Weekend Preview: Snoopy and Subtitles

While Super Bowl XLIV between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday anchors the calendar for most people this weekend, there are certainly non-pigskin events locally that are worth a look.

A fun time, for example, can be found at Charles Wright Academy this weekend as the students stage “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.” The show runs at 6:30 p.m. today and Saturday. The show is a standout for the private school since it is its first dinner theater production and involves almost one in five students at the school. And quite frankly, a show can’t go wrong when it involves a Snoopy. This is a show for the family that is a perfect way to share staged arts with young theatergoers.

Another theater production worth a look can be found downtown, where the Washington State History Museum will host a stage reading of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece that follows a family divided by the fate of their heirloom piano. Tickets are $14. The show runs at 3 p.m. Feb. 6. More information is available at www.broadwaycenter.org.

These shows come at times that don’t conflict with Super Bowl watching, so get some culture before you become a couch potato on Sunday.