Bertold Brecht’s masterpiece Mother Courage, about a woman who pulls a canteen wagon on the battlefields of the Thirty Years’ War, hits the Academy this week under the direction of Advocate theater critic Chris Rohmann. Mia Wurgaft (pictured, center, with Aaron Collette and Kayla Smith as her children) plays Mother Courage.

March 16-17, $8-17, The Academy of Music, 274 Main Street, Northampton. For reservations: (413) 584.9032 ext. 105 or boxoffice@academyofmusictheatre.com.