EVENT
Circo Osorio
Ever spent a resentful, hung-over day wishing you could just disappear â€" maybe run off and join the circus? Starting Friday, marvel at those who dared to live that dream. Hide your kiddies, or bring them! The circus is in town â€" the Circo Osorio, that is. All the bells and whistles one expects from a circus will be out in full force: funny clowns (coulrophobics should stay home), wire-walkers, death-defying trapeze artists, mesmerizing jugglers, and an eccentric ringmaster. It’s all wrapped around a European-style one-ring show. â€" Brad Allen
[B&I Shopping Center, July 11-14, 6 and 8 p.m., 80th and South Tacoma Way, Lakewood, 253.584.2056]

STAGE
Peter Pan
Capital Playhouse is staging its version of Peter Pan this weekend only. Something of note for this show is that Flying by Foy, the company best known for bringing theatrical flying to Broadway in 1950, will be doing the stage magic for the production so Peter, Wendy, John, Michael â€" and even Liza â€" will float magically across the stage to Never Never Land in ways generally left to the imagination during performances at local theaters. â€" Steve Dunkelberger
[Capital Playhouse, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, also 2 p.m. Sunday, $10-$15, South Puget Sound Community College’s KJM Center for the Arts, 2011 Mottman Road, Olympia, 360.943.2744, www.capitalplayhouse.com]

ROCK
Kids of Widney High
Widney High is a special education high school in Los Angeles for developmentally disabled kids. Since the creation of a songwriting class in the late ’80s, the Kids of Widney High have been charming the world with their rock and roll offerings â€" which include endearingly genuine tracks like “Let’s Get Busy,” “I Make My Teachers Mad,” “Doctor Doctor,” “Pretty Girls,” “Insects,” and a fittingly tweaked and retooled cover of Aretha Franklin’s “Respect.”  If you know what’s good for you, you’ll check out what the Kids of Widney High have to offer. It’s a powerful and entertaining package, to say the least. â€" Matt Driscoll
[Capitol Theater, 8:30 p.m., all ages, no cover, 206 Fifth Ave. S.E., Olympia, 360.754.5378]

METAL
Lurid
Apparently I’m not the only one who still listens to vintage metal as Tacoma’s own Lurid resurrects the nasty guitar licks of Sabbath, Maiden, and Priest while updating its sound for a new generation. Sporting a shaved head, baggy jeans and black T-shirts, vocalist Tony Dodge looks like your typical modern metal front man but unlike some metal contemporaries, this band actually has a singer who can sing and does not solely relay on speed and volume. â€" Tony Engelhart
[Hell’s Kitchen, with Negative 7, Focuspoint, and Angelo Fawcett, 9 p.m., $5, 3829 Sixth Ave., Tacoma, 253.759.6003]

LINK: Space Creatures From The Year 3000 and others in the clubs tonight.
LINK: New flicks open today.
LINK: Let’s eat at a wine bar today.