It’s Saturday. My man Roy Nathanson will be playing sax with The Alphabet Lounge Band on Saturday at Zora Space. Also on Saturday: Mission of Burma at The Bell House. Click on read more for all the essential details.

Movies

This weekend at BAM: True Grit, Kaboom, Black Swan and the Fighter

This weekend at the Pavilion: No Strings Attached, True Grit, The Fighter, The King’s Speech, Tangled, Little Fockers, The Dilemma, Black Swan

This weekend at Cobble Hill Cinema: True Grit, The Fighter, The King’s Speech, Blue Valentine, Somewhere, Black Swan

Theater

This weekend at BAM: John Gabriel Borkman by Ibsen with Fiona Shaw, Alan Rickman, Abbey Theater said to have an amazing set and, of course, stellar acting. And hey, it’s Ibsen, one of the great greats.

This weekend at St. Ann’s: The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church by Daniel Kitson and it’s funny.

This weekend at Gallery Players: The Drowsy Chaperone: Take a spin on our narrator’s turntable and dive into the world of madcap musical mayhem and mischief as the cast album of his favorite Broadway show bursts to life in his living room. It’s the tale of a brazen follies starlet giving up the stage for love, and all the zany guests who’ve gathered for her wedding, including the gin-soaked chaperone assigned to keep a watchful eye, albeit at half-mast, on this motley crew.

Music

Saturday, January 29 at 8PM at Zoraspace: The Alphabet Lounge Band was co-founded in 1999 by Roy Nathanson and Deidre Rodman. It started out as a small group playing jazz at venerated downtown venue The Knitting Factory every Monday night, trying out new material weekly. Gradually friends started joining the ranks, and by 2001 the band had grown in size. It moved from The Knitting Factory to the Alphabet Lounge in the East Village, finally settling at Barbes a few years later.

Saturday, January 29 at Jewish Music Cafe, doors open at 8:30 PM: Merkava and Kol Dodi

Saturday, January 29 at The Bell House at 8PM: Mission Of Burma considered one of the most important American rock bands of the last 20 years. “Strong words, but over the course of their brief four-year career (1979-1983), the band delivered the goods in spades,” says the blurbage. They’re playing with Buke and Gass.

Sunday, January 30 at Barbes at 7PM: Hot Holy Mess is Brooklyn’s own dirty church band. Conceived in a dream that Skye Steele had the night after a near-fatal encounter with a mountain lion in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley last January, the Hot Holy Mess will draw an astral circle around the room within which performers and participants co-mingle in song singing, musical reflection, poetic interjection, and dancing.