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Last chance to see Riverdance, but tickets are scarce. The third and final show this week at Powers Auditorium begins at 7:30 tonight. Call (330) 744-0264.

jA touring production of “Xanadu,” the far-out musical on wheels, continues at Benedum Center in Pittsburgh this week before heading to Cleveland. Shows are at 7:30 tonight, 8 p.m. Friday; 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Call (412) 456-6666. Shown at left is Elizabeth Stanley in a scene from the production.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for Dave Matthews Band concerts at PNC Park in Pittsburgh and Blossom in Cuyahoga Falls.

DMB will be at Blossom with Martin Sexton June 25, and at PNC Park July 10 with Zac Brown Band — which won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist last month. For the Blossom show, tickets range from $40 to $70 and will be available at livenation.com, all Ticketmaster outlets and by phone at (800) 745-3000. For PNC, tickets range from $49.50 to $75 and will be available at livenation.com, the PNC Park box office and by phone at (877) 848-4099.

Three theater productions enter their final weekend on local stages:

Shakespeare’s “As You Like It,” 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, at Youngstown State University’s Ford Theater (inside Bliss Hall, on Wick Avenue); call (330) 941-3105.

“Fuddy Meers,” 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, New Castle Playhouse, 212 E. Long Ave., New Castle, Pa.; (724) 654-3437.

Hop, Skip and Jump Productions’ “The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr [Abridged],” 8 p.m., Main Street Theater, 5 N. Main St., Columbiana; (330) 420-8370.

Monster Nationals, including Boardman’s own Joe Sylvester behind the wheel of the behemoth monster truck known as Bad Habit, takes up residence at Covelli Centre for shows at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Story, D8.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday for two big country concerts: Sugarland, May 14 at First Niagara Pavilion (formerly Post-Gazette Pavilion); and the Country Throwdown Tour, May 20 at Blossom Music Center.

Sugarland will show up with Jake Owen and Danny Gokey. Tickets range from $26 to $50.25 and will be available at livenation.com, Ticketmaster outlets and by phone at (800) 745-3000.

The Throwdown Tour features Montgomery Gentry, Jamey Johnson, Little Big Town, Jack Ingram, Eric Church, Eli Young Band and more. Tickets range from $21 to $41 and will be available at the sources mentioned above.

The Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus returns to Covelli Centre for seven shows March 4-7. Ticketmaster and the arena box office have the tickets. Show times are 7 p.m. next Thursday and March 5; 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m. March 6; and 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. March 7.

Tickets are on sale for Breaking Benjamin, who will come to Covelli Centre on March 18, with Chevelle, Red and Thousand Foot Krutch. All tickets are $43.70 at Ticketmaster.