BEST BETS Friday 10/6

7:30pm Theater

In Patrick Stewart’s solo show “Uneasy Lies the Head,” the actor brings to life kings and emperors, generals and prime ministers. The former Starship Enterprise captain is performing the show as a benefit for the Lobero Theatre Foundation and the Shakespeare School.

* “Uneasy Lies the Head,” Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara. Friday, 7:30 p.m. $40 to $100. (805) 963-0761.

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Dance

When David Parsons danced for Paul Taylor from 1978 to 1987, he became one of the most distinctive modern dancers of his generation. However, his 50 works for the Parsons Dance Company in the last 13 years have spread his fame even further. And now--replacing the originally scheduled Martha Graham Dance Company--his 11-member ensemble will open the UCLA dance season in Royce Hall by performing Parsons’ “Closure,” “Bachiana,” “Union,” “Mood Swing” and his signature strobelight solo “Caught,” along with the West Coast premieres of two works by company dancer Robert Battle: “Mood Indigo” and “Strange Humors.”

* Parsons Dance Company, Royce Hall, UCLA campus, Westwood. 8 p.m. Also Saturday, 8 p.m. $25 to $40. (310) 825-2101.

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Music

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony makes up the bulk of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s program that opens its winter subscription season. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts before returning in two weeks to his sabbatical that runs through January. Soloists in Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony are Christine Brewer, Marietta Simpson, Anthony Dean Griffey and William Stone, with the Los Angeles Master Chorale assisting. Opening the program, Salonen leads Arnold Schoenberg’s “A Survivor From Warsaw,” which Leonard Nimoy will narrate.

* The L.A. Philharmonic plays in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. 8 p.m. Also, Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m. $10 to $70. (323) 850-2000.

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Opera

Long Beach Opera breaks out of its June-only producing mode this week, reviving Jacopo Peri’s “Euridice,” a work 400 years old this year, at the Getty Center. Andrew Lawrence King conducts; Isabel Milenski is stage director. In the cast are Christine Abraham, Ellen Hargis, William Hite, Nils Brown and Curtis Streetman, among others.

* Long Beach Opera performs Peri’s “Euridice” in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium at the Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood. 8 p.m. Also Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. $85 on opening night, subsequently $55. Parking is included in ticket price. (323) 655-TKTS.

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Movies

It’s never too early to think Oscar in this town, and for documentaries the race begins with Doctober. Presented by the International Documentary Assn., Doctober, the fourth annual International Documentary Film Festival, returns to Pasadena for a weeklong celebration of nonfiction filmmaking. The first three festivals produced six Academy Award nominees and two Oscar winners and this year should be no different. The lineup is highlighted by “Burning Man: The Burning Sensation,” an exploration of the world’s largest art venue, part “Mad Max,” part desert acid trip; 12-time Oscar nominee Charles Guggenheim’s “The First Freedom”; and “The Concert,” directed by Robert Dornhelm. Fourteen films will be shown in eight programs on a rotating basis through Oct. 12.

* Doctober, the fourth annual International Documentary Film Festival, Pacific Theatres, Hastings Ranch, 467 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena. Friday, “Thin Ice,” with the short, “Esther, Baby & Me,” 10 a.m.; program of shorts includes, “The Laughing Club of India,” “On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom” and “The Concert,” noon; “Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles,” with the short “Tales From the Reading Room,” 2 p.m.; “Of Civil Rights and Wrongs: The Fred Korematsu Story,” with the short “The First Freedom,” 4 p.m.; “Gaea Girls,” 6 p.m.; “Burning Man: The Burning Sensation,” with the short “Look Back, Don’t Look Back,” 8 p.m.; “Just, Melvin,” 10 p.m. through next Thursday. $5 to $7 per program; weeklong passes, $35. (626) 351-8939.

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Movies

Spike Lee rips into television with his latest film, “Bamboozled.” In the social satire Damon Wayans plays a Harvard-educated writer given an ultimatum by his network: Develop a sure-fire urban hit or get canned. His response is to produce an outrageous farce--a minstrel show done in “blackface,” featuring a homeless tap dancer (Savion Glover) and his sidekick (Tommy Davidson). The show becomes a runaway hit and Wayans is attacked from all sides.

* “Bamboozled,” rated R for strong language and some violence, opens Friday in select theaters.

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Architecture

The annual Craftsman Weekend is the West’s biggest celebration of all things Arts & Crafts. Staged by Pasadena Heritage, the weekend-long event includes art shows, lectures and the ever-popular house tours. Things get started tonight with a reception at the the Women’s City Club. Saturday, there are seminars and the art shows, but the bus tours are sold out. Sunday is the tour of six area Craftsman homes.

* Craftsman Weekend. Reception tonight at 7 at Women’s City Club, 160 N. Oakland Ave., Pasadena. $35. Admission to art show and sales, $5 to $10. House tours, additional $30. Tickets for all events available today and Friday at Pasadena Heritage, 651 S. St. John Ave. Saturday and Sunday at the Masonic Temple, 200 S. Euclid Ave. (626) 441-6333 or https://www.pasadenaheritage.org.

Freebies

Carnival rides and arts-and-crafts booths will be a few of the main attractions at the annual Sabor De Mexico Lindo street festival, four blocks along Pacific Boulevard, Huntington Park. Friday, 5 to 11 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. (323) 585-1155.

Piano prodigy and recent Colburn School graduate Donald Vega plays jazz at California Plaza, 350 S. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. Noon. (213) 687-2159.