8pm TheaterThe 1999 Tony Award-winning revised version...

8pm Theater

The 1999 Tony Award-winning revised version of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” has its Los Angeles-area premiere. The musical, based on Charles M. Schulz’s beloved “Peanuts” comic strips, features new book and songs by Andrew Lippa. Todd Neilsen directs.

“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” Colony Theatre Company, 555 N. 3rd St., Burbank. Saturday, 8 p.m. Regular schedule: Saturdays, 3 and 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m.; Fridays, 8 p.m. Ends Sept. 8. $28-$31. (818) 558-7000.

all day Festival

The 62nd annual Nisei Week festival, celebrating Japanese arts and culture, takes its name from the Japanese term for second-generation Japanese Americans. The festival gets underway Saturday with the coronation of the Nisei Queen and her court, and demonstrations of chado (tea ceremony) and sashito (needlecraft). Exhibits of ceramics, photography, swords, dolls and other items will be on view, and attendees will be able to sample Asian food and beverages. Entertainment will include a Taiko Gathering Sunday that will feature more than 10 drum groups from the greater L.A. area.

Nisei Week Japanese Festival, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, 244 S. San Pedro St., L.A., Saturdays-Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Festival runs through Aug. 18. For complete schedule: (213) 687-7193, Ext. 345 or www.niseiweek.org.

7:30pm Music

Halfway through a busy fortnight of conducting the L.A. Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl, composer Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts music by himself and Stravinsky at the chamber music festival in La Jolla. Salonen will preside over his own “Five Images After Sappho,” as performed by soprano Heidi Grant Murphy and a SummerFest La Jolla 2002 ensemble. Then festival director Cho-Liang Lin will play the world premiere of a new work for solo violin Salonen has written for the festival. The event will be repeated Monday at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood.

SummerFest La Jolla, Sherwood Auditorium, 700 Prospect St., La Jolla, 7:30 p.m. $50-$75. (858) 459-3724.

all day Festival

As if traffic on Hollywood Boulevard wasn’t bad enough, the intersection at Vine Street will be

closed to traffic this weekend to make room for dancing in the streets. The Fiesta Tropical features free concerts by salsa, cumbia and merengue bands, including Oscar de Leon, Sonora Carruseles, Oro Solido and others. The cultures of all 21 Latin America countries will also be celebrated with traditional foods and beverages, carnival rides and games.

Fiesta Tropical, Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, Hollywood, Saturday and Sunday, noon to 11 p.m. Free. (323) 962-4735.

8pm Music

The Pacific Symphony will continue its summer season at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater with a program devoted to the music of great American composer George Gershwin. Alain Lefevre will be the soloist in the Piano Concerto in F. Soprano Kishna Davis will be the soloist in a medley of songs. Carl St.Clair will conduct the program, which also will include “An American in Paris” and other Gershwin favorites. The evening will end with a fireworks display.

Pacific Symphony, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine. 8 p.m. $19 to $72. (714) 755-5799.

8pm Theater

A psychiatrist sets off a life-changing chain of events when she becomes involved with her most dangerous patient in Playwrights’ Arena’s world premiere of Larry Fineberg’s “Failure of Nerve.” Jon Lawrence Rivera directs a cast headed by Barbara Bain.

“Failure of Nerve,” Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S. Spring St., downtown L.A., Fridays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. Ends Sept. 8. $15-$20. (213) 473-0640, (213) 627-4473.