GALLI THEATER PRESENTS SHOW FOR ADULTS
The Galli Theater New York, the children’s theater company that uses part of the German School Manhattan as its home base on Warren Street, will present Belladonna, a one-woman play, on Saturday, Oct. 1, at 7:30. The play, by Johannes Galli, is based on the fairytale Rumpelstiltskin, and gives an answer to the question: How can a miller’s daughter become a queen? “This is the dream of Josephine, the character in this play, who tries to become an actress by studying drama at home. She soon discovers how many roles women have to master nowadays, not only on stage but in daily life.” Tickets are here.

COMMUNITY MEDITATION WITH DEEPAK CHOPRA
Deepak Chopra will lead a guided meditation on Oct. 12 at 7p on the roof of Pier 17 along with a conversation with Gabriella Wright, founder of Never Alone, in honor of World Mental Health Day. The event is free but tickets are required.

FRENCHETTE EXPANDS UPTOWN
I am just catching up to this: The duo behind Frenchette (and Frenchette Bakery), Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr, opened Le Rock, a French brasserie, in Rockefeller Center in late July. It’s at 45 Rockefeller Plaza, on 50th between Fifth and Sixth, and has 70 seats on the plaza and 130 inside. They also have another restaurant in the works on Madison.

NICK DAWES AND ZSOFIA SCHWEGER AT SAPAR
Sapar Contemporary is showing Nostalgia, an exhibition of new paintings by Zsofia Schweger (Hungary/UK) and Nick Dawes (UK), and the first project of Dawes’ with the gallery. Schweger’s series depicts an escape from the turbulence of the moment, when she left her home in London in the middle of the pandemic to return to her childhood home in southeast Hungary. Dawes’ paintings begin with quotidian objects connected to signage such as street signs that the artist encounters on his walks. At 9 N. Moore. Tuesday to Saturday, 11a to 5p.