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The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra plays “The Four Seasons,” May 12-14. Details here.

Hill Harper, from “CSI: NY” speaks at the Madame Walker Theatre on May 13. Details here. 

The Academy Award-nominated documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is screened at the Central Library on May 15. Art collector Brain Presnell will do the presenting. Details here.

May 14

The Jazz Kitchen

Forget the hit song “One Night in Bangkok,” Indy-rooted jazz vocalist Cherryl Hayes (yes, there are two Rs) has spent about 15 years there, using it as a base from which to play through Thailand as well as China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and more. She’ll be coming home for a one-night-only show at The Jazz Kitchen, supported by the Steve Allee Trio. For more on Hayes, click here.

May 14

Basile Theater, Indiana History Center

It’s never too late for a tribute to Mom. Kevin Kling, a staple on the storytelling circuit (and on NPR’s “All Things Considered”), comes back to town, this time with singer-accordionist Simone Perrin in tow. Details here.

May 13-14

Cabaret at the Columbia Club

Often, when Billy Stritch is onstage, the spotlight is elsewhere. That’s because he’s the go-to pianist/musical director for the likes of Linda Lavin, Lucie Arnaz and Christine Ebersole. Indy audiences may remember his terrific duet with Liza Minnelli on “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” when he joined her with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra back in January.

But even when offering his own set, Stritch doesn’t mind sharing the focus. For his appearance here at the Cabaret, he’ll be celebrating the music of Mel Torme, the legendary crooner Stritch shared the stage with at Carnegie Hall in 1988. Details here.

May 13, 15

Clowes Hall

You have to admire Giuseppe Verdi for having the guts to create the casting conundrum he created with “La Traviata.” A variation on Alexander Dumas’ “La dame aux camellias” (aka “Camile”), the opera concerns a young courtesan dying of consumption—a withering illness that requires a major suspension of disbelief to buy when the sufferer is a hefty opera diva.

No worries about that in Indianapolis Opera’s production, in which the believably proportioned Maureen O’Flynn—fresh from the Metropolitan Opera’s latest “La Boheme”—plays the consumptive Violetta. Details here.

Police said they found a half-pound of cocaine with an estimated street value of $22,000, several guns, thousands of dollars and a 10-day-old child during a raid Friday on a Noblesville home. Susana Quirino Perez, 32, is now being held on a $90,000 bond and several felony charges. Perez, an illegal immigrant, also has 8-year-old twins who were not home at the time of the arrest. Police said they found the drugs and guns in a common area accessible to the children. A male suspect is still being sought.

Six undocumented immigrants were arrested Monday night at the Indiana Statehouse as they protested two bills Gov. Mitch Daniels is expected to sign into law, according to police. The group, students between the ages of 18 and 23, were arrested for criminal trespassing after they refused to leave the Governor’s Office despite numerous warnings, police said. The protesters targeted bills that would make illegal immigrants in Indiana pay out-of-state tuition rates and crack down on employers hiring illegal immigrants.