THEATER
Express’ 24th season
Continuing to fight its way out of financial trouble, West Midtown troupe Actor’s Express has announced its 2011-12 season lineup: the musical “Spring Awakening,” the 2011 Humana Festival hit “Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them,” the Atlanta premiere of Broadway’s “Next Fall,” a co-production with Theatre Emory of “The Night of the Iguana,” Libby Whittemore in the fourth “Libby’s at the Express” cabaret show and the musical “Xanadu.” Subscriptions and single tickets available via 404-607-7469, www.actors-express.com. HOWARD POUSNER

ARTS
Westside facility preview
An arts facility aiming for a September opening, the Westside Cultural Arts Center celebrates with an open-to-the-public crawfish boil and construction party, 1-6 p.m. May 21. The 12,5000-square-foot building, a project of Dr. James Chappuis, an orthopedic spine surgeon, will serve as an event space for a variety of arts and will include a gallery run by Fay Gold, whose self-named gallery closed in 2009 after a prominent nearly three-decade run in Buckhead. Free. 997 Brady Ave. N.W. (between 8th and 10th streets), Atlanta. www.westsideartscenter.com. HOWARD POUSNER