THEATER—With Thanksgiving out of the way, theaters everywhere march out a scourge of Christmas Carols—some fine, some uncanny-valley-creepy (see: the Muppets’ version, starring that puppet without eyes)—but Second City’s Twist Your Dickens is the funniest, with no reverence for Dickens’ morality play, which sounds like a helluva lot more fun than watching any other version. MEGAN BURBANK
Portland Center Stage, 128 NW 11th, Tues-Fri 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 & 7:30 pm, plus Thurs noon, through Dec 24, $25-69
FILM—This weekend, the NW Film Center presents a little bit of noir in their aptly named A Little Noir series, showcasing five lesser-known noir flicks. Today you can see two of them, either separately or as a double feature: 1947’s Dark Passage (starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall) and 1950’s Thieves’ Highway, which, promisingly, features a “produce dealer with a heart of stone.” ERIK HENRIKSEN
Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park, Dark Passage at 4:45 pm, Thieves’ Highway at 7 pm, $8-9