Joy of cooking: Are you a great cook and a fierce competitor? Can you handle having your culinary creations judged down to the smallest leaf of parsley? The immersive stage show MasterChef Live brings past MasterChef and MasterChef Junior contestants together to take on live cooking challenges and demonstrations—and its family-friendly, interactive format means the audience is in on the fun.
Thursday 10/14. $24.75-44.75, 7pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall, theparamount.net.