Friday
March 3
Freak show
Catch a new play at the People’s Playground! Tonight is the opening of “Freaks Don’t Cry,” a bizarre musical mash-up of “The Little Mermaid” and 1970s Coney Island. The show’s villain is real estate mogul Fred Trump, who wants to tear down the sideshow, opposed by a bearded lady, a knife-throwing magician, and an ingenue who stumbles in from the sea.
8 pm at Coney Island USA (1208 Surf Ave. at W. 12th Street in Coney Island, www.coney
Saturday
March 4
Do the voo
At last week’s Beer Week Opening Bash, our favorite new brew was the Voodoo Juice chili chocolate malt stout from Lineup Brewing. Sample the smooth stout for yourself — and three other new beer varieties — at the brewery’s tap room launch party this afternoon. Sip a free pint, look out the enormous windows towards Manhattan, and say hi to Katarina Martinez (pictured), the head brewer.
3 pm at Lineup Brewing (33 35th St., sixth floor, between Second and Third avenues in Sunset Park, www.lineu
Sunday
March 5
Patch
Recently opened Williamsburg bookstore Quimby’s wraps up its two-day “Zine, Pin, and Patch Pop-Up Fair” today, where you can snag some wearable art from Brooklyn cartoonist Sara Varon (pictured), feminist ‘zines from Brusque Babe, and elevate your mind with poetry from the group Haiku & Holga, among several others.
Noon–7 pm at Quimby’s Bookstore NYC [536 Metropolitan Ave. between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, (718) 384-1215, www.quimb
Wednesday
March 8
Let’s do Lunch
No need to pay Broadway prices, when you can see the latest work from Tony-winning writer Greg Kotis at Off-Off-Broadway theater the Brick, now hosting “Lunchtime,” an absurdist comedy about an office love triangle spoiled by some punk who vandalizes the local salad bar. We just hope that vandalism does not involve a cross-over with Kotis’s big hit show “Urinetown.”
8 pm at at the Brick [579 Metropolitan Ave. between Union Ave. and Lorimer St. in Williamsburg, www.theat
Thursday
March 9
Girls on film
Celebrate the women of the silver screen at the video variety show “Time after Time,” where host Kseniya Yarosh (pictured) will guide the audience through Hollywood history from the 1930s to 2015. The show includes an analysis of Brooklyn native Barbra Stanwyck, a dance interpretation of the “hysterical woman” trope of the 1960s, and a burlesque tribute to “Mad Max: Fury Road.”
8 pm at the Bell House [149 Seventh St. between Second and Third avenues in Gowanus, (718) 643–6510, www.thebe
