Ever wanted to know how peanut butter and jelly was created? Find out in the musical comedy “Peanut Butter and Juliet” by the Currier House Drama Society. The world premiere of the show combines the stories of two great loves—Romeo and Juliet and PB&J—and sets them in the time of a Southern interstate sandwich shop feud. This comedy should be appetizing…or appalling. Tickets available from the Harvard Box Office. $8; students and seniors $5; children 8 and younger free. 8 p.m. Currier House Fishbowl, 64 Linnaean Street. (KMM)

BOOKS | Ha Jin

The National Book Award winner will be reading from War Trash, his new novel. It is a powerful, unflinching story that opens a window on an unknown aspect of a little-known war—the experiences of Chinese POWs held by Americans during the Korean conflict—and paints an intimate portrait of conformity and dissent against a sweeping canvas of confrontation. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Bookstore, 1256 Mass. Ave. (JJH)

Ongoing

THEATER | The Rocky Horror Show

In case you just can’t do the “Time Warp” at the Saturday night performances at the Harvard Square Loew’s, try The Footlight Club’s live version of The Rocky Horror Show. Leave your water pistols and rice at home, the producers want to keep the historical Eliot Hall in good condition. Call (617) 524-3200 for more info. Tickets $21. 8 p.m. Running Oct. 29 through Nov. 13. Eliot Hall, 7A Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain. (KMM)

SCULPTURE | Bronze Sculpture

Mather’s Three Columns Gallery is featuring new work by Brady Bonus, Murray Dewart, Peter Haines, Larry Pollins, Robert Schelling and Joseph Wheelwright. A range of contemporary bronze castings will be on display. Exhibit opens Nov. 1, and there will be a reception on Nov. 3. Mather House, 10 Cowperthwaite St. (JJH)

THEATER | Balm in Gilead

Joe and Darlene are a young and idealistic pair who find themselves in the proverbial den of thieves—an assortion of thieves, shady characters, and miscreants assembled in an all-night New York City coffee shop. Follow their story as the couple faces temptation and danger in their urban predicament. Presented by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, world-renowned Visiting Director Scott Zigler guides the production. Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $8 (groups of 10 or more $7 apiece). Through Oct. 30. Loeb Main Stage, 64 Brattle Street. (MAB)

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