THEATER: It’s Friday night, and what better way to cut loose than an evening of interactive theater – set in plague-ravaged New York City! In All Fall Down, a savage battle rages for the dwindling supplies of the vaccine, but soon a question arises: "Is the cure worse than the disease?" Theatre Recrudescence vows to explore our “post 9/11 hysteria with elements of carnival, clowning and rock and roll.” (All Fall Down is in previews, so there are no reviews; we'll have to take them on their word that the show “includes the audience, but doesn't embarrass them.”) - John Del Signore

Friday // 8pm // CSV Cultural Center [107 Suffolk Street] // Tickets cost $10

ART: Prisoners from around the country have filled blank canvases and empty space using materials like coffee grounds and candy to create art. Their "Insider Art" exhibit is full of sculptures, portraits and landscape and abstract paintings, all a reflection on isolation and prison life. This is the 7th Annual Prisoner Art Show. You can even bid on the art online!

Tonight through December 22nd // 1:30pm to 10:30pm // The Film Society of Lincoln Center [165 W 65th Street, Plaza Level] // Free

MUSIC: We're not huge fans of The Stills, but tonight they're playing Bowery with two great openers - so it might just be time to give them a second chance. They play with Au Revoir Simone and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. The former was our Band of the Week this week, the latter is a group of youngins who are channeling the sound of Wilco.

Listen: House Fire.mp3 - Someone Still Loves Your Boris Yeltsin

Friday // 9pm // Bowery Ballroom [6 Delancey St] // $18

THEATER: Blink and you’ll miss Screen Test, a new “sci-fi punk rock" creation by artist Rob Roth (Click + Drag) and musician Theo Kogan (Lunachicks). The multimedia extravaganza imagines the shooting of an epic 1950s movie entitled “Before the World Was Made”. Screen Test uses Roth's ‘body projection’ technique — a visual illusion that, by projecting video directly on to live performers, tricks the eye into confusing what is real and what is pre-recorded. “All the along the question hovers — is this real or the fevered hallucination of a madwoman?” The original score will be belted out by rock titans Theo and the Skyscrapers (myspace). (Ends Sunday.) - John Del Signore

Saturday // 8pm & 10:30pm // P.S. 122 [150 First Ave.] // Tickets cost $20

BOOK FAIR: The Small Press Center is sponsoring the 19th Annual Independent & Small Press Book Fair this weekend. The fair brings together over 100 indie presses to exhibit and sell books (Seven Stories, Softskull, Melville House, Serpent's Tail, etc), as well as a bunch of free public events. Including discussions like "The rise of the progressive blogosphere and the future of American politics" and "Chick Lit: More than just Bridget and Blahniks". Full schedule here.

Saturday and Sunday // 10am to 6pm // 20 W 44th St @ 5th Ave // Free (donations encouraged)

MUSIC: +/- and The Changes take the Knit main space stage this weekend. The Changes have released one of our favorite albums of the year, and since we missed them during CMJ - we're pretty psyched for this show. There are no mp3's up on their site, but you can listen to it stream. And for that matter, you can check out +/-'s new album, which is streaming here.

Saturday // 11pm // The Knitting Factory [74 Leonard St] // $10

THEATER: The Whore from Ohio, by acclaimed Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin, is described as a “lively burlesque; a sort of biblical tale adapted by John Waters for the Three Stooges.” This sardonic fable tells of an impotent old tramp who has dreamed all his life about an unattainable high-class American prostitute. As his 70th birthday approaches, he decides to squander his meager savings on a visit to a street whore. His son, also a tramp, imagines his father as a secretly wealthy man and dreams of the vast inheritance that will one day be his. (It’s believed that the prostitute is from Ohio.) - John Del Signore

Sunday // 2:30pm & 8pm // La MaMa [74A E. 4th St.] // Tickets cost $15