To dine or not to dine, that’s always the question for late February when Annapolis Restaurant Week rolls around.

Now in its 18th year, the Downtown Annapolis Partnership promotion starts Friday and runs through March 1, offering discounts and dining experiences at 35 restaurants in and around Annapolis.

Annapolis is a small city with a lot of restaurants, and lots of diners have favorites they return to again and again.

Whether the promotion is a good deal depends on what you’re looking for in a meal away from home.

The curated menus, made fancier with the French “prix fixe,” are probably best seen as an opportunity to eat at places you don’t usually visit and enjoy a modest discount.

Five new restaurants participating this year include Seasalt Annapolis, Rumhouse, Julep Kitchen & Bar, True Food Kitchen and Firebirds Wood Fired Grill.

Prices range from $13.95 and $19.95 for breakfast, $15.95 and $22.95 for lunch, or $29.95 to $45.95 for dinner.

Seasalt is at the top of that range, with a $45.95 three-course dinner menu that includes “our famous salty bread and butter,” Ōra King salmon — Chinook from New Zealand that is sometimes called the best farmed salmon in the world — and chocolate cake.

Near the other end is breakfast at Main and Market. The two-course meal is $15.95 and includes a pastry with a choice of either a two-egg platter with bacon or sausage plus a pancake and hash browns, or a three-egg slider with either ham, bacon or sausage on a Parker House roll and hash browns.

Most restaurants post their Restaurant Week specials online, but a few ask customers to call for details and as well as reservations.

Here are some other great things to do in the week through Feb. 25.

Broadway in Annapolis

7:30 p.m. Friday

Four guest artists will join The Annapolis Chorale for a vocal celebration of America’s 250th birthday at Maryland Hall.

“Broadway Favorites” features pianist Kevin Cole, performers Arbender Robinson and Raissa Katona Bennett, and mezzo soprano Imara Ashton.

Together with the chorale, they will perform George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” plus selections from “Ragtime,” “Carousel,” and other classics from the Great American Songbook.

The Live Arts Maryland show repeats at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $40-$60, with discounts available for students, seniors and active-duty military.

Designed locally

10 a.m.-5 p.m Saturday

Local by Design’s Artisans Market this month features home decor and soy candles by Art C, sweets by Black Point Chocolatier and floral arrangements by Jennifer Chang of CFlower Co.

The decorating retailer’s event takes place across its gallery, two warehouses in the Greater Annapolis Design District that serve as a base for 30 women-owned small businesses.

This month’s market also includes “Coffee, Croissants and Craft” seminars throughout the day.

Admission is free.

Rescheduled Songbirds

1 p.m. Saturday

The Songbird Collective’s “A Tribute to Aretha” benefit was snowed out last month, moving the Annapolis performers to a Saturday all-ages date for a celebration of Aretha Franklin’s music.

The matinee will benefit the Annapolis Musicians Fund for Musicians and the Songbird Festival, a free community event showcasing women and nonbinary musicians and artists on May 3.

The show will feature Davonne Dneil, Leslie Webber, Heather Britt, Natalia Carrasco Coa, Nan-Ana, Meg Murray, Laura Brino, Angie Miller, Michelle Heaton of Mac Heat and The Stansbury Sisters.

Admission is $30 plus taxes and fees.

New opera reading

3 p.m. Sunday

Annapolis Opera singers will read through a new work by a University of Maryland composer and librettist as part of a new series.

Composed by Christian De Gré Cárdenas with lyrics by Cárdenas and Joseph Reese Anderson, “The Alchemists” kicks off “The 7 Deadly Sins and their Virtuous Companions.”

The work is based on the 19th-century California Gold Rush and the 20th-century Dust Bowl, representing a contrast of diligence and sloth.

The reading at the Unitarian Universalist Church is a stripped-down version of the opera, giving audiences a chance to see how artists explore a new work without sets or costumes.

Annapolis Opera is presenting “The Alchemists” in partnership with the Maryland Opera Studio at the university, which supports the development of new operas and emerging talent. A discussion of the show will follow the reading.

General admission is $32 plus taxes and fees, with discounts for students.

Happy Fire Horse

3-5 p.m. Sunday

The Art Troupe of Renmin University in Beijing will celebrate the Year of the Fire Horse at St. John’s College.

The Lunar New Year performance features 85 students ages 13-17 who perform in orchestra, choir, martial arts, acrobatics and dance groups.

Organized by World Artists Experiences and the Embassy of China, the show in the Francis Scott Key Auditorium is free, but seats are on a first-come, first-seated basis.

Singer-songwriter returns

8 p.m. Tuesday

Singer-songwriter Ray Weaver comes home with a solo concert at Rams Head.

“Let me be clear: This is not a tour,” he wrote in announcing the show. “There are no other U.S. or regional dates around it.”

Weaver grew up in Pasadena but was living in Europe at the time of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He decided to return to the United States and eventually took a job as spokesman for then-Mayor Ellen Moyer.

He recently posted on social media that he wouldn’t be returning to the U.S. from his home in Denmark for a spring tour, but jumped when the opportunity for a single performance emerged.

He’ll be joined by Annapolis performers Madisun Bailey, Meg Murray and Laura Brino. Tickets are $25 plus taxes and fees.