Things to do
Lorde:
The New Zealand singer, famously overlooked at this year’s Grammy Awards, takes center stage on her Melodrama World Tour. Run the Jewels and Tove Stryke support. 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 13. $39.90-$78.75. Oracle Arena, 7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland. www.ticketmaster. com
Oakland Ballet Company:
The family-friendly “Jangala” retells Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” through contemporary ballet and bharata natya by Nadhi Thekkek and Nava Dance Theater. 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 13. Castro Valley High School, Castro Valley. www.oaklandballet. org
“Merrily We Go to Hell”:
Compelling and brilliantly acted early screen treatment of the issue of alcoholism, from 1932, with Fredric March as a playwright who can’t stay off the bottle and Sylvia Sidney as his wife, who embraces free love to cope with the stress. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 13. Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto. www. stanfordtheatre.org
“Love Never Dies”:
Local “Phantom of the Opera” fans have a brief window to catch Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 2010 sequel to that musical juggernaut; it plays for six days only, courtesy of Broadway San Jose. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, March 13-15; 8 p.m. Friday, March 16; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 17; 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 18. $48-$128, subject to change. Center for the Performing Arts, 255 S. Almaden Blvd., San Jose. (800) 982-2787. www.ticketmaster.com
“A Number”:
For the Aurora, the redoubtable Barbara Damashek directs Caryl Churchill’s taut two-hander that renders the global implications of cloning on the intimate scale of a father-son relationship. 7 p.m. TuesdayWednesday, March 13-14; 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, March 15-17. Through May 6. $33-$65. Aurora Theatre, 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822. www.aurora theatre.org