Youngstown State University Theater has a special presentation: 'How His Bride Came to Abraham'

jYoungstown State University Theater has a special presentation: “How His Bride Came to Abraham.” It involves a romantic relationship between two combatants — an Arab and a Jew — in the war-torn Middle East. Tonight’s opening night performance is sold out, but tickets remain for the rest of the performances, which are in Spotlight Arena Theater in Bliss Hall on the YSU campus, this weekend and next. Call the box office at (330) 941-3105. Each performance will be followed by a symposium.

Kent-Trumbull Theatre takes a stab at “Doubt,” the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play, set in a Catholic school in New York in the ’60s. Curtain time is 8 p.m. The campus is on Mahoning Avenue in Champion. Call (330) 675-8887.

The final three performances of Easy Street Productions’ “Hello, Dolly!” are this weekend at Powers Auditorium. Show times are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Call the box office at (330) 744-0264.

“Company” continues at the Youngstown Playhouse, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Call the box office at (330) 788-8739.

Jim Gustafson’s psych-rock band Poobah will make its only area appearance of the year at Faces, 13 W. Broad St. in Newton Falls, at 9:30 p.m. Saturday. Poobah has been called the world’s most collectible psych-rock band by Goldmine magazine, a claim based on the fact that its vinyl records from the ’70s sell for as much as $900. Check them out at myspace.com/poobahband.ÓÅ

A fall music festival featuring rootsy bluegrass band Get Out and Push and Dulci-More will be held from 1 to 5:30 p.m. at remote Scenic Vista Park, a bucolic expanse that sits atop a hill outside of Lisbon. Complimentary bean soup and cornbread will be available. The address is 11000 Wayne Bridge Road. Go to dulcimore.org for information.

The Pittsburgh Symphony, with guest vocalist Linda Eder, visits its New Castle home — the Scottish Rite Cathedral — for an 8 p.m. concert Monday. The auditorium is at 110 E. Lincoln Ave., New Castle, Pa. Call (724) 654-6683.

Youngstown Film has culled the library of Warner Bros. cartoons and picked about 20 of the finest starring Bugs Bunny and the rest of the gang. The cartoon festival will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Butler-North building, which is the former church next to the Butler Institute of American Art on Wick Avenue in Youngstown. Admission is $5. Go to youngstownfilm.org to learn more.