New Works Festival

This annual event presents “Describe the Night,” a drama about the 2010 crash of a Polish airplane, followed by “An Entomologist’s Love Story,” an examination of the affairs of researchers at N.Y.’s Museum of Natural History. See website for schedule. “Describe the Night”: 2 p.m. Sunday and 8 p.m. Saturday; “Entomologist’s Love Story”: 8 p.m. Tuesday and noon Saturday. Festival through next Sunday. TheatreWorks at Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. $19. (650) 4631960, www.theatreworks.org.