HOT TICKETS

34West Theater Company this weekend brings back “My Name Is Ruth.” Set in the 1950s, the play is actually a romantic-comedy based on the biblical story of Ruth. The dinner-theater production will be at Das Dutch Village Inn, Columbiana. Times are 12:30 p.m. today and 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For reservations and information, go to 34west.org.

“Block 5,” the powerful Holocaust drama based on a true story, enters its second weekend at Victorian Players Theatre, 702 Mahoning Ave. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Call (330) 746-5455.k

A fortuitous last-minute addition to the calendar will land Controllar in Youngstown this weekend. The experimental synth-pop duo from the Netherlands will be at Cedars on Friday night. Controllar, who played Cedars in 2008, is something to behold, but not easy to describe. Thomas Myrmel coaxes electronica out of a laptop wearing what looks like a Wii armband, and Anat Spiegel sings in a sultry jazz voice. The show starts at 11 p.m.

Trumbull New Theatre’s production of “Twelfth Night,” the classic Shakespeare comedy, enters its final weekend. Curtain times are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. The theater is at 5883 Youngstown-Warren Road, Niles. Call (330) 652-1103.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for the March 18 Breaking Benjamin-Chevelle concert at Covelli Centre. All tickets — general admission floor and fixed seats — are $37. Buy them at the Covelli box office; online at Livenation.com and Ticketmaster.com; all Ticketmaster outlets; and by phone at (800) 745-3000.

jThe weekend’s best pick for a club show, as voted on by a panel of Vindicator experts, would be jangly indie-poppers First In Space. The Youngstown trio will be at the new Slim’s Bar & Grille, 2844 Market St., in the Uptown district, Saturday night. Call (330) 788-7335.

Woodstock legend Richie Havens comes to folk mecca the Kent Stage for an 8 p.m. Sunday show. The venue is at 175 E. Main St., in the middle of downtown Kent. Call (330) 677-5500.

Youngstown State University Theater will present “The Shape of Things,” a modern take on Adam and Eve. The play, written by Neil LaBute and turned into a movie in 2003 starring Rachel Weisz and Gretchen Mol, will be presented for just four performances, Jan. 28-31, at Spotlight Arena Theater, inside Bliss Hall. Call (330) 941-3105 for tickets.

Tickets are now on sale at the box office and via Ticketmaster for the Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus, which returns to Covelli Centre for seven shows March 4-7. Prices range from $14 to $72.