THEATER: Gertrude Stein is regarded as an avant-garde intellectual whose adventurous prose has long overshadowed her plays – despite her Broadway hit Four Saints in Three Acts. (Who could forget?) A crack team of downtown experimental theater types are now hoisting six of Stein’s one-acts out of obscurity with a production in the East Village. The evening, irresistibly dubbed Steinese Takeout, boldly embraces Stein’s radicalism and runs with it. How radical are these plays? “How about no plot, no setting, and no pre-defined characters. Cryptic? Definitely. Absurd? Perhaps. Balderdash? Not at all.” – John Del Signore

Friday // 8pm // The Red Room [85 E 4th St] // Tickets cost $15.

EVENT: We've made no secret of our love for the Buffy Musical. Audience interaction and a cult classic? Always a recipe for fun. Check out some video here, then get psyched for some mayhem tonight!

Friday // Midnight // IFC Center [323 6th Ave] // $15

CLEAN!: Barefoot Wine and the Surfrider Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the world's oceans, waves and beaches, invite you to a day at the beach. You're gonna have to chip and help clean up though! There will be entertainment by Jill Cunniff of Luscious Jackson, and some celebs will be helping out as well: Sal Masekela (host of E! Channel's 'The Daily Ten' and ESPN's 'X Games'), Andrew Keegan (WB's 'Related' and '10 Things I Hate About You') and Kristen Schaal (HBO's 'Flight of the Conchords'). Once you've helped rescue the beach, there will be some free wine.

Saturday // 4 to 9pm // Beach Cleanup @ Surfer's Beach [91st St, Rockaway Beach] // Barefoot Celebration @ Pier 92 Restaurant and Bar [377 Beach 92nd St, Rockaway Beach]

RECYCLE!: Tekserve has teamed up with the Lower East Side Ecology Center to offer free electronics recycling this weekend. "The components in many electronics can be incredibly hazardous to the environment - contributing up to 70% of the toxins found in landfills - so it's important that they are properly recycled." Bring computers, servers, mainframes, monitors, printers, fax machines, cell phones...you get the picture. If you bring an old iPod, you'll get 10% off a new one!

Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm // Monday, 4pm to 7pm // Tekserve [119 W 23rd St]

MUSIC: Summer is so much sweeter when there are free shows in Central Park. Saturday brings an afternoon with Television. So get off the couch and stop watching actual television, and rock out with Television. To make the day even more enjoyable, Apples in Stereo and Dragons of Zynth will be joining them on stage.

Saturday // 3pm // Central Park's Rumsey Playfield [69th and 5th Ave entrance] // Free

THEATER: The Mint Theater Company, which has won great acclaim for reviving “worthy but neglected” plays, is now giving British playwright St. John Hankin’s 1905 satire, The Return of the Prodigal, its New York premiere. And Three’s Company's Richard Kline (remember lecherous bachelor Larry Dallas?) resurfaces with it to play a wealthy manufacturer whose deadbeat son is back from a character-building stay in Australia with little character and less money. The Times’ Jason Zinoman calls it a “coolly enthralling play… with a denouement that Neil LaBute would love.” - John Del Signore

Saturday // 2pm & 8pm // Mint Theater [311 W 43rd St, 3rd Floor] // Tickets cost $55.

MUSIC: Todd P has organized an "unamplified acoustic bbq" over on Roosevelt Island Sunday. The afternoon will provide great views and great tunes provided by whoever brings an instrument (expected are: Meneguar, Vampire Weekend, The Ballet and many more). Bonus: "there’s this ruined castle-like 1850’s city smallpox hospital down there too (legendarily haunted)."

Here's a video of Matt & Kim playing last year, with a makeshift drum set created from a cardboard box.

And don't foget to bring a picnic!

Sunday // Noon til the sun goes down // Roosevelt Island [enter Main St and Road 3] // Free