Twelfth Night is performed at Hofstra University's Shakespeare Festival, while Molloy College presents a poetry reading

On Stage

Shakespeare Festival
This is the final weekend to see “Twelfth Night,” the main production at Hofstra’s 61st annual Shakespeare Festival. “Twelfth Night” displays Shakespeare at the top of his form, written immediately after “Hamlet“ and before “Measure for Measure.” Also on Saturday, The Hofstra Shakespeare Festival Musicale presents “The Ideas of Mars,” and a companion play, a “One-Hour Julius Caesar, The Ides of March.” The Festival Musicale is performed by the Hofstra Collegium Musicum.
Friday and Saturday, March 19, and 20; 8 p.m.; Sunday, March 21, 2 p.m. Festival Musicale, Saturday, March 20, 2 p.m. $12; $10 senior and students. Hofstra University’s John Cranford Adams Playhouse, Hempstead. (516) 463-6644.

Poetry Reading
Poet Yolanda Coulaz visits Molloy College this weekend, hosted by writer-in-residence Barbara Novack. Coulaz will discuss her works, followed by an open reading. The award-winning poet is the author of the poetry collection “Spirits and Oxygen,” and the forthcoming “Reckoning.” She also edited and published the poetry anthology “For Loving Precious Beast” to benefit Loving touch Animal Rescue.
Sunday, March 21, 3 p.m. Molloy College's Wilbur Arts Center, Multipurpose Room, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre. (516) 678-5000, ext. 6468.

Family Fun

Japanese Storytelling
Kuniko Yamamoto presents folktales from Japan, in a performance that combines folk songs, original masks, origami, highly stylized movements, and a touch of magic. These stories are selected from the oldest Japanese book of Kojiki. A favorite performer at Disney Epcot Center and the Kennedy Center, Yamamoto’s shows promote cross-cultural communication in an entertaining way.
Sunday, March 21, 1 p.m. $4 with museum admission ($3 members), $8 theater only. Long Island Children’s Museum, Museum Row, Garden City.
(516) 224-5800 or www.licm.org.