Fracking isn't magic. What the Frack? is. Friday, magic takes the form of music, dance and thought-provoking performance when Tacoma School of Arts Theater (SOTA) stages What the Frack? - a social commentary about fracking, which is the controversial use of hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas from the earth. The topic is portrayed through dance, choreographed by SOTA's Robin Jaecklein, with original music by local jazz saxophonist and SOTA instructor Kareem Kandi.

Read Nikki McCoy's interview with Kareem Kandi in Northwest Military's Music & Culture section.

WHAT THE FRACK?, 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 3, Tacoma School of the Arts Theatre, 1118 Commerce Ave., Tacoma, $5, 253.571.7900