Your 5 best bets for arts and culture in the week ahead

'Driving Miss Daisy'

You've seen the Oscar-winning movie. Now, here's another chance to revisit Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage original, about the unlikely friendship that blossoms between a 72-year-old Jewish widow (Joan Mullaney) and her African-American chauffeur (Mervin Kenneth Alexander Jr.) in 20th-century Atlanta. Broadway in the Hood's production plays The Smith Center's Troesh Studio Theater at 8 p.m. Friday and 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; for tickets ($34), call 702-749-2000 or visit www.thesmithcenter.com.

Double duty

Violin virtuoso Pinchas Zukerman joins London's Royal Philharmonic to play Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in The Smith Center's Reynolds Hall. But that's not all; as the orchestra's principal guest conductor, Zukerman also leads the ensemble's performances of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 and Elgar's Serenade for Strings. For tickets ($39-$119), call 702-749-2000 or go online to www.thesmithcenter.com.

Life in the middle

Will Eno's award-winning "Middletown" may be inspired by Thornton Wilder's classic "Our Town," but this contemporary comedy of small-town lives captures universal emotions percolating beneath the placid surfaces. Las Vegas Little Theatre's Mainstage production begins a three-weekend run at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday; additional performances are 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Jan. 31, with an additional Saturday matinee at 2 p.m. Jan. 23. Tickets are $25 ($20 for season subscribers) and may be purchased by calling 702-362-7996 or visiting www.LVLT.org.

World on a 'String'

They may represent different musical traditions, but Paraguayan harpist Mariano Gonzalez, Senegalese kora player Toumany Kouyate and Chinese musician Hong Wang — who plays both stringed and wind instruments of Asia — team up to create new world music at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 McLeod Drive. For tickets ($10 in advance, $12 on concert day), call 702-455-7340 or click on www.clarkcountynv.gov.

Genre-bender

Singer, songwriter — and cellist — Shana Tucker specializes in what she calls ChamberSoul, inspired by her jazz and classical roots and interwoven with everything from '80s and '90s pop to world music. She's opened for Norah Jones and the Indigo Girls, but the Nevada Arts Council Performing Arts Fellowship winner is the star attraction at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Charleston Heights Arts Center, 800 S. Brush St. For tickets ($10 in advance, $15 at the door) and more information, visit www.artslasvegas.org or call 702-229-6383.