The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 15-March 21 (film listings on page four)
Thursday
The Misanthrope--Lehman Hall, 8 p.m.
Thebes Like Us--Leverett House Old Library Theater, 8 p.m.
Bonjour La, Bonjour--Eliot House Dining Hall, 8:15 p.m.
Overtures in Asia Minor--Hasty Pudding Theater, 8 p.m.
Paradise Remanded, or Replevin Can Wait--Pound Building, Law School, 8 p.m.
The Shadow Box--Charles Playhouse, 76 Warrenton Street, 8 p.m.
The National Mime Theater--Boston Arts Group, 367 Boylston St., 8 p.m.
The Three Sisters--Loeb Drama Center, 8 p.m.
Twelfth Night--Emerson Theater Company, 130 Beacon St., 8 p.m.
Ain't Misbehavin'--Wilbur Theater, 8 p.m.
All-Night Strut--Boston Repertory Theater, 8 p.m.
The Yellow Wallpaper--Boston Arts Group Theater, 367 Boylston Street, 8 p.m.
McCarty Erickson--Peter Middleton, flute Performing Avant-qarde flute techniques, New England Conservatory, 290 Huntington Ave., 7 p.m., New England Conservatory Repertory Orchestra will perform works of Berlioz. Ravel, and Wagner, 8 p.m.
Bach, Colperin, Telemann, Jenkins, Hume--baroque chamber music, old South Church in Copley Square, 8 p.m.
Instrumental Performance Concert--John LaPorta, Berklee Recital Hall, 1140 Boylston Hall, 4 p.m. Stephen Bauer, pianist, 7:30 p.m.
Bill Staines, Dave Mollet--Passim
Carol Goodman, Paul Rishell--The Idler
Seabird--Jacks, 952 Mass. Av., Cambridge
Second Wind--Oxford Ale House
The Estes Boys--Jonathan Swift's
Anita O'Day--Lulu White Supper Club, 3 Appleton St.
Tribute to Bird-Trane-Mingus--Jaki Byard, Dick Johnson, Billy Pierce, Billy Thompson, Stanton Davis, Boots Maleson, and Semenyk McCord; Emmannuel Church, Boton, 8 p.m.
Muddy Waters--The Paradise, 967 Commonwealth Ave.
Plasmatics--The Rat, 538 Commonwealth Ave.
999 Unnatural Axe--Inn Square Men's Bar, 1350 Cambridge St.
To Have and to Hold--Cecil Andrus, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Kennedy School of Government, 8 p.m.
Human Rights and Foreign Policy--Sean McBride, founder of Amnesty International, Harvard 201, 8 p.m.
Law School Forum--Dean Rusk, former U.S. Secretary of State, Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, 8 p.m.
Reflections on the Congressional Investigation of Korean-American Relations--Edward Baker, former staff member, Frazer subcommittee, U.S. Congress, 2 Divinity Avenue., 8 p.m.
The Climate and the Planets--Richard M. Goody, Mallinckrodt Professor of Planetan Physics, Science Center D, 8 p.m.
Poetry Reading--Thomas Lux, author of "The Glassblower's Breath," Lamont Poetry Room, 8 p.m.
Friday
The Misanthrope--8 p.m.
Thebes Like Us--8 and 11:30 p.m.
Bonjour La, Bonjour--8:15 p.m.
Overtures in Asia Minor--8 p.m.
Paradise Remanded, or Replevin Can Wait--8 p.m.
The Great American Backstage Musical--Boston Comedy Playhouse, comer of Berkeley and Marlboro Streets, 8 p.m.
The Shadow Box--8 p.m.
The National Mime Theater--8 p.m.
The Three Sisters--8 p.m.
Twelfth Night--8 p.m.
Ain't Misbehavin'--8 p.m.
All-Night Strut--7 and 9:30 p.m.
The Yellow Wallpaper/I Can Feel The Air--8 p.m.
Die Fledermaus--Lowell House Dining Hall, 8:15 p.m.
Baroque composers--Luigi Tagliavini, organist, Memorial Church, 8:30 p.m.
Sweelinck, Baxtennde, Pachelbel, Bach--Jonathan Barnhart, organ, King's Chapel, 58 Tremont St., Boston, 11 p.m.
Basically Bach Concert--Collegium Chamber Orchestra, Sanders Theater, 8:30 p.m.
Bill Staines plus Dave Mallet--Passim
Carol Goodman, Paul Rishell--The Idler
Seabird--Jacks
Second Wind--Oxford Ale House
The Estes Boys--Jonathan Swift's
Phil Wilson and Andy McGlee--Lulu White Supper Club
Francis Nizzari & Northwind--improvisational jazz, Dunster House, 5:30 p.m.
The Quintet--1369 Cambridge St.
Boston Globe Jazz Festival--Dave Brubeck Quartet, plus Woody Herman and the Young Thunderin' Herd, Symphony Hall, 8 p.m.
Music at the Flower Garden--Landmark Inn, North Quincy Market
Ron Levy Bluesman Band--Inn Square Men's Bar, 1350 Cambridge St.
Mary Travers--The Paradise
Plasmatics--The Rat
Women in Catholic Education--Harriet Switzer, president of Maryville College, Agassiz House, 4:15 p.m.
Should the U.S. Agree to U.N. Control of Undersea Mining--The Advocates, Kennedy School of Government.
Urban Economic Development--Conference includes James Peterson, executive director, National Council for Urban Economic Development; and Robert Hall, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, Gund Hall, 11 a.m.
Growing Up in Pre-War Warsaw: Personal Reminiscences--Richard Pipes Jr, Frank B. Professor of History, PBH, 8:45 p.m.
Development in Riches and Scarcity: Saudi Arabian and Pakistan Experiences--Ralph Braibant, Duke University, 26 Trowbridge St., 4 p.m.
Saturday
The Misanthrope--Lehman Hall, 8 p.m.
Thebes Like Us--8 p.m.
Bonjour La, Bonjour--8:15 p.m.
Overtures in Asia Minor--5 and 9 p.m.
Paradise Remanded, or Replevin Can Walt--8 p.m.
The Great American Backstage Musical--7 and 9:30 p.m.
The Shadow Box--7 and 10 p.m.
The National Mime Theater--8 p.m.
The Three Sisters--8 p.m.
Twelfth Night--8 p.m.
All Night Strut--7 and 9:30 p.m.
The Yellow Wallpaper/I Can Feel The Air--8 p.m.
Die Fledermaus--8:15 p.m.
Bartok, Mozart, Beethoven--Robin Avery '80, piano; Larry Wu '80, violin; Dunster House Library, 5:30 p.m.
Bach Society Orchestra--Works of Brahms, Mozart, Chausson, Stravinsky; Sanders Theater, 8:30 p.m.
Works of Beethoven, Mozart, and Vivaldi--Burgundian Ensemble of New York; Boris Bloch, 1978 first prize winner in the Busoni competition, piano; Douglas Montgomery, piano; paine Hall, 8 p.m.
Bill Staines, Dave Mallet--Passim
Patty Larkin--The Idler
Seabird--Jacks
Second Wind--Oxford Ale House
The Estes Boys--Jonathan Swift's
Phil Wilson and Andy McGlee--Lulu White Supper Club
The Quintet--1369 Jazz Club
Herbie Hancock--with his All Star 1979 Funk Tour Group, Berklee Performance Center, 7:30 and 10 p.m.
Ron Levy Bluesman Band--Inn Square Men's Bar
Dave Jackson Trio--Ryle's
Paul Thompson--contemporary vocal, Landmark Inn
Mark Janifer Quintet--Holmes Living Room, 2 p.m.
Sass Tim Krekel--The Paradise
Plasmatics--The Rat
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Halian Organ works--Luigi Tagliavini, Appleton chapel, 10 a.m.
Supreme Court Conference--Kenneth Clark, Thomas Atkins, Martin Kilson, Robert Segal, Myron Farber, and Robert Bonin; ARCO forum, Kennedy School of Government, 10 a.m.
Miscellaneous
Supreme Court Conference--ARCO Forum, Kennedy School of Government, 10 a.m.
St. Patrick's Day Backstage at the Loeb--instructional stage--craft workshops, 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Boston Repertory Ballet--John Hancock Hall, 8 p.m.
Celtic Society--Mather House Dining Hall, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday
Overtures in Asia Minor--8 p.m.
The Shadow Box--3 and 7:30 p.m.
The National Mime Theater--3 p.m.
The Three Sisters--2:30 p.m.
Twelfth Night--8 p.m.
Ain't Misbehavin'--3 and 8 p.m.
Romantic piano trios--Teddy Tong '79, violin; Stephanie Jacob '79, piano; Andy Calkins '79, cello, Dunster House Library, 3 p.m.
Harvard University Choir--spring concert; Memorial Church, 4 p.m.
Bach, Poulenc, Reinecke--Alan Weiss, flute; Elizabeth Lee '80, piano; Adams House, 4 p.m.
Handel Festival--The Masterworks Chorale, Old West church, Boston, 3 p.m.
Mozart, Beethoven, Wieniawski, Bartok--Rovin Avery '80, piano, Lawrence Wu '80, violin; Leverett House JCR, 3 p.m.
Bach-- James Johnson, organ: Busch-Reisinger Museum, 3 p.m.
Flutist Stephanie Jutt--Jordan Hall, 3 p.m.
La Serva Padrova--comic opera, St. Stephen's Church, North End, Boston, 3 p.m.
Bartok, Lerdahl, Schonberg--Julliard Spring Quartet, Sanders Theater, 8:30 p.m.
Bizet, Brahms and Ravel--Deborah Callas, vocalist: Quincy House JCR, 3 p.m.
Bill Staines plus Dave Mallet--Passim
Hakansson and Towie--The Idler Lilith--Jacks
Kuumba Singers--University Lutheran Church, 66 Winthrop St., 7:30 p.m.
Second Wind--Oxford Ale House
Dollar Brand--Lulu White Supper Club
American Song Program--Sarah Vaughan. Mel Torme, Gerry Mulligan and others; Symphony Hall, 7:30 and 10:30 p.m.
Ron Levy Bluesman Band--Inn Square Men's Bar
Bill Payne's Boston Jazz Band--Copley's Bar, Boston
Dave Jackson Trio--Ryle's, Cambridge
Peixoto and Deners--Landmark Inn
Hammer--The Paradise
Boston Public Schools: Past, Present and Future--John D. O'Bryant, Community Church of Boston, 602 Commonwealth Ave., 11 a.m.
Yiddish in the Culture of Eastern Europe--Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold, director, H-R Hillel, PBH, 12 noon.
Miscellaneous
Avon Championships of Boston [Tennis]--singles and doubles finals, Boston Garden, 3 p.m.
Monday
Brahms and Bach--William Owen at St. John's Chapel, 99 Brattle St., 12:10 p.m.
The Zaitchik Brothers and Matt "Guitar"
Murphy--Jonathan Swift's
Lilith--Jacks
Zamba--The Idler
Strutt--Oxford Ale House
Boomtown Rats--The Paradise
Aspects of the Nuclear Controversy--Professor David Rose of MIT, Science Center D, 4:30 p.m.
Poetry Reading with X.J. Kennedy--Winthrop JCR, 8 p.m.
Wu Pin, Influences from Euope, and the Northern Sung Revival--Jakes Cahill, Norton lecturer, Science Center p.m.
Thesis Into Book--Barbera Ankany, editor, MIT Press; and Margarett Fulton, humanities editor, Harvard University Press, Cronkhite Graduate Center, 12 noon.
The Canadian Video Text System--Doug Parkhill, assistant deputy minister for communications, Canadian Ministry of Communications, Room 241, Aiken Computation Lab, 4 p.m.
Tuesday
Overtures in Asia Minor--8 p.m.
The Shadow Box--8 p.m.
Ain't Misbehavin'--8 p.m.
All Night Strut--8 p.m.
John Cage: Music From 1933-1978--Boston Music Viva program at the Longy School in Cambridge, 5 and 8:30 p.m.
13th Century French and Spanish Music--Museum of Fine Arts, Gallery 11-51, 7 p.m.
Lilith--Jacks
City Ladies Country Quartet--The Idler
Strutt--Oxford Ale House
Eric Anderson--Jonathan Swift's
Ahmad Jamal--Lulu White's
999 Unnatural Axe--The Paradise
Other People's Mail: Collecting Letters--Sally Fitzgerald, Agassiz House, 4 p.m.
Theoretical Physics in the Netherlands: Lorentz, Ehrenfast, and their Successors--Hendrick B.G. Casimir, president emeritus, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Science Center A, 4:30 p.m.
Demographic Influence on American Education--Francis Keppel, senior lecturer, Graduate School of Education, 9 Bow St., 12:15 p.m.
Some Facets of the Cancer Problem--James Cairns, director, imperial Cancer Research Fund, Science Center B, 5 p.m.
Wednesday
A Chorus Line [Preview]--Schubert Theater 7:30 p.m.
Overtures in Asia Minor--8 p.m.
The Shadow Box--8 p.m.
Bittersweet--Church of All Nations, 333 Tremont St., 8 p.m.
Ain't Misbehavin'--2 and 8 p.m.
All Night Strut--8 p.m.
The Three Sisters--8 p.m.
Byrd's Mass For Five Voices--Christa Rakich, Organist, Memorial Church, 9 p.m.
The Ariel Ensemble--Sanders Theater, 8:30 p.m.
How to Chagne a Fiat Tire--traditional Irish-Scottish music, Passim
Zonkaraz--Jacks
Jon McDonald--The Idler
Thumper--Oxford Ale House
The Stomper--Jonathan Swift's
Ahmad Jamal--Lulu White's
Robert Gordon, Robin Lane, and The Chartbusters--The Paradise
Poetry Reading--Jean Mazzaro, Boylston Auditorium, 8 p.m.
The Origins of the Palestinian Patriarchate: A New Solution--David Goodblatt, senior lecturer, Haifa University, Emerson 108, 4 p.m.
The Reality of Atoms--Hendrik B.G. Casimir, president emeritus, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, Science Center D, 4:30 p.m.
Religious Traditions in India--Diana L. Eck, assistant professor of Hindu Religion, 3 Church St., 8 p.m.
Aerial Photography: The Art of Seeing--Donald Belcher, professor emeritus, Cornell University, Gund Hall, 7:30 p.m.