Clowes’ season

Joshua Redman, a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College who decided to apply his brilliance to the tenor saxophone instead of law school nearly 20 years ago, will open Clowes Hall’s concert season Sept. 19.

Redman will lead his trio (Matt Penman, bass; Gregory Hutchinson, drums) to start off both Clowes’ season and the 11th Indy Jazz Fest.

“Clowes Presents” will continue Oct. 10 with Ballet Hispanico and Nov. 6 with country singer Clint Black.

The 2010 part of the season opens Jan. 30 with Groovaloo, a hip-hop dance troupe, continuing Feb. 19 with banjoist Bela Fleck’s “Africa Project,” a program linked to his award-winning documentary, “Throw Down Your Heart.” The show features an ensemble of African musicians who will help Fleck focus on the banjo’s African origins.

The season concludes April 10 with an appearance by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, a London chamber orchestra of international renown founded in 1958.

All concerts begin at 8 p.m. Season subscriptions are available at $161, $140 and $119. New this season is a 4-Pack Plan, with a reduced price for buying tickets to four of the six “Clowes Presents” concerts. For more information, visit www.cloweshall.org or call (317) 940-6444.

At home with Buck Creek

Buck Creek Players’ 36th season, “On the Home Front,” will open Oct. 2 with “Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage,” described as “a horrific comic romp,” by Jane Martin. It will continue through Oct. 18 at the theater, 11150 Southeastern Ave.

Also on the six-show season will be “Home for Christmas,” an adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas’ story, opening Dec. 4 and continuing through Dec. 20; Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” (Jan. 29-Feb. 7); “The Brain from Planet X,” a musical by Bruce Kimmel and David Wechter (April 9-25); Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” (June 4-13); and “Disney’s Alice in Wonderland Junior,” a youth production (July 30-Aug. 8).

Curtain times are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets for comedies, dramas and youth productions are $14 ($12 students and seniors); for musicals, $16 ($14 students and seniors). For more information, visit www.buckcreek players.com.

Feinstein in Carmel

Tickets go on sale Monday for a benefit concert presented by the Carmel Symphony Orchestra and featuring Michael Feinstein, a cabaret performer and song archivist whose new foundation for the preservation of American popular song has been established in Carmel.

The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 in the Westfield High School auditorium.

Tickets will be sold at three price levels: The Maestro ($250) includes valet parking, preferred seating, VIP room preconcert reception and private post-concert reception with Feinstein at the Bridgewater Club; First Chair ($150) includes valet parking, preferred seating, VIP room preconcert reception; and Orchestra ($50) includes one regular admission ticket.

To reserve tickets, call (317) 844-9717.