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THEATER: Self-proclaimed “super-ultra-nerd” Brooke O’Harra has spawned Panic at P.S. 122. Written by Rafael Spregelburd, her production invokes the mood of low-budget horror movies to tell the tale of a mother and her two children as they attempt to recover the key to their safety deposit box - from the hands of the dead! Panic is part of the Buenos Aires in Translation (BAiT) festival, featuring the U.S. premieres of four playwrights from Argentina’s capital, which has become the theatrical “epicenter of Latin America”. The three other plays are also running through Sunday. - John Del Signore
Friday // 8:30pm // P.S. 122 [150 1st Ave] // Tickets are $20
ART: Artist David McQueen opens up his new show tonight with a little reception. The show, called "Cloudbursts", will combine sculpture and drawings from the artist. McQueen took photos of car bomb explosions and drew "cloudbursts" over the explosion part. The "sculptures use this as a taking off point and incorporate kinetic elements, with automated parts scraping and picking them apart."
Friday // 7 to 11pm // Cinders Gallery [103 Havemyer St] // Free
BOOK FAIR: This weekend the Art Book Fair is in town. It's the first annual fair of "contemporary art books, art catalogues, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines offered for sale by over 70 international publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers". So if you've got some shelves to stock and some coffee tables to class up, head on over there! There are also some events coinciding with the event that you can get a list of here.
All Weekend // Friday and Saturday 11am to 7pm, Sunday 11am to 5pm // 548 West 22nd St between 10th and 11th Aves // Free
THEATER: In honor of his 70th birthday, the absurdist Untitled Theater Company #61 has teamed up with other artists from New York and around the country to present the complete plays of Czech dissident, president and comic genius Václav Havel. The ongoing Havel Festival boasts a world premiere, five English language premieres and five other new translations. (Havel himself attended a performance of his OBIE-award winning play The Memo.) Sixteen plays in all are being produced - mostly at the Ohio Theater in Manhattan and the Brick Theater in Williamsburg - through December 4th. (For details, see the full schedule and a thorough timeline of Havel’s life.) One of this weekend’s many highlights is Havel’s first full-length play The Garden Party (on a double bill with puppet-play Mistake), which Jo Ann Rosen calls a “lively circus of colorful automatons paralyzed into inaction.” - John Del Signore
All Weekend // Various Times // Ohio Theater [66 Wooster St] and The Brick Theater [575 Metropolitan Ave]
MUSIC: Ok Go, famous for their treadmill video, share the Irving stage tonight with French Kicks and Quit Your Day Job. Can they impress without the treadmill? Go find out.
Saturday // Irving Plaza [17 Irving Place] // $20
And we really, really, really hope one of you plans on going to see Styx in Red Hook on Sunday. Please send photos, video and locks of Tommy Shaw's hair.
