ART

WOMEN OF MANY HATS Marlborough Chelsea presents a wide-ranging exhibit of works by Spanish artist Manolo Valdés, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and lithography. Mr. Valdés has had shows at the Guggenheim Bilbao and other museums in Europe, but the self-titled show marks his first in New York in six years. The artist’s singular painting technique includes hand-sewing burlap canvases and applying thick coats of oil paint to them. Among the selections in the exhibit are “Arrielle sobre fondo azul” (2007), right; “Perfil con sombrero carmin” (2007), center right, and “Retrato con medio rostro azul” (2008), far right. Opens tonight, 6–8 p.m., exhibit through Saturday, March 8, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Marlborough Chelsea, 545 W. 25th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-463-8634, free.

DANCE

LIQUID MOVEMENT In her latest performance piece, “Iodine,” Israeli choreographer Deganit Shemy uses the element’s healing and stinging properties as a metaphor for the highs and lows of falling in love. The piece features six dancers who struggle to reconcile their desire for intimacy with their fear of losing their distinct personal identities in the process. Tonight through Saturday, 8 p.m., and Sunday, 6 p.m., Performance Space 122, 150 First Ave. at 9th Street, 212-352-3101, $20.

FAMILY

GROVER GETS HEALTHY Super Grover has not been himself lately. In “Sesame Street Live: Ready for Action,” youngsters can watch as Elmo and an all-superhero team band together to show Grover how to maintain healthy habits, including eating right, staying active, and sleeping plenty. Through song, dance, and well-meaning antics, Grover’s friends get him back on track. The production includes new renditions of familiar tunes such as “Old MacDonald,” “Splish Splash,” and “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”; audience members are invited to sing along. Today, 11 a.m., tomorrow, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., Saturday–Sunday, 10:30 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., through Monday, February 18, dates and times vary, Madison Square Garden, WaMu Theater, 4 Pennsylvania Plaza at 32nd Street, 212-465-6741, $19.50–$54.

MELLOW YELLOW The child-friendly Gustafer Yellowgold Show kicks off the Park Slope Parents Winter Music Series. The show follows Gustafer, an amiable creature who comes to Earth from the sun and befriends a pterodactyl. The pair gets on so well they decide to build a house in a wooded area in Minnesota. A live band accompanies the multimedia production, which also includes animation projected onto a large screen. Gustafer Yellowgold is the brainchild of illustrator and songwriter Morgan Taylor. Sunday, 2 p.m., Southpaw, 125 Fifth Ave., between Sterling and St. John’s Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-230-0236, $10. For complete information, go to spsounds.com.

MUSIC

TIED UP WITH STRINGS The Tokyo String Quartet performs at the 92nd Street Y, where it is in residence this season. The program celebrates two masterpieces of chamber music, Haydn’s String Quartet in C major and Brahms’s String Quartet in A minor, but the concert also makes a case for the future of the genre with the American premiere of “Blossoming,” a piece for string quartet by Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa. The quartet includes violinists Martin Beaver and Kikuei Ikeda, violist Kazuhide Isomura, and cellist Clive Greensmith. A professor at the Yale School of Music, Robert Holzer, gives a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. Saturday, 8 p.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-415-5500, $40 general, $25 for age 35 and under.

STORYTELLING

COMEDIANS AND KVETCHERS A magazine aimed at young Jewish intellectuals with hipster leanings, Heeb, hosts an evening of fast-paced storytelling to make one laugh, cry, and kvell. “Sex, Drugs, and Gefilte Fish” features readings by writer/actress Iris Bahr (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”); a “professionally unemployed” cartoonist and the creator of the “Odd Todd” online series, Todd Rosenberg, and authors Rachel Shukert and Alix Strauss, among others. Actress Kristen Schaal, currently starring in the HBO series “Flight of the Conchords,” hosts the event. Sunday, 7 p.m., Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St. at Astor Place, 212-539-8778, $15.

THEATER

SPELLBINDING In Beatrice Manley’s folk opera, “Conjur Woman,” a woman turns her lover into a tree in an effort to keep him from being sold into slavery. Her spell brings unintended consequences, though, when the tree is chopped down. Obie Award winner Sheila Dabney is cast in the title role, and original music for the production is composed by Ellen Stewart. “Conjur Woman” is presented by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in honor of Black History Month. Tonight through Saturday, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, 3 and 7:30 p.m., La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, 74A E. 4th St. at Second Avenue, 212-475-7710, $25.

REVIVING INGE William Inge’s “Come Back, Little Sheba” returns to Broadway, this time under the direction of Michael Pressman. Veteran television actress S. Epatha Merkerson plays Lola Delaney, who once traded on her looks and has now grown slovenly, trapped in an oppressive marriage to an alcoholic chiropractor, Doc, played by Kevin Anderson. When the couple invites a young boarder, Marie (Zoe Kazan), into their cramped home, her assured sexuality sets off a tense dynamic between the married couple. Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 8 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday, 2 p.m., through Sunday, March 16, Biltmore Theater, 261 W. 47th St., between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, 212-239-6200, $46.50–$91.50.

PHOTOGRAPHY

ROAD TO NOWHERE Barry Stone’s tribute to his native Texas, “Highway 71: Revisited,” spotlights the place where he lived until his late 20s. Mr. Stone’s recent move back to the Lone Star State inspired this latest exhibit, which includes more than 1,500 photographs of the people, fast-food restaurants, and glaringly sunny landscapes he encountered. Selections from the show include “Couple Under Highway 71, Austin, Texas, 11.01.2007” (2007), above. Friday–Sunday, noon–6 p.m., through Sunday, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 438 Union Ave., between Devoe Street and Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718-383-7309, free.

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