Weekend Preview: Snoopy and Subtitles ( 5. February 2010, 13:39 by Steve Dunkelberger) ~ Just don't ask Lucy to hold the football

While Super Bowl XLIV between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday anchors the calendar for most people this weekend, there are certainly non-pigskin events locally that are worth a look.

A fun time, for example, can be found at Charles Wright Academy this weekend as the students stage “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.” The show runs at 6:30 p.m. today and Saturday. The show is a standout for the private school since it is its first dinner theater production and involves almost one in five students at the school. And quite frankly, a show can’t go wrong when it involves a Snoopy. This is a show for the family that is a perfect way to share staged arts with young theatergoers.

Another theater production worth a look can be found downtown, where the Washington State History Museum will host a stage reading of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece that follows a family divided by the fate of their heirloom piano. Tickets are $14. The show runs at 3 p.m. Feb. 6. More information is available at www.broadwaycenter.org.

These shows come at times that don’t conflict with Super Bowl watching, so get some culture before you become a couch potato on Sunday.