Your 5 best bets for arts and culture in the week ahead

'Reservoir Dolls'

Turnabout's far from fair play as Quentin Tarantino's 1992 indie breakthrough gets an estrogen-fueled stage makeover, with female thieves plotting a perfect diamond heist that turns into a bloody ambush, thanks (make that no thanks) to a snitch in their ranks. The action starts Thursday at the Onyx Theatre with performances at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Jan. 31 and 5 p.m. matinees Jan. 24 and 31. For tickets ($20), call 702-732-7225 or visit www.onyxtheatre.com.

Cabrera conducts

The poster reads "Cabrera Conducts Rachmaninoff," but Donato Cabrera, the Las Vegas Philharmonic's music director, will conduct a lot more than Rachmaninoff at this weekend's Smith Center concerts, which open with Mason Bates' "Devil's Radio." And Croatian pianist Martina Filjak serves as guest soloist for Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, before Cabrera leads the orchestra in Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E minor. The concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday in Reynolds Hall, with Cabrera hosting a "Classical Conversation" an hour before each concert. For tickets ($26-$96), call 702-749-2000 or visit www.lvphil.org.

Say 'Arrr'

Avast, me hearties! We may be in the middle of the Mojave, but the Springs Preserve floats a bit closer to the high seas Saturday as the folks from Pirate Fest invade in full buccaneer regalia. Guests are encouraged to don their own pirate garb, join in pirate-inspired arts and crafts — and, of course, check out the preserve's touring exhibit "Shipwreck! Pirates & Treasure" — from noon to 4 p.m. The fun's free for members or included with general admission ($4.95-$9.95 for locals, $10.95-$18.95 for nonresidents; kids 4 and younger free); call 702-822-7700 or click on www.springspreserve.org for more details.

Join the 'Tribes'

The human need to be heard inspires Nina Raine's award-winning play "Tribes," which focuses on a deaf man — living among his idiosyncratic, intellectual (and hearing) family — who meets a young woman on the brink of deafness. "Tribes" opens a three-weekend run Friday in the Las Vegas Little Theatre's Fischer Black Box. Performances continue at 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays through Jan. 24. For tickets ($14-$15), call 702-362-7996 or go online to www.lvlt.org.

Blowing winds

The Las Vegas Wind Quintet presents a free classical concert at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Charleston Heights Arts Center. Clarinetist Dave Hawley, a member of both the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Nevada Symphonic Wind Ensemble (not to mention a former member of the Lawrence Welk Orchestra) leads the ensemble, which also includes Philharmonic horn player Doug Beasley, flutist Julie Ivy (who teaches at UNLV) and two Henderson Symphony Orchestra members, oboist Molly Murphy and bassoonist Dorothy Rumsey. For more information, call 702-229-6383 or visit www.artslasvegas.org.