Think your family's insane? Head over to the Loeb Ex this weekend and check out George F. Walker's Escape from Happiness. Mary Ann believes baking chocolate cakes will appease a malevolent shadow, burglars are hiding pornography in the basement, and it only gets crazier from there. If nothing else, it's sure to make you think twice about your own crazy home life.

If you're looking for something a little further from home, then take a walk to the Fogg Museum Indoor Courtyard to see Antonio Cesti's baroque opera Orontea. Produced by the Harvard Early Music Society and performed with period instruments, Orontea tells the story of an Egyptian queen who vows that she will never marry. But of course such a vow is bound to change. This is opera, after all. Complications ensue but at last nupital vows prevail. Look at today's preview story for more information.

For a more modern musical experience, be sure not to miss Sweet Charity on the Loeb Mainstage and Kiss of the Spider Woman at the Agassiz Theater. Check out today's reviews and stories for more information.

And for a more modern look at love, you can turn to A Language of Their Own in the Leverett Old Library Theater. See today's review for more information.