San Antonio Express-News (Sunday)
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OUR PICKS FOR WHAT TO SEE AND DO THIS WEEK
1. Rodeo
The San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo kicks off Thursday, which means 18 days of cowboys, live music, carnival rides, big pigs and fried food, in no particular order. Entertainers the first weekend include Carly Pearce, Midland, and Country Music Hall of Fame member Ronnie Milsap.
Gates open at 10 a.m. every day; rodeo start times are 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, noon and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, AT&T Center, 1 AT&T Center Parkway. Fairgrounds admission $5-$10, rodeo tickets $33-$72, attcenter.com.
2. Stage
Antoinette Winstead, who directed the Renaissance Guild’s powerful 2007 staging of “Fences,” is directing Classic Theatre’s new production.
August Wilson’s drama is about a once-gifted athlete (Naybu Fullman) in the Negro Leagues whose baseball career was derailed right before integration, leaving him with a bitterness that he takes out on his family.
Opens Thursday. 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Feb. 26, Little Carver Civic Center, 226 N. Hackberry. $23-$38, classictheatre.org.
3. Movie
Channing Tatum is back to the grind in “Magic Mike’s Last Dance.” Former stripper Mike Lane (Tatum) is down on his luck and bartending in Florida when he catches the eye of a wealthy woman (Salma Hayek). Once they get to know each other (lap dance alert), she has big plans for him.
Opens Friday in theaters.
4. Concert
The newly rebranded Boeing Center at Tech Port will be a madhouse when ’80s thrash metal band Anthrax takes the stage. Also on the bill: guitarist Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society.
8 p.m. Friday, Boeing Center at Tech Port, 3331 General
Hudnell Drive. $30.50-$80.50, boeingcentertechport.com.
5. Family
The DoSeum is giving little ones the chance to climb inside some of Eric Carle’s stories with the touring exhibit “Very Eric Carle: A Very Hungry, Quiet, Lonely, Clumsy, Busy Exhibit.”
Activities in the interactive show include weaving a web with the “Very Busy Spider,” composing a night symphony with the “Very Quiet Cricket” and following the path of the “Very Hungry Caterpillar.”
Opens Saturday. Through April 16, DoSeum, 2800 Broadway. Included with regular admission, which is $16 and free for children younger than 1, thedoseum.org.