Style Forecast: Seating Chart App, LED Tabletops, Catering From Questlove

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts opens in March, and performances by the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater are among the early offerings. Group ticketing is available for 10 or more.

Chef Rick Bayless stars in Cascabel: Dinner—Daring—Desire at the Lookingglass Theatre, March 21 to April 22 (821 North Michigan Ave., 312.337.0665, lookingglasstheatre.org). With circus acts and a three-course dinner, the play depicts a love story set in 1940s Mexico. Tickets are $200 to $225, and group ticketing is available.

The Roots drummer Questlove launched his catering company, Quest Loves Food (303.589.8962), in November. Based in New York and Philadelphia and available for off-premise catering nationwide, Quest has menu options that highlight Creole- and Korean-inspired soul food, including the musician’s signature origami-wrapped fried chicken drumsticks.

D.C.-based seating chart app Social Tables (socialtables.com), which launched in beta in May, is issuing a re-design with new functionalities in early 2012. The tool creates cloud-based seating charts with social media integration so guests can interact with tablemates before and after events. Version 2.0 will include a floor-plan designer and collaboration features that let several planners work on documents simultaneously.

Just in time for corporate picnics, So Cool Events will launch its new Chic Garden Picnic tables, designed for outdoor use without the need for generators or lighting services. The collection includes glowing acrylic pedestals, paired with clear acrylic 72-inch rounds or 4- by 8-foot tops.

Holo-Walls has introduced its interactive LED Liquid Tabletops. Designed to be placed on 30-inch round cocktail tables, the illuminated, chrome-edged tiles are available to rent from $100 each and can be shipped anywhere.

Executive chef Domenic Chiaromonte of T2 Resto-Lounge heads the kitchen at C2 Catering Couture, a new Toronto catering company that creates customized, playful, and artistic dishes, like the Sugar Bubble, filled with a fortune cookie and chocolate mousse, and served with a hammer to crack it open.

Social Media Week (socialmediaweek.org), a bi-annual series of events and conversations on social and mobile media trends, will take place February 13 to 17 in cities including New York, Miami, Toronto, and Washington.

Boston Uplights recently debuted its LED Angle Lights. The wireless, remote-controlled spotlights have magnetic backs that can attach to railings and other unwieldy surfaces.

In February, performance art group Drip will open its new facility (8747 International Drive, 347.855.3747, ilovedrip.com) to entertain audiences by combining dance, music, art, liquids, and powders. The new 5,100-square-foot space can accommodate 300 guests, and group options are available.