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MUSIC: High Places, Ecstatic Sunshine (pictured), Cex and Evangelista raid and rock the Harket Motel tonight. The DIY venue is sure to be hot following such a sunny day, so leave the jacket at home and get ready to dance...or stand disaffectedly.

Friday // 9:30 p.m. // Harket Motel [1142 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn] // $8

FAIR: Spring has sprung and Earth Day is just around the corner. To celebrate, "the 6th annual EarthFair will feature a stage with live music both days, as well as more than 60 non-profit and earth-friendly exhibitors. Come by for food samples, hands-on activities, face painting, and lots of learning! Kids will enjoy recycled materials art projects, a climbing wall on the side of the vegetable oil powered bus, mini yoga lessons and much more!"

Friday and Saturday // Noon to 7 p.m., 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. // Grand Central Terminal // Free

MUSIC: Another earthy event is going down this Saturday. The NYU kids have created the University's "first sustainable music festival." Off the Grid festival brings bands like Mission of Burma, Revision, Tree Union and The Amygdaloids together for the event, which will be "greened with bio-diesel generators, wind credits, solar panels, a waste management program, and more."

Saturday // 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. // Details here

THEATER: In 1974, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, a play by dissident South African writer Athol Fugard, opened on Broadway and won two Tony awards; in '76 the South African government arrested the performers for treason and sentenced them to solitary confinement. Now the original actors are reprising their roles at BAM one last time, and it’s been getting rave reviews; the Voice’s Alexis Soloski says it remains “remains superbly, indelibly alive.” Part satire, part tragedy, the two-character play is “a timeless parable of the dehumanizing paradoxes of power. Ordered to leave a district because he lacks the proper permit, Sizwe trades his name for a number and begins life as a dead man, wreaking havoc with his identity and sense of right and wrong.” Ends tonight. – John Del Signore

Saturday // 7:30 p.m. // BAM Harvey Theater [651 Fulton Street] // Ticket prices vary.

EVENT: Nothing says Earth Day like food, wine, music and art; Liberator Magazine's 2nd Live From Planet Earth event takes place this Saturday, and they need your creativity to succeed. The organization will encourage the community "to form collective visions. In this space genuine fun is encouraged, pretentiousness is played out and creative expression is used as a tool to help preserve humanity."

Saturday // 7 p.m. // Stratosphere Studio [227 Utica Ave, Brooklyn] // Free

THEATER: Jenny Schwartz’s play God’s Ear looks at a young couple’s relationship in the wake of their son’s near-drowning through a hallucinatory kaleidoscope of arresting dialogue and absurd characterization. The Times’s Charles Isherwood says the “superbly realized production… is composed of virtuosic monologues and dialogues that reveal Ms. Schwartz’s gift for constructing quirky lyrical riffs that stop making sense and then start up again from one line to the next.” – John Del Signore

Sunday // 3 p.m. // The Vineyard Theater, [108 E 15th St] // Tickets cost $55

SHOW: John Lithgow is a force to be reckoned with, he's shined on stage, the small and big screens...and we're guessing he even shines while performing everyday tasks, like pouring a bowl of cereal. He's got a one-man-show now, titled Stories By Heart, which includes a look back at his family roots and a 40-minute monologue that is apparently transcendent.

Sunday // Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center [150 W 65th St] // $35

The listed events were chosen by Gothamist and brought to you by the 2009 Toyota Corolla.