Datebook

Thursday-Sunday
( January 30-February 2)

A still-optimistic spinster falls for a handsome burglar in Menotti’s charming comic opera The Old Maid and the Thief.
8:00 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Arena Theater, HUB. $13, $9 students/seniors/LVAIC members. Ext. 1489.

Friday, January 31
Brad Sherwood, improv comedian of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, thinks on his feet at 8:00 p.m., Johnston Hall. $12 general public, $5 students. Ext. 1491.

Thursday, February 6
Four nursing students and two professors who spent their holiday break at a jungle hospital in Ahuas, Honduras, describe the experience and offer a light Latino meal as well. 6:00 p.m., Snyder Room, HUB. Ext. 1607.

Chilean photographer and installation artist Alfredo Jaar will discuss his work, including photos of the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath (above), at 7:30 p.m., Prosser Auditorium, HUB. He’ll meet with art students 10 a.m.-noon Friday in Payne Gallery. Ext. 1680.

Saturday, February 8
Spend an evening on Bourbon Street at the fifth annual Mardi Gras Dance. Black tie. Complimentary hors d’œuvres, coffee, desserts. Music by Holiday Sounds. Rsvp by Friday, January 31: Ext. 1366, 800 441-3195, or alumrel@moravian.edu.8:00 p.m.-midnight, Hotal Radisson, Bethlehem.

Monday, February 10
World travelers Ruth ’41 and Michael Fidorack offer a slide-lecture that journeys “From Mauritius to Bhutan” and focuses on religious practices: a Cavadee festival in North Africa, the refinishing of a golden Buddha in Myanmar, Indians bathing in the River Ganges, a Christmas service on the Arctic Circle in Finland, Jews at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. 7:00 p.m., Prosser Auditorium, HUB. Free. Dinner ($7.70), 6:15 p.m., UBC Room.