Hakuna matata! Chattanooga Theatre Centre's Youth Theatre will open its 2019-2020 season with a kid-friendly twist on Disney's beloved tale "The Lion King," opening Friday, Oct. 25, with six performances through Nov. 3.

Three performances are left to catch "The Laramie Project" at Dalton Little Theatre, the play based on a hate crime that leads audiences to introspection on prejudice, tolerance, ignorance and compassion.

Improv Chattanooga's usual Improv vs. Stand-Up gets taken over this weekend by the second Lookout Comedy Festival.

Yellow Dragon Productions opens Jeffrey Hatcher's play "Three Viewings" on Friday, Oct. 18, for four performances over two weekends. The play consists of three comic/dramatic monologues set in a Midwestern funeral parlor over a three-day Christmas weekend. The production is directed by Joel D. Scribner.

A collection of Peruvian heritage art by Alex Paul Loza, "Sapiykunapaq: My Roots, Mis Raices," will be featured at a free reception on Sunday, Oct. 20, from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at the North River Civic Center, 1009 Executive Drive in Hixson. Sapiykunapaq means "my roots" in the Quechua language.

Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga ushers in fall with one of J.M. Barrie's lesser-known works, "A Kiss For Cinderella."

One of the most suspenseful scenes in classic cinema is when Audrey Hepburn, playing a blind woman, flips the light switch to level the playing field between herself and murderous thugs pursuing her in her apartment during "Wait Until Dark."

Hunter Museum of American Art is hosting a reception Thursday, Oct. 10, to open a solo exhibition of work by Noel W. Anderson, an artist who explores, often through the medium of textiles, the way in which the media portrays and society perceives the black male identity.

Back Alley Productions opens the suspenseful "House on Haunted Hill," inspired by the Vincent Price film of the same name, on Friday, Oct. 11, for seven performances on weekends through the end of October.

The world's greatest consulting detective and Dr. Watson race to solve their most fiendishly puzzling case yet as Cumberland County Playhouse presents Ken Ludwig's "Baskerville, a Sherlock Holmes Mystery" beginning Friday, Oct. 11.

The replica Columbus ships "Nina" and "Pinta" have docked in Chattanooga before, but there's a connection beyond the frequency of their visits.

RISE Chattanooga is partnering with local writer and spoken-word artist Christian J. Collier to present a free, community creative-writing workshop and reading session led by award-winning poet Jericho Brown.

Artists, art lovers, environmentalists and ecologists from across the Southeast have the rare opportunity to hear a presentation and then participate in an open discussion about sculpture with artist Aurora Robson on Saturday, Oct. 5, when the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance ConFab is held in Chattanooga.

Be their guest and join middle-school students from Girls Preparatory School and McCallie School for their fall musical, "Beauty and the Beast Jr."

A reception on Friday, Oct. 4, will open In-Town Gallery's featured October exhibit "Art You Wear: The Jewelers of In-Town Gallery."

Artist/muralist Kevin Bate, perhaps best known for murals he has painted around Chattanooga, including the "Fallen Five" on McCallie Avenue, will present "Perception is 9/10s of the Law" on Friday, Oct. 4, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Chattanooga WorkSpace, 302 W. Sixth St.

Covenant College Theatre Department will present the story of Henrietta Leavitt, a young woman who defied early 20th-century expectations, in five performances beginning Friday, Oct. 4.

Center for Creative Arts will host the 19th annual Chattanooga Dances! performance Thursday, Oct. 3, in the school's auditorium, 1301 Dallas Road.

You have four chances left to catch "The Curious Savage" in the Flo Summitt Theatre at Oak Street Playhouse in First-Centenary United Methodist Church, Oak and Lindsay streets.

Choo Choo Kids, the musical theater troupe of Chattanooga Center for Creative Arts, will debut its 2019-2020 show, "Raise You Up," Thursday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium, 1301 Dallas Road.

Six artists whose work is displayed in River Gallery during the months of September and October will be honored with a reception Friday, Sept. 27, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the gallery, 400 E. Second St.

Lee University Theatre is presenting "Brilliant Traces," a play by Cindy Lou Johnson, for performances Sept. 27-28 and Oct. 3-5. They will take place in the Buzz Oates Theatre of the Communication Arts Building on campus, 433 N. Ocoee St. in Cleveland, Tennessee.

Two comedy shows are scheduled at The Comedy Catch, 1400 Market St., this weekend.