Events This Weekend
Then She Fell
Theater: Off-Off BroadwayTuesdays-Sundays, 7:30 & 10 p.m. Continues through June 30
Based on the life and work of Lewis Carroll and his disturbing relationship with Alice Liddell, the young girl he loved and for whom he wrote Alice in Wonderland, this is the opposite of passive theatergoing: it's a real adventure through the proverbial looking-glass. Performed in a 100-year-old institutional building that has been dressed to look and feel like an old asylum, crammed with all kinds of creepy Carroll ephemera, it viscerally arrives at is the awful standoff between a little girl and an older man who loved her inappropriately and made something beautiful for her to salve his pain—and also to ensnare her forever. It gets across the full horror of what that meant for her, and also what that means for us. $95-$125
Brooklyn Brewery Tour
Walking Toursuntil 5 PM every hour
Tour the brewery and sample beers. Tour free but pay per sample
Smorgasburg
Special EventsSaturdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Every Saturday on the Williamsburg waterfront between North 6th and North 7th St., at the East River, from 11am to 6pm, Smorgasburg brings together food entrepreneurs and established purveyors from New York City and across the region selling both packaged and prepared foods, fresh produce, and other food-related stands (kitchen utensils, housewares, etc.), for a total of approximately 100 vendors. The market is open rain or shine. FREE
The Shins, Man Man
Music: Rock, Pop and Hip-HopSun., May 26, 5:30 p.m.
Let's just say there are certainly worse ways to spend a Sunday evening in spring than listening to indie-pop masters The Shins on the Brooklyn waterfront. $45
Crystal Stilts, The So So Glos, Heaven's Gate, Dinowalrus, Trabajo
Music: Rock, Pop and Hip-HopSun., May 26, 7 p.m.
Signs of life have popped up on Crystal Stilts' follow-ups to their breakthrough debut, Alight of Night, since culminating in a near perfect five-track package with 2011's Radiant Door EP. While their sound still favors swaddled blacks and grays to a rainbow-hued prism of pop, tonight it'll play foil to The So So Glos' boldly colored punk for a showcase of Brooklyn's best. $12
Comedy Night with Hannibal Buress
Comedy: Stand-UpSundays, 9 p.m.
Weekly comedy night hosted by Hannibal Buress
