Various forms of community theater are in Queens this week. Yarn, Pippin Apples, seagulls, drag queens, and the mathematical term Pi are also around. Please read on.
March 13, Karinne Keithley Syers: Your Ghost Body, March 14. This show is a video game made by Syers and an analog performance in which the audience collectively acts as the player. A memory palace in the form of a playable junkyard, its live medium is luminous radio, working the edge between sound, text, song, and projection. Both shows at 7 pm. $15-$275. The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.
March 14, Don’t Drink The Water, March 22. A community acting group performs Woody Allen’s comedy. Remaining shows are March 14, 15, and 22 at 3 pm and March 21 at 7 pm. $25, $22 for seniors and children under age 16. St. Margaret Parish Hall, 66-11 79th Pl., Middle Village.
March 14, Infinite Sums: Pi day, 3:14 pm. Math in Bloom presents a Pi Day (3.14) celebration with music, film, food, and math-inspired activities for all ages. Explore the beauty of math in nature and its significance in culture through a music performance, a plant-focused pie-cooking experience, a “mathy” (happy) hour, and crafts. The program concludes with a movie screening at 6:15 p.m. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing.
March 14, Yarn Lovers Fest, noon. A five-day celebration of all things yarn. Join crafters, dyers, knitters, crocheters, and weavers from across NYC and shop with local vendors. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing.
March 14, Improv and Art, 6:30 pm. Queens World Film Festival Executive Director Katha Cato presents Reassembled, a fully improvised, one-woman show with themes of reassembly, resilience, and transformation. She’ll perform among her original fabric art and structural sculptures that are on view all month long. The Local LIC, 13-02 44th Ave., Long Island City.
March 14, Overexposed: Art, Technology, and the Body, Jan. 3, 2027. Cinema’s invention in the late 19th century allowed artists and scientists to record motion for the first time ever. At the same time, X-ray technology extended vision beneath the skin, allowing people to view the body’s interior. These tools produced spectacular new images that shaped modern conceptions of the body. This exhibition brings together research-based and educational films with pieces by 16 American and international artists to examine the historical, medical, and sociopolitical implications of seeing inside the body. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria’s Kaufman Arts District.
March 15, Historic Lectures: Newtown Pippin Apples, 1 pm. Ridgewood resident and civic activist Christina Wilkinson, who co-founded the Newtown Historical Society, lectures on the borough’s agricultural history, focusing on the Newtown Pippin Apple, a native fruit that Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Queen Victoria loved.
March 15, Twilight Chamber Music Concert, 4:30 pm. The Con Brio Ensemble — Emilie-Anne Gendron (violin), Hamilton Berry (cello), and Diana Mittler-Battipaglia (piano) – performs Schumann (Fantasy Pieces opus 73 for cello and piano), Ravel (Sonata for violin and cello), and Schumann (Trio 1 in D minor opus 63). The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills.
March 15, Fertile Ground, March 29. Dancers include Audrey Chou, Dan Doran, Georgia Dahill-Fuchel Jasmine Rivers, Macy Alday & Juliann, Craft, and Maïlys Dumas-Lattaque. Both shows at 7 pm. Green Space Studios, 37-24 24th St., Ste. 211, Long Island City.
March 15, Sunday Funday Family Zone, 11 am. Visitors can build devices to pick up space rocks. Snacks and themed coloring activities will also be available. New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th St., Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
March 15, Verse4Verse: Drag + Poetry, 7 pm. Poetry, drag, rap, live music– all for free. The host is Queens-based Poison Oak. The lineup features poetry by Alex Scelso and Danielle Bero, drag by Priestess Lolita, rap by Penny Livonia, and songs by Fiola. Dada, 60-47 Myrtle Ave., Ridgewood.
March 17, The American Revolution Experience Traveling Exhibit, March 24. This pop-up exhibition features display panels and interactive digital kiosks that use storytelling, illustration, technology, unique artifacts, and primary accounts. Bayside Historical Society, 208 Totten Ave., Bayside.
March 17, 40 Shades of Green: New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Gathering, 3 pm. Six hours of live music, dance, and mingling with more than 40 performers. The lineup includes The Celtic Tenors, Donie Carroll, Darrah Carr Dance, and the McManus School of Irish Dance. New York Irish Center, 10-40 Jackson Ave., Long Island City.
March 19, The Seagull, March 21. Emily Ann Banks has created a version of this Anton Chekhov classic that’s 70 percent adaptation and 30 percent original thrill ride. A darkly funny, visceral exploration of art, love and the violence of creation. The Secret Theatre, 10-10 44th Ave., Long Island City.