HERE & NOW

THEATER

YOU MIGHT KNOW him from telegenic adventures that had him flying through time ("Quantum Leap") and space (the final Trekkie series, "Enterprise"). But fewer people are aware of Scott Bakula's earthier entertainment life as a Broadway song-and-dance man. He's applying his non-celestial skills on the stage at Ford's Theatre, where he's begun performances of "Shenandoah." The revival of this Civil War musical from 1975, with a score by Gary Geld and Peter Udell, is directed by Jeff Calhoun ("Big River").

-- Peter Marks

At Ford's Theatre, 511 10th St. NW. Through April 30. $25-$52. Call 202-347-4833 or visithttp://www.fordstheatre.org.

ART

MICHAEL FRIED, WHO teaches at Johns Hopkins, has been one of the world's most respected thinkers about art for as long as many people can remember. He made a huge splash in the 1960s with his infinitely close readings of contemporary abstract paintings, then switched in the 1970s to the figurative art of 18th-century France, in the 1980s to Courbet and French realism of the 1850s and '60s, then in the 1990s to the work of Manet and other modern painters of the later 19th century. Now he's moved right up to photography and the present day. In a lunchtime talk he's giving Tuesday, Fried will discuss the photographs of leading contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, the subject of a current Hirshhorn retrospective, in the context of other fine-art photographers such as Jeff Wall and Andreas Gursky.

-- Blake Gopnik

At the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW. Tuesday at noon. Free. Call 202-633-1000 or visithttp://www.hirshhorn.si.edu.