The Contemporary Arts Center starts off the new season of its daring, innovative and always progressive "Performances" series this Thursday and Friday with the wonderful playwright-actor-performance artist-singer-songwriter Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The 20th Century Abridged/1939-2014.
8 p.m. Thursday and Friday. $20; $15 members. 44 E. Sixth St., Downtown, contemporaryartscenter.org.