Nadia Parvez Manzoor brings her widely traveled autobiographical solo to the Bay Area, playing many characters in the comic story of one woman's look at sex, religion, culture, identity and family, growing up in a glum British Pakistani home amid the pleasures and promise of modern London. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. $15-$20. Exit Theatre, 156 Eddy St., S.F. (415) 931-1094. www.theexit.org.
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Music: Midsummer Mozart Festival
Music director George Cleve leads an all-Mozart program with mezzo-soprano Anna Yelizarova and pianist Seymour Lipkin as soloists, along with the San Francisco Boys Chorus. $30-$65. 7:30 p.m. Friday. St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1111 O'Farrell St., S.F. 8 p.m. Saturday. First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley. 3 p.m. Sunday. Bing Concert Hall, Stanford. (415) 596-5712. www.midsummermozart.org.
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Theater: 'The Book of Liz'
Custom Made Theatre brings back its box office record-breaker for a fourth run, David and Amy Sedaris' odd comedy about what happens when Elizabeth Donderstock, maker of the most delicious cheese balls in the religious community of Clusterhaven, leaves to taste life in the outside world. 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Through Aug. 2. $30-$35. Gough Street Playhouse, 1620 Gough St., S.F. (415) 798-2682. www.custommade.org.
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Theater: 'Tough'
Isadora Duncan and Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award winner Chris Black's latest solo show - inspired by the life of boxer John L. Sullivan - examines what it means "to be strong," looking at "the special something" that athletes and performers utilize in order to become great. 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. Through Aug. 9. $20-$25. Z Below, 450 Florida St., S.F. chrisblackdance.wix.com/dance.
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Visual arts: 'Serigrafia'
This traveling show features silkscreen prints created by key members of the state's Latino printing community - including Juan R. Fuentes, Jos Sances, Favianna Rodriguez, Esther Hernandez and Yolanda Lopez. Opens Saturday; Opening discussion with curators Fuentes and Sances at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Through Sept. 7. Noon-4:30 p.m. Sunday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday and Saturday, 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, noon-5:30 p.m. Friday. Jewett Gallery, Main Library, 100 Larkin St., S.F. www.sfpl.org.
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Music: Aaron Novik 40th Birthday Celebration
For the past two decades clarinetist-composer Aaron Novik has been one of the most inventive and ambitious composers on the Bay Area scene, spearheading a series of large-scale productions setting poetry, sacred texts and film to his jazz and new music scores. He's marking his 40th birthday with a self-produced Novikpalooza starting Friday at the Center for New Music and concluding Sunday at Amnesia, where he reassembles two of his earliest bands, Gubbish and Kipple, with percussionist Moe Staiano, bassist Lisa Mezzacappa, guitarist John Finkbeiner, keyboardist Dominique Leone, vibraphonist Mark Clifford and drummers Ches Smith and Sameer Gupta (on tabla). 7:30 p.m. Friday. $15. Center for New Music, 55 Taylor St., S.F. (415) 275-2488. www.centerfornewmusic.com. 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Free. Adobe Books, 3130 24th St., S.F. (415) 864-3936. www.adobebooks.com. 9 p.m. Sunday. $10. Amnesia, 853 Valencia St., S.F. (415) 970-0012. www.amnesiathebar.com.
