THEATER: Obie Award winner Adam Rapp has just unwrapped (sorry) his new play Essential Self-Defense at Playwrights Horizons. Set in a mean Midwestern town called Bloggs, the play has, fittingly, been generating big blog buzz. The “grim fairy tale” revolves around a disgruntled misfit “who takes a job as an attack dummy in a women’s self-defense class and finds himself mysteriously drawn to the repressed bookworm who’s beating on him. But all’s not well in Bloggs: with local children vanishing at an alarming rate, our hero, his lady friend, and a motley assortment of poets, butchers, and punk librarians prepare to battle the darkness on the edge of town.” With rock n’ roll karaoke! - John Del Signore

Friday // 7:30pm // Playwrights Horizons [416 W 42nd St] // Regular tickets cost $50, but $40 tickets are available for all performances if purchased here by March 28th. Use code EDT2)

COMEDY: Star Trekken just sounds like an awesome event, and making fun of Trekkies never gets old - so head over to this comedy show tonight which is packed with improvised episodes based on real Star Trek's. As they say, "Live Long and…Laugh”.

Friday // 8pm // The Tank [279 Church St] // $5

MUSIC: The Hungry March Band are sending one of their own off to Japan, and you should help them: ”Our very own darling Geophysicist is going to Japan to measure the earth’s rockn rolln for three months. Come and give him a proper send-off so he is sure to come back. Put the HMB Brooklyn rock in your sushi roll." Get there early, Zebulon can get pretty packed.

Friday // Zebulon [258 Wythe, Williamsburg] // Free

EVENT: Santacon brings a red wash over the city, so prepare to see green this weekend as LepreCon '07 comes to town. Where green and get ready to mess with the tourists and drink some green beer in preparation for St. Patty's Day.

Saturday // 10am // Meet at Central Park, 59th Street - Across from the Plaza Hotel // Free

THEATER: The final episodes of The Sopranos are just weeks away, but those who need a taste now can get a theatrical dose of Michael Imperioli, who plays Christopher in the series (and, among other things, Spider in Goodfellas). He’s in a new play by Mike Batistick called Chicken, which is about a working-class Bronx man who’s got a pregnant wife and a deadbeat buddy crashing on his couch. “Devilish comedy” ensues when he decides to bring in some extra cash by training a rooster for an illegal cock fight in Washington Heights. (Ginia Bellafante at the Times says it's tutto bene.) - John Del Signore

Saturday // 8pm // Studio Dante [257 W 29th St] // Tickets cost $35

WALKING TOUR: UnCoolKids point us to the Bohemian Broads of Greenwich Village Pub-Crawl Tour: ”A Special Women’s History Month Pub Crawl History Tour! A special historic cocktail-crawl through the West Village, talking about the wild, brassy, fast-talkin’, wise, wordy, and quick-witted women of the late 19th and early 20th century including: Mae West- Prisoner of the Jefferson Market Courthouse, Emma Lazurus- Poet of The New Colossus and resident of W10th st., Gertrude Drick and Edna St. Vincent Millay- Freedom, surrealism and a New Years party in Washington Square, Joan Baez and Judy Collins- Revolution in the air with the folk songstresses of Bleecker st.”

Sunday // 4pm // Starts at Washington Square Arch // RSVP to Gidlevy (a) gmail dot com