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Weekend picks: Experience 'Shatner's World' at Paramount

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"Shatner's World: We Just Live in It ..." comes to the Paramount Theatre in Aurora for one performance on Friday, Jan. 4.

See a screening of the 2011 animated family film "The Adventures of Tintin" on Saturday, Jan. 5, at Cutting Hall in Palatine.

Wheeling native Deborah Voigt stars as Cassandra in Berlioz's epic opera "Les Troyens," which will be screened live in HD from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to movie theaters around the world on Saturday, Jan. 5.

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera

The Swordsmen ("Dirk Perfect" and "Guido Crescendo") are set to return to the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles on Saturday, Jan. 5.

American English headlines the Raue Center for the Arts in Crystal Lake on Saturday, Jan. 5.

The Chicago company Baby Wants Candy will stage a fully improvised musical for a special performance at Cutting Hall in Palatine.

See more than 2 million colorful lights at the annual "ZooLights" celebration at Lincoln Park Zoo.

Courtesy of Lincoln Park Zoo

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William Shatner fans won't want to miss his Broadway show, "Shatner's World: We Just Live in It ...," at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora Friday. Relive the '70s Saturday at “Stayin' Alive: A Tribute to the Bee Gees” at the Metropolis in Arlington Heights. Those jesting swashbucklers Dirk Perfect and Guido Crescendo — collectively known as The Swordsmen — return to Fox Valley Repertory for an evening of humor and swordplay Saturday.