(Kate Wollman Ice Skating Rink, Prospect Park, Parkside & Ocean Ave Entrance, Brooklyn, NY 11226) 26,600 square feet of sheer fun also serves as home turf for the Brooklyn Blades amateur men's and women's ice hockey teams. (Kate Wollman Ice Skating Rink) Event Website

(Sean Kelly Gallery, 528 West 29th St, New York, NY 10001) Nearly 50 of Mapplethorpe's photographs depicting fellow artists in the downtown NYC scene of the '70s and '80s including Laurie Anderson, Louise Bourgeois, William Burroughs, Francesco Clemente, David Hockney, Annie Leibovitz, Norman Mailer, Ileana Sonnabend and Andy Warhol. Event Website

(NY Public Library, 5th Ave at 42nd St, New York, NY 10018) Diaries, manuscripts, snapshots, and personal items of Jack Kerouac, the visionary author whose pioneering work helped to established the Beat Movement in the U.S. The exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of Kerouac's landmark novel, On the Road. Event Website

(American Airlines Theater, 227 West 42nd St, New York, NY 10036) Adapted from Hitchcock's 1935 classic move thriller, this brand new version is performed by four actors playing a minimum of 150 roles and contains every single legendary scene from the award-winning movie. Event Website

(BAM Harvey Theater, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217) Patrick Stewart boldly reasserts his reputation as one of the great Shakespearean actors of our time in a commanding performance as Macbeth. Event Website

(Jonathan LeVine Gallery, 529 West 20th, 9th Fl, New York, NY 10011) (7 - 9pm) Tara McPherson's "Lost Constellations" features a series of oil paintings and resin-cast sculptures that depict adventurous super-heroines from an alternate universe. Lori Earley's "Fade to Gray" blends photorealist painting with Mannerist elements of surreal distortion in her portraits of hauntingly captivating female figures that bring historical context into a contemporary light. Showing through March 22nd. Event Website

(Here, 145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013) Lost in a labyrinth of repeating memories and trapped in a failing marriage, Rus connects with Sonny, a gay hustler, and descends into a world of sex, drugs and violence. Event Website

(Ace of Clubs, 9 Great Jones St, New York, NY 10012) (8pm) A behind-the-scenes look at the worlds of fashion and entertainment by Hollywood hairstylist Rick Gradone. The production features a nightly drawing in which one audience member WINS A FREE POST-SHOW HAIRCUT, transforming the evening into an impromptu salon in which Gradone�s artistry is put to the test... over cocktails. ($18) Event Website

(American Folk Art Museum, 45 West 53rd St, New York, NY 10019) This exhibit traces the journey of Jewish woodcarvers and other artisans from Eastern and Central Europe to America and the unsung role they played in establishing a distinct Jewish culture in communities throughout the U.S. Event Website

(BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance, 841 Barretto St, Bronx, NY 10474) Annual cultural festival celebrating the empowerment of women. Crowned �a funky and welcoming performance space� by The New York Times , BAAD! is a 70 seat workshop and performance space that presents cutting-edge and challenging works by established, evolving and emerging choreographers, playwrights, poets, musicians and artists that are empowering to women, people of color and the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) communities. ($5 - $20) Event Website

(TBG Theatre, 312 West 36th St, New York, NY 10018) Youngest child Deirdre is rather shy and withdrawn, with none of the drive that rules elder brother Liam or her lover Victoria. When some of the Deirdre's computer programs become worth millions, she balks at selling out to big software corporations, wanting just enough money to live happily with her significant other. As for Victoria, when she's not managing the company's finances, she enjoys writing lesbian science fiction and listening to the Ramones. Despite their differences, each character in shapeshifter has at their core a similar problem, an inability to grow. ($15/$18) Event Website

(Central Park, Near 110th St & Lenox Ave) For a more intimate New York City ice skating experience, visit Lasker Skating Rink. The comfortable setting appeals to inexperienced skaters, as well as recreational skaters practicing before a pick-up game of hockey. Event Website

(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) Escape winter's chill as you stroll through the country's premier orchid exhibition that showcases the exquisite shapes, breathtaking colors and alluring fragrances of one of the world's most exotic flowers. Event Website

(Urban Stages, 259 West 30th St, New York, NY 10001) A new musical about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. The celebrated couple confronts each other about love, marriage, jealousy, genius and a few other delicious topics while Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mabel Dodge, Sylvia Beach and even Jean Harlow drop by for a visit. Event Website

(Studio 54, 254 West 54th St, New York, NY 10019) This musical celebrates the art of creation and the creation of art. Music and Lyrics composed by Stephen Sondheim. Event Website

(La Tourette Park & Golf Course, 441 Clarke Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306) (7:30 - 11pm) Enjoy a delightful evening of unplugged music in an intimate 19th-century tavern at Historic Richmond Town in the heart of Staten Island. Musical styles include bluegrass, traditional, old-time, sea chanteys, singer-songwriter, jug band, Irish, and more. Warm yourself by the wood-burning stove and enjoy. Event Website

(37 ARTS THEATER, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018) (Tues 7pm; Wed-Fri 8pm; Sat 5 & 9pm; Sun 3 & 7pm) Adapted from groundbreaking lesbian pulp novels, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles is set against the backdrop of 1950s Greenwich Village -- the era when lesbian love dared not speak its name. Meet legendary author Ann Bannon at two post-show talks: March 2: Moderated by Kurt Brokaw. March 4: Moderated by journalist Barbara Raab. (212-560-8912) Event Website

(Zipper Factory, 336 West 37th St, New York, NY 10018) (7pm) Award winning actresses Kathleen Chalfant (Wit, Angels in America) and Patricia Elliott (�One Life to Live,� A Little Night Music, The Shadow Box) star in Vita and Virginia, a play by Eileen Atkins adapted from the correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. The play, about two extraordinary 20th Century women exploring their passions - literary and otherwise - takes place in the 1920s and 1930s and through the first years of WWII. It deals, in a very timely way, with women seeking their place in the world as they face personal and professional conflicts. ($35) Event Website

(Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow Street, New York, NY 10014) (7:30 pm) Two Men Talking is the live performance of a friendship. Paul Browde and Murray Nossel are a psychiatrist and an Academy Award nominated filmmaker, who have known one another since they were twelve years old. Over a period of ten years this unscripted piece continues to develop through its live performance, shaped by the listening of each audience.It has now been performed in South Africa, London's West End, Edinburgh, Canada and Australia. ($25 (discounts available)) (212 239-6200) Event Website

(The Museum at FIT, 295 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001) Over 40 modern designers featured along with beautiful 18th and 19th-century fashions and textiles that highlight Japanese, Chinese, Indian and North African styles. Event Website

(NY City Center, 131 West 55th St, New York, NY 10019) A poignant new play about friendship and memory, the gap between our stories and our lives, and what happens when your dreams come true - for your best friend. Event Website

(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) Celebrate the 10th annual return of this re-created tropical forest environment filled with over 500 live butterflies. Event Website

(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally acclaimed as an artist whose creative transgressions and cultural provocations have literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time. This is especially true of Inopportune: Stage One, Cai�s largest installation to date, which presents nine real cars in a cinematic progression that simulates a car bombing, occupying the central atrium of the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda. Event Website

(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) This will be the 74th in the series of Whitney Annual and Biennial exhibitions inaugurated in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Event Website

(Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th St, New York, NY 10023) During World War II in the South Pacific, love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. The war is tearing them apart. Event Website

(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) How the Egyptians, known throughout the ancient world for their expertise in magic, addressed the unknown forces of the universe is explored in this exhibition of twenty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's world-famous collection. Event Website