HOT TICKETS

Youngstown State University Theater presents Neil LaBute’s “The Shape of Things” this weekend in Spotlight Arena Theater in Bliss Hall. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Call (330) 941-3105.

“Preacher’s Kid,” the new movie from Stan Foster, who is a Youngstown native, opens this weekend. You can catch it locally at Cinema South in Boardman. Times are 1:50, 4:30, 7:30 and 10:10 p.m.k

Magician Jason Alan combines illusions and comedy in his stage show, which he will present in his hometown of Salem on Friday and Saturday (8 p.m.) at Salem Community Theatre, 490 E. State St.; call (330) 332-9688.

jThe Harlem Globetrotters show at Covelli Centre on Saturday night is sold out. But tickets remain for shows in the following nearby cities: Akron (7 p.m. Saturday at Rhodes Arena); Canton (7:30 p.m. Friday at Canton Civic Center); and Erie, Pa. (2 p.m. Sunday at Tullio Arena). Tickets are available online at ticketmaster.com and harlemglobetrotters.com.

The Mount Union College Department of Music will present guest pianist Caroline Oltmanns at 3 p.m. Sunday in Presser Recital Hall. The German-born Oltmanns, a professor at Youngstown State University, has performed as a soloist around the world. Sunday’s recital will include works by Schubert, Chopin, James Wilding and Erkki Melartin. Presser Recital Hall is inside Cope Music Hall, on the corner of Union Avenue and Simpson Street on Mount Union’s campus. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (330) 823-2180.

Tickets go on sale Monday for reggae-tinged pop singer Sean Kingston, who will be at Thiel College in Greenville, Pa., at 9 p.m. March 20. The concert will be inside Passavant Center, on the campus. The Jamaican-born Kingston is best-known for his single “Beautiful Girls.” Tickets are $20. Call the Thiel box office at (724) 589-3010 between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.k

Shinedown and Puddle of Mudd bring their tour to Covelli Centre on Tuesday for a 7:30 p.m. concert. Tickets are available at the Covelli box office and via Ticketmaster.

Dave Matthews Band, whose “Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King” is up for the Album of the Year at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, has announced his summer tour schedule. Tickets can be reserved online only until Feb. 8 at warehouse.davematthewsband.com. The band will come to Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls on June 25 (with Martin Sexton) and PNC Park in Pittsburgh on July 10 (with Zac Brown Band). Tickets go on sale widely Feb. 26.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra is known as a Christmas concert tradition, but that might be changing. TSO will come to E.J. Thomas Hall in Akron at 8 p.m. March 26; the Palace Theatre in Cleveland for shows at 3 and 8 p.m. March 27; and Pittsburgh’s Benedum Center at 7:30 p.m. April 4.

The electric orchestra will play its “Beethoven’s Last Night” in its entirety in the first half and songs from its recently released album “Night Castle” in the second half. Tickets go on sale in mid-February, but a presale is available to fan-club members. Go to WNCX.com and click on the TSO icon to register.