Go Out: Things to do in Memphis for February 22 to 28

FRIDAY 

Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan plays the Orpheum on Friday. The Grammy winner and Lilith Fair founder has sold some 40 million albums worldwide, from her 1997 debut, "Touch," to her 2016 release, "Wonderland."  Tickets for the show are $42 to $82.  Available at all Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com or by calling (800) 745-3000. Showtime is 8 p.m. 

The Orpheum is at 203 S. Main Street. 

SATURDAY 

Touted (not for the first, and possibly not the last time) as a kind of long goodbye, theatrical rockers KISS bring their farewell “End of the Road World Tour” to the FedExForum on Saturday. The group – led by founding members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons – is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. start. Tickets start at $44 and go up to nearly $1000. To purchase go to ticketmaster.com or call (800) 745-3000. 

FedExForum is at 190 Beale Street. 

SUNDAY 

Lafayette’s Music Room hosts a concert by Tupelo, Mississippi singer- songwriter Paul Thorn on Sunday night. Thorn – the boxer turned tunesmith – has created a compelling catalog over this 22-year, 11-album career. His latest, the gospel-flecked made-in-Muscle Shoals LP, “Don’t Let the Devil Ride,” might be his best yet. Tickets $30 in advance, $35 at the door. Doors open at 6 p.m. Showtime is 7:45 p.m. Purchase at lafayettes.com/memphis 

Lafayette’s is at 2119 Madison Avenue. 

What better way to enjoy the 91st annual Academy Awards ceremony than at the second annual Indie Memphis "Red Carpet Party," a fund-raising event to benefit the city's premier film organization? Admission includes "red carpet" photo opportunities, a taco bar dinner, a "Beat Beifuss" Oscar-picking prize contest, and more; and, of course,  there's a bar, to help transform even the dopiest bit of scripted banter into a laugh riot. The Oscars ceremony itself will be shown on the venue's multiple large screens, the better to critique the evening gowns and accessorized tuxedos of the celebrity presenters and honorees.

6 p.m., The Rec Room, 3000 Broad. Admission: $25, or $50 (VIP). Visit indiememphis.com.

TUESDAY

The Central Library's "I Read That Movie @ the Library" Book Club partners with the city's Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and the National Institute of Health's All of Us medical research program for a screening of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," an HBO production from 2017 that stars Oprah Winfrey as Lacks' daughter, Deborah Lacks, and Rose Byrne as author Rebecca Skloot. The movie is an adaptation of former University of Memphis professor Skloot's nonfiction best-seller about the African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first "immortal cell line" used by researchers to fight cancer. An audience participation discussion comparing the book and the movie follows the screening, along with a panel discussion about the significance of Henrietta Lacks, featuring health ethics experts and representatives of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Copies of the book are available at the library's Humanities Desk, for those who want to check it out and read it before the screening.

2 p.m., Meeting Room A, Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 3030 Poplar. Admission: free. Call 901-415-2726.

WEDNESDAY

This year's edition of the Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival concludes with "A Bag of Marbles," a recent French drama from director Christian Duguay (whose résumé includes everything from "Scanners" sequels to a Joan of Arc biopic) about two young Jewish brothers who — "in a mid-boggling mix of mischievousness, courage and ingenuity," according to the film's production notes — make their way through Nazi-occupied France to be reunited with their parents. To quote from the San Francisco Chronicle review: "This isn't the first film to try to deal with the horrors of the Holocaust from a child's perspective, but it's tricky material, and this one succeeds because it is direct and forthright."

7 p.m., Ridgeway Cinema Grill. Tickets: $7, or free for MJCC members. Visit jccmemphis.org.

THURSDAY

In partnership with Indie Memphis, the black arts organization The CLTV (Collective) hosts a screening of writer-director Rashaad Ernesto Green's acclaimed "Gun Hill Road," a 2011 Sundance-debuted drama about an ex-convict (Esai Morales) who returns to his Bronx home to discover that his teenage child (Harmony Santana) is transitioning into a transgender identity. Also on the bill will be Nubia Yasin's Memphis-made short, "Sensitive," plus a panel discussion on "toxic masculinity."

7 p.m., The CMPLX, 2234 Lamar. Admission: free. Visit indiememphis.com.

Described by promoters as a "one-of-a-kind, immersive storytelling" event, "XQ Super School Live" comes to Memphis for a multimedia theater-plus-art presentation intended to encourage young people to develop creative ideas and projects for their high schools. Organized by Pop-Up Magazine Productions (described as a "live" magazine) and XQ Institute (working to "reimagine" high school education in the U.S.), the event features writers, filmmakers, actors on others onstage, sharing inspirational ideas and "multimedia adventures."

6:30 p.m. (doors), 7:30 (show), Crosstown Theater, Crosstown Concourse. Tickets: $19. Visit eventbrite.com.