FAMILY

KISS SOME TOADS, FIND A PRINCE The Little Orchestra Society presents “Cinderella — And the Prince Who Slays the Magic Dragon,” a production of the classic tale that combines music, dance, and puppetry. Youngsters follow a cast that includes a 15-foot fairy godmother, a fiery dragon, a dozen dancers and masked performers, and larger-than-life puppets as the titular stepdaughter loses her glass slipper — and finds her prince. The show was created by theater designer Manju Shandler, whose credits include work on Broadway’s “The Lion King.” The choreography is by a former dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, Lisa Rinehart, and the music is excerpted from Sergei Prokofiev’s original score. Saturday, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, 1941 Broadway at 65th Street, 212-875-5030, $10–$40.

MUSIC

HIDDEN CHAMBERS It’s a little-known fact that some of Igor Stravinsky’s greatest works were chamber compositions. Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, led by executive director George Steel, has assembled a five-concert series to celebrate the influential Russian composer’s chamber works. In the first installment, the International Contemporary Ensemble plays more than a dozen unsung gems, including “Dumbarton Oaks” (1937), “Ragtime” (1917), “Double Canon” (1959), and “Fanfare for a New Theatre” (1964). Jayce Ogren conducts. Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., Morgan Library, Gilder Lehrman Hall, 225 Madison Ave. at 36th Street, 212-854-7799, $45.

PHOTOGRAPHY

PHOTO FINISH The Association of International Photography Art Dealers presents the AIPAD Photography Show in New York. More than 75 of the world’s leading national and international fine art galleries exhibit works from the 19th century to the present. The highlights of this year’s show include the Laurence Miller Gallery’s focus on Helen Levitt and the Pace/MacGill Gallery’s spotlight on John Szarkowski. Thursday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m., Friday–Saturday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave. at 67th Street, 202-367-1158, $25 daily, $35 for four-day pass.

READINGS

THE MAP OF LOVE The New York Public Library hosts a tribute to Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. The poet’s daughter, Aeronwy Thomas, reads from his works, as well as from her own. A poet and editor of the poetry magazine the Seventh Quarry, Peter Thabit Jones, accompanies Ms. Thomas in the reading and gives a talk on the Welsh landscape that figured so prominently in Thomas’s works. The poet, who died at 39 in 1953, had struggled with alcoholism and nagging anxiety, but his Romantic approach to poetry captured the American imagination during a series of reading tours in the early 1950s. Tomorrow, 6:30 p.m., NYPL, Mid-Manhattan branch, 455 Fifth Ave. at 40th Street, 212-340-0849, free.

THEATER

EVOLUTIONARY TALE The Staten Island Shakespearean Theatre Company and the Historic Richmond Town living museum present a staging of “Inherit the Wind,” the 1955 courtroom drama at the Third County Courthouse. “Inherit the Wind,” based largely on the 1925 Scopes trial that wrestled with the teaching of evolution in American schools, tells the story of a public high school teacher, Bert Cates, who is jailed for teaching his students Darwinian instead of creation theory. When the drama was first introduced, some saw it less as a docudrama and more as a commentary on McCarthyism. Thursday–Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m., Historic Richmond Town, Third County Courthouse, 441 Clarke Ave., between St. Patrick’s Place and Arthur Kill Road, Staten Island, 718-351-1611, ext. 245, $20–$25 general, $18 students, reservations required.

CLASSIC CHEKHOV The Classic Stage Company presents Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” about the artistic and romantic conflicts among four characters working in andarounda19th-century theater. Cast members include Alan Cumming and Academy Award-winner Dianne Wiest. Through Sunday, Tuesday–Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m., Classic Stage Company, 136 E. 13th St., between Third and Fourth avenues, 212-677-4210, $70–$75.

PAINTINGS

WATER EVERYWHERE Jeong Julia Lee’s exhibit “Water and Dreams” features paintings that are meditations on the artist’s childhood in South Korea. She uses resin and dried flowers to create a shining effect on her canvases, evoking the reflection of light off water or wind blowing, and also associations with dreams and the subconscious. Selections from the exhibit include “Two Black Trees” (2006), above. The show, which opened last week, has its opening reception Thursday at 6 p.m. Exhibit runs through Saturday, April 26, Thursday–Saturday, noon–6 p.m., New York Studio Gallery, 511 W. 25th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-627-3276, free.

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