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READING: The reclusive "Lemony Snicket" (known to grown-ups and non-believers as Daniel Handler) will be showing up - hopefully in a cloak and mustache disguise! - at Barnes and Noble tonight to celebrate the release of The
End, the aptly-titled final chapter to his best-selling Series of Unfortunate Events. Expect the place to be rammed with excited screaming children, and maybe a suspiciously tattooed foe or two. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras
Friday // 4pm // Barnes & Noble [33 E 17th St at Broadway] // Free
THEATER: The extraordinary Eric Davis extends the New York Clown Theatre Festival a little longer with a “bouffon” version of The Glass Menagerie. Each night, one lucky audience member is plucked from obscurity to play the role of Gentleman Caller and share the stage with a bunch of clowns. The show’s disclaimer warns, “Tom, Amanda and Laura claim no responsibility for your hurt feelings or offended sentiments. Tennessee Williams is spinning in his grave. Why would anyone do this to an American Masterpiece?" David Koteles of nytheatre.com dubs it “delicious theatrical sacrilege”. - John Del Signore
Friday // 10:30pm // Brick Theater 575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn // Tickets are $10
MUSIC: We've been loving the Violent Femmes since way before Ethan Hawke sang "Add It Up" in Reality Bites. Tonight they hit Brooklyn with openers Little Kitten Space Girl. Check out a brief history of the band in the clip above, recorded in NYC and originally aired in 2000.
Friday // 8pm // Warsaw [261 Driggs Ave] // $27.50
EVENT: The d.u.m.b.o arts center presents the 10th Annual Art Under the Bridge Festival this weekend. The festival will run all weekend over 30 blocks, with designers, artists, artchitects and other creatives involved, it's definitely worth checking out.
Friday through Sunday // 6pm to 9pm // DUMBO, Various locations // Free
THEATER: Dreaming Andersen is a new multimedia piece by the Archa Theatre from Prague that closes Saturday night. The production fuses theater, hip-hop, classical Chinese music, traditional Czech animation, cutting-edge video technology, puppetry and graffiti to tell classic Hans Christian Andersen tales. It is part of the inaugural European Dream Festival, which also brought us the fascinating Tower of Babel. - John Del Signore
Saturday // 8pm // Tribeca Performing Arts Center [199 Chambers St] // Tickets
READING: Dave Eggers of McSweeney's fame has collaborated with Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng to tell the true story of Deng's life and departure from Sudan, and the authors will be appearing at Housing Works Used Book Cafe this Sunday night to read from the book, and expect a review from us on the day of publication, a week later. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras
Sunday // 6pm // Housing Works Used Book Cafe [126 Crosby St] // Free
