This week: Best bets around the area

FRIDAY

Edmonds

Seattle International Comedy Competition

The Comedy Underground brings top regional comics for a night of stand-up fun at 7:30 p.m. at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N. Tickets are $26 general, $24 seniors and adult students with ID, $13 youths, available at the box office or at 425-275-9595. Information: www.edmondscenterforthearts.org.

SUNDAY

Edmonds

Seattle Opera Young Artists program

The showcase for young opera singers presents Gaetano Donizetti's "Rita" and Leonard Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti" at 7:30 p.m. at the Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N. Tickets are $22 general, $20 seniors and adult students with ID, and $11 youths, at the box office or 425-275-9595. Information: www.edmondscenterforthearts.org.

SUNDAY

Everett

Katie Couric's "The Brand New Kid"

Village Theatre Pied Piper presents the Kennedy Center musical about Lazlo, the second-grade "new kid," at 2 and 4 p.m. at the Everett Civic Auditorium, 2415 Colby Ave. (School shows are 10 a.m. and noon Monday.) Tickets are $12-$14 by contacting Village Theatre at 425-257-8600 or www.villagetheatre.org.