FAMILY

TASTY TREATS The New York Botanical Garden invites children to explore the flavorful side of its orchid show in “Sweet Discoveries: Adventures in Vanilla and Chocolate,” in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden. With lenses and microscopes, children examine live vanilla orchids, their seedpods, and vanilla beans to learn about the flavor’s origins. They also embark on a vanilla jelly bean taste test and an expedition into the “rainforest corner,” before grinding their own ingredients to make an ancient Mayan dessert drink. Through Sunday, April 6, Monday–Friday, 1:30–5:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m., New York Botanical Garden, Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Road, the Bronx, 718-817-8716, $20 general, $18 students and seniors, $7 children, free for members.

ART

FACE TO FACE Albrecht Fuchs first began studying photography in 1995 after becoming an apprentice to German artist Martin Kippenberger, who was known for his experimental and provocative art. Since working with Kippenberger, Mr. Fuchs’s subjects are other artists whom he admires, and a selection of those portraits are on view in his latest self-titled exhibit. Through Saturday, March 22, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Mireille Mosler Ltd., 35 E. 67th St. at Madison Avenue, 212-249-4195, free.

FAMILY

FELINE FIDDLER ON A ROOF The Little Orchestra Society presents “The Cat and the Fiddles,” about the adventures of an orchestral string section. The production is part of the company’s ongoing “Lolli-Pops” series of performances that are meant to introduce children between ages 3 and 5 to classical music. In “The Cat and the Fiddle,” Bang the Lion and Bow the Panda vacation at a resort in the town of “Stringfield,” where they are immersed in the works of classical masters such as Vivaldi, Bach, Strauss, Paganini, and Marcel Grandjany. The society’s music director, Dino Anagnost, leads the orchestra. Saturday, 10:30 a.m. and noon, Sunday, 1 and 2:30 p.m., Hunter College, Kaye Playhouse, East 68th Street, between Park and Lexington avenues, 212-971-9500, $10–$40.

MUSIC

BROKEN VOICE Bronx-born singer-songwriter Ari Hest kicks off the 55UnderGround concert series at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, playing selections from his latest album, “The Break-In.” Mr. Hest’s sound is a blend of soft folk and acoustic pop-rock. The new concert series aims to showcase contemporary music by emerging artists of all genres. Friday, 8 p.m., Baruch College, Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Ave. at 25th Street, 212-325-3101, $25. For complete information, go to 55underground.com.

INFLUENTIAL MOZART The St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble presents “Mozart’s Shadow,” a concert that celebrates the composer’s influence on the generation of Viennese composers that suceeded him. The program includes his Quintet in A major for clarinet and strings, and Beethoven’s “Eyeglass Duo” in E-flat major for viola and cello.

Tomorrow and Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave., between 36th and 37th streets, 212-594-6100, $40 general, $30 members.

TALKS

BELLA FROM THE BRONX The 92nd Street Y presents “Bella Abzug: The Political Legacy of One Tough Broad from the Bronx.” Abzug, an activist and congresswoman, made a career of championing the causes of the powerless and disenfranchised — from Zionism to the environmental and economic equality movements of the 1990s. A panel of speakers discusses her contributions. They include the authors of “Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom, and the Manhattan borough president, Scott Stringer, who campaigned as a youth for his cousin Bella. Thursday, 8:15 p.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-415-5500, $26.

THEATER

KISS THE GIRLS The National Theater of the United States of America presents Molière’s “Don Juan” at the Chocolate Factory. Written in the 1600s while Molière’s previous work, “Tartuffe,” was still banned from the stage, “Don Juan” tells the story of the legendary womanizer as he seduces the local women, luring them from convents and other men. “Don Juan” is the experimental theater company’s first attempt at classical text. Tomorrow through Saturday, 8 p.m., the Chocolate Factory, 5-49 49th Ave., between Vernon Boulevard and 5th Street, Long Island City, Queens, 718-482-7069, $15.

TWO NATIONS AT ODDS The Public Theater, in association with England’s Royal Court Theatre, presents Caryl Churchill’s “Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?” a metaphorical work about the relationship between America and Britain.

Through Sunday, April 6, Tuesday, 7 p.m., Wednesday–Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday, 3 and 7 p.m., Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St., between Astor Place and 4th Street, 212-539-8500, $50.

PHOTOGRAPHY

ICY TRAVELS To photograph the images that would comprise his latest exhibit, Olaf Otto Becker traveled the coasts of Greenland and Iceland in an inflatable boat with only a global positioning system to keep him company. “Broken Line,” the title of his show, refers to Mr. Becker’s use of photography to study the places where land and water meet. Selections from the exhibit include “Nuluk, Giesecke Icefjord, Greenland, 07/2003” (2003), above. Through Friday, March 14, Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Cohen Amador Gallery, 41 E. 57th St. at Madison Avenue, 6th floor, 212-759-6740, free.

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