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By EMILEE KLEIN

“Reset!”

Eggtooth Productions will present Sarah Ruhl’s “Orlando,” an adaptation of the famous Virginia Woolf novel, at the Academy of Music on Saturday, May 17, at 7:30 p.m.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Moroccan abstract artist Younes Rahmoun has shown work in more than 100 exhibition spaces internationally, but his first ever North American exhibition is on display right here in the Pioneer Valley.

Pioneer Valley Ballet’s adaptation of “Aladdin and His Magic Lamp” will play at the Academy of Music on Saturday, May 10, at 1 and 4:30 p.m.

By RICHARD MCCARTHY

I’ve come to believe there can be a profound and potent human connection in laughter. Shared humor and hatefulness toward someone don’t mix very well. The poet Alan Ginsberg used the phrase “real holy laughter” in his epic poem “Howl,” and I can identify with that wording.

By CAROLYN BROWN

Hands Across the Valley Quilt Guild, an Amherst-based quilting group, will have its biennial show on Saturday, May 3, and Sunday, May 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hampshire College’s Robert Crown Center Gymnasium. The show will feature more than 200 quilts by local quilters.

Valley Players’ third “Bard in the Bar” reading will be on Sunday, May 4, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at Progression Brewing in Northampton.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

LEVERETT — A couple was displaced from their home at 101 Teawaddle Hill Road Tuesday night after a fire caused a partial collapse of the single-story house.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Frank Martin has finalized his roster, and the fourth-year UMass men’s basketball coach went out with a bang for his final commit.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Lucky drivers on the Mass Pike may look out their windshield to see an industrial-sized recycling container with brightly-colored murals of people gardening in upcycled tire planters, critters playing on the Jabish Brook or even the beloved buildings of Belchertown rather than the typical blue, green and brown neutrals.

By EMILEE KLEIN

AMHERST — When UMass Permaculture organizes its weekly student farmers markets in spring and fall, vendors interested in selling their wares must act fast to scoop up the limited number of spots.

By CAROLYN BROWN

EASTHAMPTON — The city will bid farewell to its outgoing poet laureate, Carolyn Cushing, and welcome its new poet laureate, Carolyn Zaikowski, this weekend.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

In one sculpture made from fired terracotta, with a natural patina, life holds and cradles life. In another sculpture, life holds and grasps death.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Many UMass men’s basketball fans were waiting patiently for a fourth-year head coach Frank Martin to make a big splash in the transfer portal, and on Thursday afternoon, he certainly did.

The all-ages Western New England Music Festival will be at the De la Luz Soundstage in Holyoke on Sunday, April 27. It will include workshops from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and live music from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — April showers bring May flowers, but foliage isn’t the only thing blooming in South Hadley after a windy winter and early spring rain.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — UMass men’s basketball head coach Frank Martin landed a pair of commitments on Wednesday, as forwards Dimitri Clerc and Charles Outlaw – former junior college players – transferred to UMass out of the portal. That now makes four Minutemen transfers coming in (joining K’Jei Parker and Donovan Brown), and all four have either been from JUCO or Division 2.

The Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail will have its annual studio tour on Saturday, April 26, and Sunday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

By CAROLYN BROWN

A new festival for young people and the arts is coming to Northampton.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — There are now a total of 11 players in the transfer portal from last year’s UMass men’s basketball team, as forward Daniel Rivera added to the laundry list this week.

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Symphony Orchestra recently announced the winners of its Concerto/Aria Competition. Daniel Ryu, a graduate student; Laura Wang, a freshman; and Robert Grahmann, a graduate student, will perform with the UMass Symphony Orchestra on Friday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Tillis Hall.