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TODAY

This tour first, then Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst is one of the leading lights of rock’s young generation, but he’s one who likes to share the spotlight. Before releasing the next Bright Eyes album and touring in support of it, the singer-songwriter is on the road in a democratic collaboration with two cohorts, bluesy troubadour M. Ward and singer Jim James, from the band My Morning Jacket.

Conor Oberst, M. Ward and Jim James, Orpheum Theatre, 842 S. Broadway, L.A. 7 p.m. $18. (213) 480-3232.

FRIDAY

Show and tell

More than 55 art dealers from the U.S. and Europe set up camp this weekend at the Los Angeles Art Show to display and sell paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints by old masters and contemporary artists alike. The show is also host to a symposium series that runs throughout the course of the event and features such speakers as Gregorio Luke, director of the Museum of Latin American Art, and Mary Lenihan, LACMA’s museum educator.

Los Angeles Art Show, Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hangar, 3021 Airport Ave., Santa Monica, noon-8 p.m.

* Also noon-7 p.m. Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Sunday. $18. Schedule, list of participants: www.laartshow.com.

Dress for success

It was a time when men were men and ... well, actually, it was a time when men were men and women. In the film “Stage Beauty,” Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) is the leading lady of 1660s London theater -- women were forbidden to perform -- until King Charles II (Rupert Everett) changes the laws, sending Ned’s career into the gutter. But never fear, Ned’s lovely dresser, Maria (Claire Danes), becomes a rising actress and she has a plan to restore Ned’s manhood. So to speak.

“Stage Beauty,” R for sexual content and language, opens in selected theaters.

SATURDAY

Berlin stories

Former Walt Disney Studios Chairman Peter Schneider will direct “Grand Hotel,” the musical based on Vicki Baum’s novel about passion and intrigue among the staff and guests of a Berlin hotel in 1928. (Book by Luther Davis, music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest; additional music and lyrics by Maury Yeston.)

“Grand Hotel,” Colony Theatre Company, 555 N. 3rd St., Burbank. Opens Saturday. Runs 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays; 2 and 7 p.m. Sundays. Additional performances 3 p.m. Oct. 23 and 30; 8 p.m. Nov. 4 and 11. Ends Nov. 14. $30-$40. (818) 558-7000.

A Sample sampler

Keyboardist-composer Joe Sample, one of the founding members of the legendary Jazz Crusaders, makes a solo stop in Malibu. The Houston native’s latest album, “Soul Shadows,” was just released Tuesday and it features his musical take on some Great American Songbook classics.

Joe Sample, Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu. 8 p.m. $40. (310) 506-4522.

SUNDAY

Homey collection

“Renoir to Matisse: The Eye of Duncan Phillips” brings more than 50 works of art from the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles for the first time. Presented to evoke the domestic setting collector Duncan Phillips chose when he opened his home to the public in 1921, highlights include paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “The Luncheon of the Boating Party,” which Phillips called “the only Renoir I need.”

“Renoir to Matisse: The Eye of Duncan Phillips,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. Opens Sunday. Hours: noon-8 p.m. Monday-Tuesday and Thursday, noon-9 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; closed Wednesdays. $12-$20; 17 and younger, free. (323) 857-6000.

The pros of tomorrow

The American Youth Symphony concert Sunday marks the opening of the celebrated orchestra’s 40th anniversary season. Music director Alexander Treger conducts Beethoven’s mighty Symphony No. 9, with the Angeles Chorale and soloists. One of the leading pre-professional symphony orchestras in the country, AYS grooms its players to join the ranks of major orchestras around the world -- 11 currently play for the L.A. Philharmonic.

American Youth Symphony, Royce Hall, UCLA, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Westwood. 6 p.m. Free. (310) 234-8355.