After a rhino runs down his parents, James is sent to live with his wretched aunts, until a giant peach and a rag-tag band of singing insects send him on an ocean adventure. The BPA Theatre School’s summer offering runs 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday with a matinee show at 3 p.m. Saturday.

If anyone can convert Mark Twain, who once compared the “incoherent noise” of an unfamiliar opera to “that time the orphan asylum burned down,” it’s Norm Hollingshead. Since 1976, the retired school teacher has been sharing his love of arias in preview lectures around town. Saturday, he’s at the Bainbridge Public Library, breaking down Rossini’s “Le Comte Ory,” which is definitely R-rated. (An over-sexed French nobleman will not rest until he seduces a notoriously proper countess. Plot’s a twee more complicated because his page is into her, too.) Talk begins at 2.

You’ve waited nine years for this day: J.K. Rowling finally has another Harry Potter tale for you. Only, it’s not exactly a book – it’s the script for a five-hour play – and Rowling’s really only a co-author. The $30 script drops at 12:01 a.m. on the heroic wizard’s birthday (Sunday, obviously). Stop by Eagle Harbor Books from 9 to 11 a.m. July 31 for a Ministry of Magic-themed breakfast and to purchase your copy of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”