MUSIC: Come enjoy the Whitney after dark tonight as the museum's live showcase series invites Dan Deacon (pictured) to the stage. If you haven't seen Deacon before, get ready for some Casio keyboard electro-rock compositions and an art dance party.

Friday // 7pm // Whitney Museum [945 Madison Ave] // Pay what you want

EVENT: The Moth Story Shop presents “The One that Got Away: Stories from South Street Seaport” tonight. The following storytellers will be on hand to tell tall tales of the area:

Roger Franklin (a seasoned actor, who has revisited one of his favorite roles as Father Christmas at the South Street Seaport for 19 years), Barbara Mensch (photographed the Seaport and Fulton Fish Market in the early ‘80’s), Naima Rauam (whose painting studio used to be in a fish wholesaler’s storefront), Alan Solomon (amateur historian) and Alan Vega (singer/poet of the legendary electro-punk band Suicide, he also lived on Fulton Street in the '80s).

Friday // 7:30pm // 210 Front St // RSVP to rsvp@themoth.org

THEATER: According to Martin Denton, Cherubina is a “brilliantly incisive satire” set in early 20th century Russia that skewers celebrity culture with a true story about a schoolteacher who devises a clever scheme to land her poetry in a St. Petersburg literary journal. After numerous rejections, she takes advantage of Russian Francophilia by submitting the same work under the guise of a concocted half-French character named Cherubina de Gabriak. Complications and betrayals evocative of the J.T. Leroy scandal ensue, ultimately resulting in a Russian duel that’s delayed while one of the rivals searches for his missing shoe. Denton, who probably sees seven plays a week, calls Cherubina “one of the most entertaining and well-crafted new plays I've seen this season.” But he cautions you to avoid spoiling the ending by googling Cherubina before seeing it. – John Del Signore

Friday // 8pm // Sanford Meisner Theater [164 11th Ave] // Tickets cost $18

EVENT: Paula Abdul's Straight Up Vampires is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: vampire stories set to the music of Paula Abdul as performed by other musicians (Jason Trachtenburg, Corn Mo and more). The synopsis tells us "It's 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia. Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright's son. Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves. Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony. MC Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vy for power in the Assembly." This could be the best 10 bucks you've ever spent.

Friday // 8pm // Bowery Poetry Club [308 Bowery] // $10

MUSIC: Jukebox The Ghost, Hymns and A Brief Smile pile into Union Hall Saturday night for an evening of music that'll make you smile. Come early, stay late, rock on.

Saturday // 8pm // Union Hall [702 Union St, Park Slope] // $10

THEATER: We’re glad to see formerly troubled starlet Natasha Lyonne turning the beat around with her performance in Two Thousand Years; today the Times calls her New York stage debut “smart and tart.” The production reunites playwright/filmmaker Mike Leigh with New Group artistic director Scott Elliott; the same chemistry made a 2005 revival of Abigail’s Party a big success. The play, which was a hit in London, concerns a secular Jewish family and their domestic trauma when their son becomes “seriously devout.” Charles Isherwood notes that while the current Leigh/Elliott collaboration “may not be the finest of their forays into social portraiture with a sly, satiric edge,” the show “rises to a pleasing comic pitch in the fractious last act.” – John Del Signore

Saturday // 8pm // The Acorn @ Theatre Row [410 W 42nd St] // Tickets cost $55

PARADE: This Sunday try to catch the 9th Annual Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade & Festival. The two hour jaunt through Chinatown will feature floats, marching bands, magicians, acrobats, dancing, music and all that other fun parade stuff. Over 5,000 people are expected to march in the parade, which will be followed by a few hours of festival fun.

Sunday // 1 to 5pm // Canal St South // Free