Music Director Ben DiShibio

At the Agassiz Theater

Tonight at 8; tomorrow night at 2 and 8

Princess Ida is Sullivan's first work as "Sir Arthur," and it focuses on the early struggle surrounding women's education. An "Amazonian bastion of learning" astounds English male-dominated culture in a hilarious comedy between the sexes which, although not one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most famous pieces, is often billed as one of their funniest. Shows are through Sunday night and continue next weekend at the Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Quad.

Tom Thumb

By Henry Fielding

The Great Catherine

By George Bernard Shaw

Directed by Jenny Lyn Bader and Elliot Thompson

At the Lowell JCR

Tonight at 8 and 11; tomorrow night at 8

The Lowell JCR hosts two comedies this weekend, Tom Thumb and The Great Catherine. Tom Thumb is a parody of Elizabethan drama in which the finger-sized hero falls in love with King Arthur's little known daughter, Huncamunca. George Bernard Shaw's The Great Catherine parodies a stuffy British man's encounter with the nymphomaniacal Russian Empress. Both dramas are one-act plays that Bader and Thompson have set against colorful circus surroundings. These performances run through next weekend in Lowell House.

True West

By Sam Shepard

Directed by Jed Weintrob