It’s couples night at the Funny Farm, 5580 Youngstown-Warren Road, Niles, with comedian Rob

It’s couples night at the Funny Farm, 5580 Youngstown-Warren Road, Niles, with comedian Rob Little. Call (330) 652-4242 for more information.

“One-Acts: Melodrama” continues at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Victorian Players Theater, 702 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown (across from Flynn’s Tires). It’s a fun night of drama, 1850-style, with villains, heroes and damsels in distress. Call (330) 746-5455.

The Warren Philharmonic, accompanied by roughly 200 singers from choral groups and four soloists, will present what should be a remarkable and moving production of Verdi’s Requiem at 8 p.m. at Stambaugh Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave., Youngstown. Call the box office at (330) 259-0555 for tickets.

Blues legend John Hammond is at Michael O’Malley’s, Four Mile Run Road, Austintown, for an 8 p.m. show. Call (330) 318-9830 for ticket information.

The Rumble in Trumbull, an improvisational comedy competition, will pit troupes from three regional branches of Kent State University against one another. The comedy showdown will begin at 7 p.m. at the Trumbull Campus theater, located at 4314 Mahoning Ave., N.W., in Champion. Troupes from the Portage and Stark campuses will also compete. It’s free to the public.

Mill Creek MetroParks annual Kite Festival runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the MetroParks Farm on Route 46, across from the Canfield Fairgrounds. Games, contests and open flying — bring your own kite — are part of the fun. There will also be stunt kite flying shows, and demonstrations by the Ohio Society for the Elevation of Kites (cute name), and Fly Pittsburgh.

Create your own project at Lynn Cardwell’s pottery studio or Marcie Applegate’s jewelry studio in the Ward Bakery Building, 1024 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown (across from the U-Haul building). Open house hours are noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Visitors can stop in to see the studios and create a hand-built clay project or silver clay jewelry project to make a pendant or pair of earrings. Each project is $10. No reservations necessary. Adults and children are welcome. For more information, call Lynn Cardwell at (330) 718-2696. Shown is Kathleen Moser of Columbiana working on a pottery project at Cardwell’s studio.

Elmo is back! Sesame Street Live returns to Chevrolet Centre for eight shows over four days (May 1-4). Tickets are available at the box office and at gettix.net.

Ballet Western Reserve and Friends of Fellows Riverside Gardens will present Enchanted Evening at the Gardens, an evening of dance, at 8 p.m. May 2 at the Davis Education Center auditorium at Fellows. A half-century of musical styles will be explored in the elegant evening, which will begin with a wine and cheese reception at 7 on the patio of Fellows. For ticket information, call the BWR at (330) 744-1934.k

Youngstown Symphony Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at 8 p.m. May 3 in Powers Auditorium. It will be joined by the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. Call (330) 744-0264.

Easy Street Productions will present Disney’s “High School Musical” for three shows at Powers Auditorium, May 9-11. Call the box office at (330) 744-0264.