until we know for sure, you best take advantage of this opportunity to see these two legendary outfits. More: . Ricardo Baca
Classical music
On-going. Musical.Central City Opera’s new production of “West Side Story” demonstrates again the musical’s enduring power and relevance. Always-dependable stage director Ken Cazan has sculpted a masterful staging that potently conveys the work’s delicate and, in many ways, unlikely balance of fun, poignancy and pain. Every scene sparkles with energy and emotional investment. Performances run through Aug. 10 in the Central City Opera House, 124 Eureka St., with the next one set for 8 p.m. Saturday. $45-$93. 303-292-6700 or . Kyle MacMillan
Today and Saturday. Symphonic Music. In July 2007, the New York Philharmonic created a stir when it turned away from its recent history of seasoned artistic leaders and named the then-40-year-old Alan Gilbert as its next music director. Colorado audiences will get a chance to see the young maestro in action when he leads the first two concerts of the philharmonic’s annual residency at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. Performances are set for 6 p.m. today and Saturday in Vail’s Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater. $23-$84. 877-812-5700 or . Kyle MacMillan
Visual Art
Today. Sculpture. Two of Denver’s most adventuresome sculptors — Tsehai Johnson and Andy Miller — are featured in two of the summer’s most anticipated exhibitions. Johnson will be represented with six porcelain works, including a floor installation, and Miller will show pieces that verge in a new direction. The side-by-side shows open today with a public reception from 6 to 9 p.m. and continue through Aug. 23 at the Plus Gallery, 2350 Lawrence St. Free. 303-296-0927 or . Kyle MacMillan
Theater
Saturday and Sunday. Concert. Actor and vocalist Traci Kern, most recently seen as the Narrator in Town Hall Arts Center’s “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” performs in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Avenue Theater with Donna Debreceni accompanying. Special guests include noted area actors Elizabeth Welch and Joel Sutliffe. 417 E. 17th Ave. $10. 303-321-5925 or . John Moore
Saturday. Drama. Paragon Theatre, winner of The Denver Post’s Ovation Award for best season by a theater company, opens the regional premiere of Neil LaBute’s incendiary, interracial new comedy. “This is How it Goes” tackles racism, adultery and deception with his trademark brutal hilarity, proving no story is black and white. Opens Saturday, then 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays through Aug. 16 at the Crossroads at Five Points Theater, 2590 Washington St. $17-$19. 303-300-2210 or . John Moore
Pop music
Saturday. For kids. And the pre-teens may rejoice. The Jonas Brothers — friends and tourmates of Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus — are coming back to Colorado with a Saturday-night show at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre. They sold out the Wells Fargo Theatre not long ago, and this show will no doubt be made up of the same demographic: kids and their parents. More: . Ricardo Baca
Film
Thursday and Saturday. Double feature. Diana Ross! Faye Dunaway! They’ve never shared a film. But thanks to the fab “Seeing Double” program at the Starz FilmCenter, the two very different divas will share a screen. Both the Motown-produced melodrama “Mahogany” and the John Carpenter-penned thriller “The Eyes of Laura Mars” are set in the worlds of high fashion. Anthony Perkins’ crazed photog in the decidedly B “Mahogany” and Dunaway/Laura’s ability to see murders through the eyes of a killer make the overlap between the two ’70s flicks even eerier (and, yes, campier). Thursday, 7 p.m.; July 26, 2 p.m. The Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli, Ninth Street and Auraria Parkway. $6-$9.50. 303-820-FILM. Lisa Kennedy
