LOCALLY:

High school softball playoffs

Friday and Saturday

Pflugerville High School takes on San Antonio Churchill at Pflugerville High Friday at 7 p.m. and noon Saturday, with a possible third game to follow later Saturday afternoon.

Hendrickson High takes on Austin Crockett Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Garrison Field, 6001 Manchaca Road, Austin, and at 11 a.m. Saturday at Hendrickson High, with a possible third game to follow at 1 p.m. if necessary.

Tickets range from $2 (students) to $4 (adults).

Pflugerville Pfarmers Market

May 4-Aug. 24

Heritage Park

Customers will now shop in the eco-friendly renewable energy structure known as the Green Red Barn. Enjoy shopping for locally grown, organic produce, meat products, food items and baked goods. Visit pflugervillefarmersmarket.com or call 251-5082.

Deutschen Pfest

May 14-16

Pfluger Park

Headliners for this year’s event include Bruce Robison and Dale Watson. The annual event includes music and dancing, parades, fun runs and plenty of food. Visit cityofpflugerville.com/dpfest for details.

EVENTS

Barnes & Noble La Frontera

Great Oaks Elementary Barnes & Noble Bookfair

April 30-May 2

Events include poetry reading at 2 p.m., face painting and games at 3:30 p.m. Proceeds will go to the Great Oaks Library.

Free Comic Book Day

Saturday, May 1

Rogue’s Gallery book store – Round Rock

The ninth annual Free Comic Book Day at comic book retailers across the country. Visit roguesgallerytx.com for details.

Book-signing: Susan Violante

May 1 @ 2 p.m.

Barnes & Noble Round Rock

The author of “Innocent War” will sign copies. The event is free and open to the public.

Paramount Theatre – Austin

“Stomp”

May 4-9

With matchboxes, wooden poles, brooms, garbage cans, Zippo lighters, hubcaps, “Stomp” fills the stage with rhythms. Tickets range from $30-$51. Visit austintheatre.org.

Smucker’s “Stars on Ice Tour”

Cedar Park Center

May 12

The tour will include 2009 men’s world champion Evan Lysacek, 2006 Olympic silver medalists Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto, and 2006 Olympic silver medalist Sasha Cohen. They will be joined by six-time national champion Todd Eldredge, two-time world bronze medalist Michael Weiss and more.

For tickets, visit cedarparkcenter.com or call 1-800-745-3000.

MOVIES

Opening this week:

“Furry Vengeance”

Brendan Fraser stars as a real estate developer whose new project sets off an epic, all-out war with the local forest creatures.

“A Nightmare on Elm Street”

Jackie Earle Haley stars as the razor-fingered boogey man Freddy Krueger, in a new remake of the 1980s horror classic.

COMING SOON

“Iron Man 2” (May 7)

“Shrek Forever After” (May 21)

ON DVD

“It’s Complicated”

“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”

THEATRE

Palace Theatre – Georgetown

“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”

May 7-9, 14-16, 21-23, 28-30, June 4-6

The play, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and directed locally by Mary Ellen Butler, brings to vibrant life the Biblical saga. Tickets range from $8 (children 15 and under) to $22 (general admission). Visit thegeorgetownpalace.org or call (512) 869-7469.

COMEDY

Frank Erwin Center – Austin

Rickey Smiley and Friends

May 28

Tickets range from $25-$50 and go on sale March 27 at 10 a.m.

Jeff Dunham

June 26 @ 8 p.m.

Tickets are $40.50.

To purchase tickets, visit H-E-B stores, call 477-6060 or 1-800-982-2386 or go online to TexasBoxOffice.com.

ARTS

H.J. Lutcher Stark Center – University of Texas at Austin

“Our Body: The Universe Within” educational exhibit

April 24-Oct. 1

Bodies, specimens and organs have been preserved using a process known as polymer impregnation. Exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets range from $16-$21. Visit texasperformingarts.org.

MUSIC

Frank Erwin Center – Austin

Carrie Underwood

May 12 @ 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for the event range from $35-$55.

“Star Wars: In Concert”

June 6 @ 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Tickets range from $35 to $100.

Tickets for all events are on sale at H-E-B stores, by phone at 477-6060 and 1-800-982-2386 and online at TexasBoxOffice.com.

Long Center – Austin

Austin Lyric Opera’s “Hansel and Gretel”

April 30 @ 7:30 p.m., May 2 @ 3 p.m.

Tickets range from $20-$200. For tickets, visit austinlyricopera.org or call 472-5992.

University of Texas Bass Concert Hall – Austin

Van Morrison

April 30 @ 8 p.m.

Tickets range from $85-$350.

Visit texasperformingarts.org.