Find some new bricks at a LEGO expo, watch as WWE superstars wrestle in Smackdown Live, and see the actions of a reviled king in a Shakespeare tale.
Build it at BrickFair, a LEGO expo on Oct. 29 and 30 at the Garden State Expo Center in Somerset. Find LEGO displays and models, LEGO games and prizes and more -- build with endless bricks in the Stay & Play area. Hours are 11 to 4:30 p.m., both days. Located at 50 Atrium Drive. Admission is $12; free for ages 3 and younger. Visit brickfair.com.
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Steve Martin and Martin Short share "An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life" on Oct. 30 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. The show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $59.50 to $249.50. Visit ticketmaster.com.
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Michael Feinstein brings the music of the Great American Songbook to the Count Basie Theatre on Oct. 30. The 7 p.m. show features the Count Basie Theatre Voices. The theatre is located at 99 Monmouth St., Red Bank. Tickets are $25 to $79. Call (732) 842-9000 or visit countbasietheatre.org.
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"Collage Effects: Art of the African Diaspora" opens Oct. 31 at William Paterson University Galleries in Wayne. Works by six artists, in the East and South Galleries, explore how techniques of collage and assemblage can be a means of rewriting history and reframing identity and representation. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and select Sundays (Nov. 6 and 20, and Dec. 4), from noon 4 to 4 p.m. Opening reception is Nov. 6, from 2 to 4 p.m. Visit wpunj.edu/coac/gallery.
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It's a match made on the mat when Smackdown Live comes to the Prudential Center on Nov. 1. See WWE world champion Dean Ambrose, plus Randy Orton, Bray Wyatt, AJ Styles, intercontinental champion The Miz, Dolph Ziggler, Becky Lynch, Kane, Natalya and more superstars in action, beginning at 7:15 p.m. Tickets start at $20. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.
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The story of bad, bad "Richard III" continues its run through Nov. 6 in Madison. The historical thriller is being staged by the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, 36 Madison Ave., on the campus of Drew University. Tickets are $32 to $75. Call (973) 408-5600 or visit ShakespeareNJ.org.
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What led up to that fateful morning in Dallas in 1963? "Mama's Boy" -- a production at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick through Nov. 6 -- looks at the household in which Lee Harvey Oswald lived and his relationship with his domineering, obsessive mother, Marguerite. Tickets are $43 to $66. Call (732) 246-7717 or visit GSPonline.org.
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"White Lace and Promises: A Century of Weddings" provides a look at matrimonial traditions over the decades. The ongoing exhibit at the Gloucester County Historical Museum, Woodbury, features wedding gowns and accessories from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. Visit gchsnj.org.