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ROSIE O’DONNELL LITERACY BENEFIT. In what’s being billed as her first public appearance since leaving the daytime talk-show racket, Rosie hosts a benefit on March 13 at 3 p.m. at the Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square in Somerville, with readings by local authors Susan Orlean, Alice Hoffman, Jill McCorkle, and Lauren Slater, as well as music by singer-songwriter Catie Curtis. Proceeds go to Somerville’s Arthur D. Healey school. Tickets range from $24.50 to $500; call (617) 931-2000. "LIES, SISSIES, AND FIASCOES: NOTES ON MAKING A NEW KIND OF RADIO." NPR’s Ira Glass shares stories from the trenches of This American Life on April 16 at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. Tickets are $24.50 and $30; call (617) 931-2000. SF30: THE 30th ANNUAL BOSTON SCIENCE FICTION FESTIVAL. In which connoisseurs of such classics as Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers, Superman: The Movie, and the original versions of Godzilla and Invasion of the Body Snatchers wage a war against sleep and good taste while competing in between-films trivia, costume, and "alien mating cry" contests. The 24-hour marathon screening kicks off February 19 at noon at the Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square in Somerville. Tickets are $50; call (617) 625-5700, or visit www.bostonsci-fi.com. THE BIG APPLE CIRCUS in PICTURESQUE. The New York–based one-ringer brings together an international cast of acrobats, jugglers, equestrians, and clowns for a production inspired by such circus chroniclers as Picasso, Renoir, and Degas. April 2 through May 8, the Big Apple sets up under the Big Top in the parking lot of the Bayside Expo Center. Tickets are $13 to $53; call (617) 931-2000. THE SYRINGA TREE. The American Repertory Theatre brings back, by popular demand, the jewel in the crown of its recent South African series. Having sold out a January run, former ART company member Pamela Gien returns with her Obie-winning one-woman/24-character show, which she’s also turned into a novel for Random House and is in the process of making into a screenplay. The show’s back July 15 through August 7 at the Loeb Drama Center, and tickets are $36 to $72; call (617) 547-8300.
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